[Fusioninventory-devel] FuisionInventory Agent GUI

Tue Jun 14 10:58:58 UTC 2011

Dear developers,

Please check the new one from 
https://github.com/pakdel/fusioninventory-agent-gui

It was tested on the following Linuxes:
PCLinuxOS i686, Qt 4.7.3 32-bit
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS i686, Qt 4.6.2 32-bit
Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64, Qt 4.7.2 32-bit
Slackware 13.37 x86_64, Qt 4.7.0 64-bit

Since fusioninventory-agent_windows-i386_2.1.8-2.exe is 13MB, it cannot 
be embedded as a Qt resource in windows as a big chunk! I have even 
tried compiling it without optimization (with -O0 option of the 
compiler) on a 64bit version of Windows 7 with 6GB of RAM an I got the 
following error:
cc1plus.exe: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes.

Any idea? any suggestion?

IMO fusioninventory-agent_windows-i386_2.1.8-2.exe needs a command-line 
parameter to set the installation folder.
If installation path of the agent can not be specified during 
installation via command line, the "Files and Folders" tab can be 
removed However, if the option of local agent execution on Linux systems 
is kept, this tab might
come in handy).

Le 06/04/2011 09:03 PM, Amir Pakdel a écrit :
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org 
> <mailto:goneri at rulezlan.org>> wrote:
>
>     2011/5/31 Amir Pakdel <a.pakdel at karafarinbank.net
>     <mailto:a.pakdel at karafarinbank.net>>:
>     > Dear developers,
>     >
>     > Please check the new version. Here is a summary of changes:
>     >
>     > "Remote Unix / Linux Host" radio button is disabled (but still
>     there). IMHO
>     > it would inform the user that this is not supported.
>     > Embedded "fusioninventory-agent_windows-i386_2.1.8-2.exe",
>     > "winexe-static-081123" and "PsExec.exe" into the agentWizard
>     executable.
>     > They can be easily replaced by any other executable: merely need
>     to be
>     > aliased as "inst-win.exe", "winexe" and "psexec.exe" in the
>     > "FusionInventory.qrc" resource.
>     >
>     > This version does installation on a remote Windows Host from a
>     Linux (when
>     > executed on a Linux, it can install FusionInventory on a remote
>     Windows
>     > host) without requiring any files other than the "agentWizard"
>     itself.
>     Here, on my Linux, I get "Could not copy the embedded winexe file
>     into a
>     regular file".
>     The process failed to start. Either the invoked program is
>     missing, or you
>     may have insufficient permissions to invoke the program.
>
> I was on vacation. I will look into the source code again tomorrow and 
> I will
> try to generate better error messages.
>
>
>     I also think the "Local Host" option should be turned off since I
>     run Linux.
>
> It can be easily done but IMHO keeping the option of local agent execution
> on Linux systems might be beneficial.
>
>
>     Is it possible to declare a network range of machine? Is it possible
>     to use nmap to find the Windows host on the network? It's maybe
>     over complicated.
>
> I would keep a TODO list :)
This one accepts the following forms of remote windows host(s):

    * Single host name: test.mycompany.com
    * Single host IP: 192.168.1.17
    * IP list: 192.168.1.16, 192.168.1.17, 192.168.1.18
    * IP range: 192.168.1.16 - 192.168.1.18
    * Network specified by subnet: 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0
    * Network specified by CIDR: 192.168.1.0 / 24

As result, the following is a valid value for "Host(s)" in "Remote host 
to be inventoried":
test.mycompany.com, 10.10.2.26, 10.10.3.167, 192.168.1.0 / 
255.255.255.0, 192.168.3.0 / 24

Or even you can leave it to the application to sweep your entire subnet 
by selecting "Try the entire network subnet". If you have these network 
interfaces:
eth0    inet addr:10.10.1.37  Bcast:10.10.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
eth0:1    inet addr:10.10.2.37  Bcast:10.10.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
eth1    inet addr:10.10.3.37  Bcast:10.10.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
lo     inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

It would be the same as specifying the following as "Host(s)":
10.10.1.37/24, 10.10.2.37/24, 10.10.3.37/24,
The trailing "," would be ignored.
>
>
>     > As a result, installation tab is removed completely.
>     > Now I am going to implement installation on a remote Windows
>     Host from a
>     > windows.
>     I think the "Files and Filders" tab can be removed too since we
>     don't use
>     it.
>
> If installation path of the agent can not be specified during 
> installation via
> command line, this "Files and Filders" tab can be removed. Moreover, if
> the option of local agent execution on Linux systems is kept, this tab 
> might
> come in handy.
>
>
>     Some of the messages need to be clarified. I suggest these changes:
>
>     "Server" tab → "Installation target"
>     "Local Host" → Install the agent on this system
>     "Remote Windows Host" → Install the agent on a remote Windows Host
>     using the RPC Service interface and the $Admin share (PsExec).
>     "Cancel" and "Perform Inventory" button location should be
>     switched and
>     "Perform Inventory" should be in bold
>
>     Changes on the "FusionInventory Server" should only used during
>     the installation
>     and not be stored locally.
>
> Do you mean that the agent should be run with default settings, without
> command line arguments?
>
>
>     Any opinion?
>
>     What you are doing here is just great and will quickly be a much
>     better alternative to
>     the NSIS installer interface.
>
> I would be glad to do useful things :)

Best regards,

Amir Pakdel
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