[Fusioninventory-devel] Rest-*

[Mario Gzuk]

Am 25.03.2013 16:24, schrieb 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
>

So why there is no "fake" deviceid generated for each esx host when I 
run this through the agent? It differs when I run:
perl fusioninventory-esx --host bla -> 
<DEVICEID>bla-2013-02-11-14-23-51</DEVICEID>
perl fusioninventory-agent (it gets the jobs via rest-esx) the xml gets 
the <DEVICEID>a-test-2013-03-21-16-54-58</DEVICEID>
both commands are running on the same host.

This is a little bit confusing to me, because I try to manage the data 
to the device id -> if a new one is generated a new set of data is 
generated. But in this case I have got 3 different inventory data (2 
from esx hosts and one from the host itself) to the same device id...

On which identifier you check that? The host name? Or is the 
hardware:UUID every time the same?

Thank you for your time to answer my questions...

Cheers Mario