[Fusioninventory-devel] Rest-*

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:26:49PM +0100, Mario Gzuk wrote:
> Hopefully the last question about that task. If I run the fusioninventory-esx
> directly I got an correct deviceid for each host:
>   <DEVICEID>esx1-2013-02-11-14-23-51</DEVICEID>
>   <DEVICEID>esx2-2013-02-11-14-25-32</DEVICEID>
> If I run this through the agent/rest-esx the inventory xml data contains the
> deviceid from the host I am running the task (for every esx host the same):
>   <DEVICEID>a-test-2013-03-21-16-54-58</DEVICEID>
Hi Mario,

Actually, none of them are correct. The deviceid is a string stored on the
computer. It is used to identify the agent. This string is:

- the hostname
- the installation date.

We can store the string on a ESX server. In order to reduce compatibility
issue we decide to generate a “fake” string every time.

This deviceid will also be lost for a common computer is the agent is
removed (and the “var” dir lost).

Best regards,
--
     Gonéri Le Bouder
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