---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Using OCS Inventory in Debian Edu? Date: Sunday 13 July 2008 18:39 From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> To: debian-edu@lists.debian.org The last few weeks, the ocsinventory packages has been installed by default in the Lenny based Debian Edu. This is because it was recommended by the admins in Extremadura, as a possible replacement for sitesummary. There are a few issues that need to be resolved before this can be part of the final release: - The server is impossible to install automatically using debian-installer. It require mysql to be _running_ at install time, and d-i do not allow any daemons to start in /target/ during installation. Reported to the maintainer as #489461. - How should the clients locate the server? I suspect we want a new service name DNS alias, a SRV record or some broadcast method to find it, to avoid hardcoding setup on the clients. Any suggestions? We use 'sitesummary' as the DNS alias for the sitesummary collector. Perhaps 'ocsinventory' as a DNS alias is good enough? At the moment the client ask for the server name because no preseeding is done to set it. I want to keep it that way until we find a solution, to make sure we do not forget the issue. If no solution to the installation issue is found, we need to drop the package from the default installation. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------
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