[Fusioninventory-devel] FuisionInventory Agent GUI

[Amir Pakdel]

Le 05/25/2011 07:47 PM, Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> Le 25/05/2011 11:09, Amir Pakdel a écrit :
>>>> So, I don't have objection (that's your time after all), but I don't
>>>> think the added value is worth the development effort. Agent
>>>> configuration and deploiement could be made easier, indeed, but I don't
>>>> think fancy GUIs (especially in native code) will help very much here.
> Hi Amir and Guillaume,
>
> While I'm sure this remote installation feature will be
> useful for Windows, I've a mixed filling regarding
> Linux/Windows/MacOSX.
> There is a lot of reason this can be a real mess:
> 1) wrong prebuilt package for a given host
> 2) wrong OS detection
> 3) corrupted file
> 4) not supported remote ssh server
> 5) etc
>
> Instead of doing this tricky thing, I think is would be more
> simple to add a remote inventory option. Something like.
> ./fusioninventory-agent --remote-host=XXXX --remote-login=root --remote-pw=root
> There is a security issue here since every users will be able
> to catch the password with a "ps" call. We should use STDIN or
> a file to pass the credential. It's just to show the big picture :)
>
> Guillaume told he believe this can be done easily thanks to the
> serious command execution clean-up he did.
>
> Regarding the interface, I tend to believe we should create a
> fusioninventory-agent-(win32?)-remote-installer project just
> to maintain this part of the code and keep the fusioninventory-agent-gui
> source tree alone? This is two very different feature.
>
> Today we generate our packages for Windows using
> NSIS on Linux. This is very useful since we just need a tag
> to generate a new release. This since to be doable for QT two:
> http://clam-project.org/wiki/Devel/Windows_MinGW_cross_compile#Crosscompiling_with_Qt
> In this case we will be able to generate a .zip file with
> the current agent and the fusioninventory-agent-remote-installer
> binary for Windows.
> Maybe I'm on crack but I wonder if it would be possible to
> embed the fusioninventory-agent-win32 installer within the
> fusioninventory-agent-remote-installer binary during the
> build process? :D This way we would be able to drop one of
> the settings tab of the GUI and so, reduce the complexity.
It seems to me that everybody agrees upon one thing: Remote 
UNIX/Linux/MacOSX agent execution/Installation would not be useful. In 
fact, this GUI is for Windows based systems.