[Fusioninventory-user] Doubts about FusionInventory Agent 2.2.0 options

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 16/05/2012 09:06, Tomas Abad a écrit :
>     Hello to everybody,
>
>     I'm trying to write a new Microsoft Windows Installer for
> FusionInventory Agent 2.2.0-x and above with NSIS (1) -see notes below-,
> ExperienceUI (2), InstallOptions 2 (3) and others, like the current
> installer, although perhaps it would be better to create it with NSIS +
> ModernUI 2 (4) + nsDialog (5) because InstallOptions 2 is currently
> deprecated.
>
>     Studying the FusionInventory Agent 2.2.0 parameters (6) raised me
> some doubts. They are as follows.
>
>     a) The official manual for FusionInventory Agent 2.2.0 (6) indicates
>        in its SYNOPSIS about the 'backend-collect-timeout' option:
>
>        --backend-collect-timeout
>             timeout for inventory modules execution (30)
>
>        I suppose 30 (seconds) is its default value but I had news
>        yesterday that this value is 180 seconds and not 30.
>
>        a.1) What is the correct value?
30, as defined in FusionInventory::Agent::Config. When in doubt, check 
the code :)

>     b) I suppose the embedded web server (no-httpd, httpd-ip, httpd-port,
>        and httpd-trust options) requires to work that the agent is
>        launched as a daemon process or as a Microsoft Windows Service,
>        Am I right?
Right. We refer to both cases as 'server mode', BTW, and we're still 
looking for an adequate term for the opposition situation, if you have 
suggestions.

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