Revision history for Ocsinventory::Agent
0.0.9 04/01/2008 April Fool release!
* Added fallback for --lazy if no prolog freq was found and server error (Pascal DANEK)
* Fixed accountinfos handling bugs (Pascal DANEK)
* Changed --wait behaviour (--wait=number_of_seconds || "server") (Pascal DANEK)
* PROLOG_FREQ is handled in prolog phase (Pascal DANEK)
* the random value for file_nexttime is computed only if prolog_freq has changed since last prolog (Pascal DANEK)
* import the documentation documentation by adding a description of the
agent and pointer to the official website
* --nosoft option renamed to --nosoftware, --nosoft still works but with a warning
* add --basevardir to be able to use a specific place to store the var file
* add the --lazy parameter: send an inventory only if the a random delay between 0 and PROLOG_FREQ had been run over. Usefull for package maintainer (Remi COLLET)
* return 1 to the shell is the agent failed to contact the server
* postinst.pl asks for the basevardir
* postinst.pl write the modules.conf
* OS::Linux::Network::Networks, correctly reset the ipaddress before every loop so
now a network can't have the address of the previous one
* rename the key $params->{conffile} to $params->{accountconfig}
* fix the way accountinfo information are stored
* improve (a bit) tools/standalone.sh to avoid error if people launch it
from the tools directory
* --server is ignore if --local is in use
* adjust Backend::OS::Generic::Screen to be able to use monitor-edid with DVI link (Remi COLLET)
* OS::Linux::Storages, add NEC as a know manufacturer add assume the manifacturer is Seagate if
the model doesn't match the others and begin with ST (rjhill)
* fix the CPU detection on Linux Sparc64 and ARM (Linksys NSLU2)
* improve the Solaris version detection by reading the /etc/release file (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
* Solaris: fix the MAC addresses when the leading zeros is missing (Jean-Jacques MICHEL)
* Solaris: Add publisher is possible in the software list (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
* Solaris: improve the hard drive detection (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
* postinst.pl can remove the previous linux_agent
* postinst.pl reuse linux_agent old config file to set the default server and tag
* return the SERIALNUMBER and the FIRMWARE on Linux with hdparm, the feature is not supported
yet by the server (egamin)
0.0.8.1 02/20/2008
* postinst.pl, correctly save the realm, do not override the password
* Added "CAPTION" field to memory (Pascal DANEK)
* Fix a bug with "NUMSLOTS" memory field (Pascal DANEK)
* improve the parsing of the config file to accept quote and spaces in the value
* postinst.pl save the configfile with 0600 right since the server
password maybe be stored in it
* standalone.sh doesn't scan the inc/ directory anymore
* remove the BUNDLE packages which seem to break the install process
* change Solaris::CPU to use psrinfo -v to get the CPUs which works fine on x86
* fix a path error in Ocsinventory::LoggerBackend::File (Remi COLLET)
* fix: don't send the inventory if the server doesn't need it (Remi COLLET)
0.0.8 02/05/2008
* fix the deviceid and old_deviceid handling (Pascal DANEK)
* fix a debug message in Network.pm (Pascal DANEK)
* different fixes on Compress.pm (Pascal DANEK)
* fix an event message name in Option/Download.pm (Pascal DANEK)
* fix the Compatibility Layer with prolog_read hook (Pascal DANEK)
* merge PowerPC and PC code to detect the CPU and improve/fix the regex
* looks for config file in /etc/ocsinventory /usr/local/etc/ocsinventory and
/etc/ocsinventory-agent
* add a pod documentation about the different config files and directories
* Compress::Zlib is required but recommended now. In fact, you need it with
ocs server prior 1.02
0.0.7.2 01/16/2008
* fix the post installation script to avoid invalid cron time
0.0.7.1 01/14/2008
* add setup.sh in the MANIFEST.SKIP to keep it out of the tarball
0.0.7 01/13/2008
* Ocsinventory::Agent::AccountInfo does not warn accountinfofile if runned in debug mode
without root privilege
* fix params->{etcdir} to /etc/ocsinventory, /etc/ocsinventory-agent/modules.conf must be moved
to /etc/ocsinventory/modules.conf
* Solaris: Improve the CPU detection (Olivier ROUSSY)
* AIX: Return the directory with the AIX package name (Olivier ROUSSY)
* Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Inventory can now write software inventory
value of FILESIZE, FOLDER and PUBLISHER
* processChecksum() and feedInventory() are called by Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Inventory
directly now
* the server responses are not parsed in the main script anymore
* do not create an inventory if the server doesnn't need it
* new parameters for the backend modules (run and check functions):
- prologresp, the Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Response::Prolog object returned by
the prolog
- storage: an hashref stored on the harddrive at the end of the execution of the module
* a backend module without a run function is accepted now
* Inventory.pm: add addIpDiscoverEntry() to add host from the same network
* @runMeIfTheseChecksFailed: new optional setting for Backend module
* Ipdiscover is now a backend module and nmap can be used instead of ipdiscover
* --nosoft disable the Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::Generic::Packaging modules
* Remove the deprecated modules Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Ipdiscover and
Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Update
* the check function of the backend accepts the same parameter than the run function
* Linux::Archs::I386 regex are more robust
* perldoc documentation for the ocsinventory-agent command
* minor improvment on the Makefile.PL
* change the way --server parameter is read. Now we can have a full URL, --remotedir
is now useless
* fix: correctly load the last_state
* improve the Makefile.PL by using inc::Module::Install and adding new check
* add a --version parameter and improve the --help
* come with bundled dependency to simply the build process
* fix the login/passwd/realm authentification
* remove Agent/Pid.pm, I've to prepare a better system to keep the pid first
* try to read the config in /usr/local/etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg if the
standard one is missing
0.0.6.2 07/16/2007 Bug fix release
* remove a debug "die" in the code
0.0.6.1 06/12/2007 Bug fix release
* Fix an undef value in Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::BSD::Mem
* AIX: retrieve correctly the MAC address of some FibberChannel card
* now standalone.sh will try to find every module before the build to
avoid unexplicated error
0.0.6 06/07/2007
* Enable "verbose" is debug is turned on
* AIX: Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::AIX::Networks rewrote
* AIX: Memory.pm, remove the spaces from the end of the DESCRIPTION
* add standalone.sh, a script designed to prepare a stand-alone binary of the agent
* AIX: Retrieve all the gateway of every subnet instead of just the default one
* Config.pm renamed to AccountConfig.pm
* New flag: --stdout to print the inventory directly on STDOUT
* If the use want write on the system var directory, the agent create one in
~/.ocsinventory/var
* The agent setting can be preinitialised with /etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg or
~/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg.
* remove two debug messages printed during accountinfo rewrite and the
daemon starting process
* remove a stupid check in Ocsinventory::Agent::AccountConfig, the
accountconfig file was not written unless the file was already present
* add a recMkdir function in ocsinventory-agent to create directory recursivly
* do not process checksum in local mode
0.0.5 04/17/2007
* AIX: use lslpp -c -l to find installed packages
* AIX: fixes on CPU.pm, Networks.pm and Memory.pm
* AIX: fetch the serial number with lscfg unless it was found with lsvpd
* add the .ocs extension to local written files
* with --local flag: don't not warn if last_state doesn't exit
* Solaris: retrieve installed package
* downgrade some message important from info to debug
* read screen serial number in the EDID (DDC screen)
* Xorg.pm replaced by Screen.pm
* Screen.pm all the data are read from EDID now
* Initial Linux PPC support (tested in Debian Etch).
thanks Walid Nouh for the hardware
* Apply patch by Remi Collet to fix an issue with Linux distro detection and Perl 5.6.1
* Turn of STDERR during the module execution to avoid useless message (e.g: foo: not found)
use --debug to turn them back
* If the system side vardir can't be created. The agent try to create one in ~/.ocs-inventory-agent
* Add a THANKS file
0.0.4 03/20/2007
* use of gzip when Compress:Zlib is not avalaible. OCS server 1.01 and
prior are not supported.
* dmidecode parsing improved
* lspci stuffs moved to generic
* Linux: find Wifi connection
* fix: pass correctly the logger to the modules
* don't write the last_state is the connexion failed
* Deals correctly with the accountinfo if it's internaly stored in a
array ref
* BSD support by Thierry Lacoste