Revision history for Ocsinventory::Agent

futur

• Can use Net::CUPS to find the default printer
• AIX: Hide procfs in Filesystem
• OS::Linux::Storages, correctly retrieve the serial (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• load $http_proxy env settings and --proxy option is available
• Add OS::Linux::Distro::NonLSB::ArchLinux (Julien SAFAR)
• New Backend OS::Generic::Processes
• Linux/BSD: detect DNS servers config
• Solaris: Better output for $OSVErsion (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• Solaris: Sun Fire T1000 patches for memory (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• Solaris: memory SPARC Enterprise T5220 (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• Solaris: CPU SPARC Enterprise T5220 (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• Solaris: CPU SPARC Enterprise T5220 (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• Linux: split the /proc/cpuinfo parsing depending on the arch
• Linux: drop Linux::Controllers which is duplicated with Generic::Lspci::Controllers (Vladimir ELISSEEV)
• AIX: Various fixes in Memory.pm (Sebastien DAGNICOURT)
• AIX: Storages.pm, Virtual disks support and fixes (Sebastien DAGNICOURT)
• Backend.pm: Bump the default timeout from 30 to 180 secondes
• Agent/XML/Inventory: Fix when version == 0, bug found by neisen
• AIX: device type adjustment (Sebastien DAGNICOURT)
• Solaris: Sun-Fire-V440 support (Sebastien DAGNICOURT)
• Add a missing space is the name banner in --debug mode
• Agent/XML/Inventory.pm: Add FROM and INSTALLDATE fields in software list and LASTLOGGEDUSER DATELASTLOGGEDUSER in HARDWARE (Nicolas EISEN)
• Initialize etcdir key even if there is no config file
• CompatibilityLayer: correctly set $debug
• CompatibilityLayer: better log messages
• getOptionInfoByName return an array ref now
• rename getOptionInfoByName to getOptionsInfoByName
• --debug print the XML on STDERR
• Rename the params key to config to avoid ambiguity with $params
• set HARDWARE/DEFAULTGATEWAY (Nicolas EISEN)
• RPM: collect the install date and the size (Nicolas EISEN)
• Linux: Collect LASTLOGGEDUSER and DATELASTLOGGEDUSER (Nicolas EISEN)
• DPKG: collect the Installed-Size (Nicolas EISEN)
• Linux: Collect the ext{2,3,4} and xfs serial number
• Linux: Collect the ext{2,3,4} creation date
• Add a warning when no certificat is found
• Turns off alarm once it's backend run is finish
• Fix the IPMI module detection
• Linux: Store the PCISLOT and the driver name
• NETWORKDS, only store Networks with an address
• Linux: detect virtual network device
• Linux: Store CONTROLLERS/DRIVER and CONTROLLERS/PCISLOT
• Linux: Collects xfs, ext{2,3,4} and vfat label
• runs the backend module from main() it's possible to reuse the Backend object.
• Linux: filter non standard MAC address returned by ifconfig like 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 mac
• Linux: Fix the Uptime check()
• Preliminary libvirt support
• Partial rewrite of the Download.pm backend
• Add a warning if the user is no root, thanks Nicolas EISEN and Sylvain LUCE
• SPARC-Enterprise M4000 and M5000 support (Sylvain LUCE)
• Libvirt: collect VCPU info (Philippe LIBAT)
• Add Virtualization::Xen module (Philippe LIBAT)
• Solaris: add a warning if memconf is not in $PATH
• Switch the XML content from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, BTW we force LC_ALL=C...
• Fix the history flood in Download.pm (Pascal DANEK) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2806585&group_id=58373&atid=487492
• Stores PCIID in CONTROLLERS/PCIID
• Storage the monitor EDID string in BASE64 and UUENCODE
• Linux: Storages: reorganize the code base and use lshal
• Linux: Drives, complete inforamtions with lshal (Nicolas EISEN)
• Linux: fix the PowerPC CPU detection https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487492&aid=2043221&group_id=58373
• Warns the user during the install process if one of the recommended module is not installed
• Update out copy of memconf, thanks WeatherDave who notified the new revision and of course Tom Schmidt who do a great job
• MacOSX: Avoid a scalar used has hash ref error, thanks Adadov
• Save VIDEOS/MEMORY and VIDEOS/RESOLUTION
• MacOSX: Correctilly detect Up/Down network interfaces (David OLIVIER)
• AddNetwork() doesn't ignore network with no IP address (David OLIVIER)
• add --backend-collect-timeout parameter (Nicolas EISEN)
• MacOSX: convert the IP mask from hex (David OLIVIER)
• MacOSX: add a workaround to avoid Mac::SysProfile failure on MacOSX 10.5.7 (David OLIVIER)
• Add Virtualization::VirtualBox module (Nicolas EISEN)
• Add Virtualization::Qemu module (Nicolas EISEN)
• Add Virtualization::Vmsystem module (Nicolas EISEN)
• Better smartctl detection (Nicolas EISEN)
• optimization and vm users detection Virtualization::VirtualBox (Nicolas EISEN)
• Add Virtualization::VmwareFusion module (Walid NOUH)
• Don't use hdparm prior 9.2.2 anymore to avoid crap in kernel log, see http://forums.ocsinventory-ng.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20768
• Correctly detect ipmitool
• Solaris: i86pc Memory support (Jean-François BOUCHER)
• Solaris Zone support (Maurizio BERTABONI)
• Always send tag, even if server already has one
• Add the byHand software collect method (Sébastien DAGNICOURT)
• add logging to can_read(), can_load() and can_run()
• use addUser() instead of setHardware()
• Add the runcmd() in the Backend modules
• Move Ocsinventory::Agent in a .pm and add a wrapper script to load it in order to fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ocsinventory-unix-agent/+bug/426812

1.0.1 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:48:49 +0100

• Fix a typo in Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::AIX::Memory

1.0 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:14:26 +0100

• Hide warning messages when tw_cli or hpacucli are not present on CentOS
• Avoid unnecessary about missing 'http://' in local mode
• Ipmi.pm: use can_run do detect ipmitool
• LSB.pm: properly use can_run
• Avoid a warning in CompatibilityLayer.pm in local mode
• Improve the README file
• Avoid a warning at runtime if rpm is not correctly installed
• BSD: Detect AMD64 arch (David DURIEUX)
• HP.pm: force detection even if slot 1 is 0 (Remi COLLET)
• HP.pm minor clean up + indentation
• HP.pm send the $model as NAME to avoid NAME == 'unknown' (Remi COLLET)
• New backend module ServeRaid for IBM ServeRAID card (Remi COLLET)
• Linux::Storages, fix the hdparm call (Remi COLLET)
• OS::Generic::Dmidecode::Bios, fix for RHEL2 dmidecode (Remi COLLET)
• launch backend modules with a 30sec timeout
• post-inst.pl: use prompt() from ExtUtils::MakeMaker to avoid unexpected error with cpan
• avoid the "No LSB modules are available." warning message
• Backend: --debug print a warning when arun() function is not found
• Fix the Debian/Ubuntu detection for non lsb system
• postinst.pl also drop /etc/cron.d/ocsinventory-client is the user want to drop the old linux_agent
• Backend::OS::Solaris::Memory: use the Logger instead of "print"
• Solaris: Drop unwanted spaces around OSVERSION and STORAGES/DESCRIPTION
• Solaris: Avoid warning is the user can't use fstyp
• MANIFEST.SKIP: ignore .git/ and .gitignore
• add a workaround for http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38067
• build-perl-tree.sh use cpanp and perl 5.10 now
• Backend.pm: do a eval around require File::Find
• Add a workaround to find the backend modules for PAR::Packer
• Backend.pm: internal change, now do eval 'use $pmodule' instead of require
• fix serialnum detection in Lsilogic.pm and Adaptec.pm (Edouard GAMIN)
• Makefile.PL: drop wait(), not used
• Makefile.PL: fix a syntax error
• add tools/makedist.sh to document the workaround used to avoid http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=43060
• Fix --logfile=/somewhere.log, see http://forums.ocsinventory-ng.org/viewtopic.php?id=3092
• tools/build-perl-tree.sh, add a new script
• Don't print ugly error if next_timefile can't be saved
• OS::Linux::Domains, improve the way it deals with multiple domaine entries (Remi COLLET)
• AIX: Record the last memory Slot (Wilfried BRUNKEN) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487492&aid=2350694&group_id=58373
• Bump 0.0.10 to 1.0 because it's the first release to be officially part of the OCSInventory distribution

0.0.10beta2 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:41:21 +0200

• README: add a not about the $PATH varible on Solaris.
• Added extra section support for backends (Pascal DANEK)
• Fix the way submodules are disabled with $runMeIfTheseChecksFailed
• Linux: Use lsb_release if presents to detect the OS, this will fix the Ubuntu detection
• Hide a Perl warning if the agent is run by the user want the last_state file is missing
• Add Ipmi backend module (Jean PARPAILLON)
• Drop the control characters from the inventory XML https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2100606&group_id=58373&atid=487492
• Apply a little change in standalone.sh that may fix the ParserDetails.ini problem, thanks tharoun

0.0.10beta1 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:16:49 +0200

• Fix a "ocs server name" => URI side effect (Pascal DANEK)
• Download::Store: used absolute path to "cp" on STORE action (Pascal DANEK)
• Download::Store: set -dpR flags to "cp" (Pascal DANEK)
• Solaris: Replaced hostid in serialnumber by real serialnumber (Nicolas DORFSMAN)

  (SUNWsneep becomes mandatory on sparc)

• Solaris: Return only one IP address (trying to guess which one corresponds to hostname) (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
• Solaris: return disks SERIALNUMBER and FIRMWARE as XML fields (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
• Redirection and stderr issue on Solaris (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
  • Removed close of stderr fd
  • Modified lspci and screen check() to avoid pollution of stdout/stderr
• fix the previous changelog entry, the 0.0.9.1 fix had been done by Nicolas DORFSMAN
• postinst.pl checks for MANIFEST present
• improve the backend module detection by also scanning the symlinked directory
• add the --devlib flag to load ./lib only if wanted and remove '.' from the directory to scan with File::Find.
• import the can_run, can_load and can_read functions in the Backend modules
• the backend module can have no check function, in this case OCS assume it's ok
• apply a patch by Etienne GUILLAUMONT to fix CPU detection on AIX 4
• standalone.sh checks PAR::Packer presence now
• only inventory installed .deb
• postinst.pl: accept another vardir if the first one was invalide https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487492&aid=1961771&group_id=58373
• postinst.pl Download.pm correctly actived in modules.conf is the user needs it
• add MacOSX support thanks to Wes YOUNG (Wes YOUNG)
  • Added tools/darwin/ support scripts/code for OS X enterprise deployment
• add the follow_skip==2 flag to File::Find in Backend.pm so it doesn't detect the same file two time
• import of backend module for RAID controler on Linux (3ware, Adaptec, HP and Lsilogic) (Edouard GAMIN)
• remove a warning in Debug mod, if a backend module has no run() function
• don't crash in Daemon mode if the server is unreachable (Wes YOUNG)
• Net::IP is just (strongly) suggested now
• fix --basevardir so it really accepts a parameter, thanks Gubluts from the forum who pointed out the bug
• postinst.pl use which to find ocsinventory-agent location
• Makefile.PL, Perl 5.6 doesn't have Config::config_re, I call it from an eval now
• Added --delaytime option as commandline / .cfg file adjustable (Wes YOUNG)
• standalone.sh, don't use grep -v since it's not POSIX
• doesn't die if Storable.pm is missing like with perl 5.6
• avoid a warning with gzip -h on AIX if Compress::Zlib is missing
• README: depends on Perl 5.8
• README: On solaris the Makefile needs gmake
• README: Add a note about crontab and PATH
• Linux: redirect hdparm error to /dev/null
• postinst.pl yes/no questions have a default value now
• postinst.pl fix a bug in the import of the old ocsinv.adm https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1991668&group_id=58373&atid=487492
• postinst.pl doesn't create two vardir directories anymore
• do not print a wrning is --nosoftware is used. Thanks Knarfling and Remi who pointed the issue out. http://forums.ocsinventory-ng.org/viewtopic.php?pid=12569
• fix the POD documentation, some mistakes were detected by Perl 5.10's perldoc.
• the agent doesn't crash anymore if ocsinv.adm or ocsinv.conf is corrupted
• Makefile.pl: install memconf on Solaris
• Solaris: apply patches to use memconf for CPU, Drives and Memory (Christoph HALMES)

0.0.9.2 04/18/2008 Bug fix

• Add /ocsinventory in the server path if the user enter just the hostname https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487492&aid=1945865&group_id=58373

0.0.9.1 04/03/2008 Bug fix

• fix a error in the previous release that was forcing the local mode (Nicolas DORFSMAN) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487492&aid=1945863&group_id=58373

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