Revision history for Ocsinventory::Agent

0.0.9 04/01/2008 April Fool release!
       * Added fallback for --lazy if no prolog freq was found and server error (Pascal DANEK)
       * Fixed accountinfos handling bugs (Pascal DANEK)
       * Changed --wait behaviour (--wait=number_of_seconds || "server") (Pascal DANEK)
       * PROLOG_FREQ is handled in prolog phase (Pascal DANEK)
       * the random value for file_nexttime is computed only if prolog_freq has changed since last prolog (Pascal DANEK)
       * import the documentation documentation by adding a description of the
         agent and pointer to the official website
       * --nosoft option renamed to --nosoftware, --nosoft still works but with a warning
       * add --basevardir to be able to use a specific place to store the var file
       * add the --lazy parameter: send an inventory only if the a random delay between 0 and PROLOG_FREQ had been run over. Usefull for package maintainer (Remi COLLET)
       * return 1 to the shell is the agent failed to contact the server
       * postinst.pl asks for the basevardir
       * postinst.pl write the modules.conf 
       * OS::Linux::Network::Networks, correctly reset the ipaddress before every loop so
         now a network can't have the address of the previous one
       * rename the key $params->{conffile} to $params->{accountconfig}
       * fix the way accountinfo information are stored
       * improve (a bit) tools/standalone.sh to avoid error if people launch it
         from the tools directory
       * --server is ignore if --local is in use
       * adjust Backend::OS::Generic::Screen to be able to use monitor-edid with DVI link (Remi COLLET)
       * OS::Linux::Storages, add NEC as a know manufacturer add assume the manifacturer is Seagate if
         the model doesn't match the others and begin with ST (rjhill)
       * fix the CPU detection on Linux Sparc64 and ARM (Linksys NSLU2)
       * improve the Solaris version detection by reading the /etc/release file (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
       * Solaris: fix the MAC addresses when the leading zeros is missing (Jean-Jacques MICHEL)
       * Solaris: Add publisher is possible in the software list (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
       * Solaris: improve the hard drive detection (Nicolas DORFSMAN)
       * postinst.pl can remove the previous linux_agent
       * postinst.pl reuse linux_agent old config file to set the default server and tag
       * return the SERIALNUMBER and the FIRMWARE on Linux with hdparm, the feature is not supported
         yet by the server (egamin)

0.0.8.1 02/20/2008
       * postinst.pl, correctly save the realm, do not override the password 
       * Added "CAPTION" field to memory (Pascal DANEK)
       * Fix a bug with "NUMSLOTS" memory field (Pascal DANEK)
       * improve the parsing of the config file to accept quote and spaces in the value
       * postinst.pl save the configfile with 0600 right since the server
         password maybe be stored in it
       * standalone.sh doesn't scan the inc/ directory anymore
       * remove the BUNDLE packages which seem to break the install process
       * change Solaris::CPU to use psrinfo -v to get the CPUs which works fine on x86
       * fix a path error in Ocsinventory::LoggerBackend::File (Remi COLLET)
       * fix: don't send the inventory if the server doesn't need it (Remi COLLET)

0.0.8 02/05/2008
       * fix the deviceid and old_deviceid handling (Pascal DANEK)
       * fix a debug message in Network.pm (Pascal DANEK)
       * different fixes on Compress.pm (Pascal DANEK)
       * fix an event message name in Option/Download.pm (Pascal DANEK)
       * fix the Compatibility Layer with prolog_read hook (Pascal DANEK)
       * merge PowerPC and PC code to detect the CPU and improve/fix the regex
       * looks for config file in /etc/ocsinventory /usr/local/etc/ocsinventory and
         /etc/ocsinventory-agent
       * add a pod documentation about the different config files and directories
       * Compress::Zlib is required but recommended now. In fact, you need it with
         ocs server prior 1.02

0.0.7.2 01/16/2008
       * fix the post installation script to avoid invalid cron time

0.0.7.1 01/14/2008
       * add setup.sh in the MANIFEST.SKIP to keep it out of the tarball

0.0.7 01/13/2008
       * Ocsinventory::Agent::AccountInfo does not warn accountinfofile if runned in debug mode
         without root privilege
       * fix params->{etcdir} to /etc/ocsinventory, /etc/ocsinventory-agent/modules.conf must be moved
         to /etc/ocsinventory/modules.conf
       * Solaris: Improve the CPU detection (Olivier ROUSSY)
       * AIX: Return the directory with the AIX package name (Olivier ROUSSY)
       * Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Inventory can now write software inventory
         value of FILESIZE, FOLDER and PUBLISHER
       * processChecksum() and feedInventory() are called by Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Inventory
         directly now
       * the server responses are not parsed in the main script anymore
       * do not create an inventory if the server doesnn't need it
       * new parameters for the backend modules (run and check functions):
         - prologresp, the Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Response::Prolog object returned by
	   the prolog
	 - storage: an hashref stored on the harddrive at the end of the execution of the module
       * a backend module without a run function is accepted now 
       * Inventory.pm: add addIpDiscoverEntry() to add host from the same network
       * @runMeIfTheseChecksFailed: new optional setting for Backend module
       * Ipdiscover is now a backend module and nmap can be used instead of ipdiscover
       * --nosoft disable the Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::Generic::Packaging modules
       * Remove the deprecated modules Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Ipdiscover and
            Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Update
       * the check function of the backend accepts the same parameter than the run function
       * Linux::Archs::I386 regex are more robust
       * perldoc documentation for the ocsinventory-agent command
       * minor improvment on the Makefile.PL
       * change the way --server parameter is read. Now we can have a full URL, --remotedir
         is now useless
       * fix: correctly load the last_state
       * improve the Makefile.PL by using inc::Module::Install and adding new check 
       * add a --version parameter and improve the --help
       * come with bundled dependency to simply the build process
       * fix the login/passwd/realm authentification
       * remove Agent/Pid.pm, I've to prepare a better system to keep the pid first
       * try to read the config in /usr/local/etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg if the
         standard one is missing

0.0.6.2 07/16/2007 Bug fix release

       * remove a debug "die" in the code

0.0.6.1 06/12/2007 Bug fix release 
       * Fix an undef value in Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::BSD::Mem
       * AIX: retrieve correctly the MAC address of some FibberChannel card 
       * now standalone.sh will try to find every module before the build to
         avoid unexplicated error

0.0.6  06/07/2007
       * Enable "verbose" is debug is turned on
       * AIX: Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::OS::AIX::Networks rewrote
       * AIX: Memory.pm, remove the spaces from the end of the DESCRIPTION
       * add standalone.sh, a script designed to prepare a stand-alone binary of the agent
       * AIX: Retrieve all the gateway of every subnet instead of just the default one
       * Config.pm renamed to AccountConfig.pm
       * New flag: --stdout to print the inventory directly on STDOUT
       * If the use want write on the system var directory, the agent create one in
         ~/.ocsinventory/var
       * The agent setting can be preinitialised with /etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg or
         ~/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg.
       * remove two debug messages printed during accountinfo rewrite and the
         daemon starting process
       * remove a stupid check in Ocsinventory::Agent::AccountConfig, the
         accountconfig file was not written unless the file was already present
       * add a recMkdir function in ocsinventory-agent to create directory recursivly
       * do not process checksum in local mode 

0.0.5  04/17/2007
       * AIX: use lslpp -c -l to find installed packages
       * AIX: fixes on CPU.pm, Networks.pm and Memory.pm
       * AIX: fetch the serial number with lscfg unless it was found with lsvpd
       * add the .ocs extension to local written files
       * with --local flag: don't not warn if last_state doesn't exit
       * Solaris: retrieve installed package
       * downgrade some message important from info to debug
       * read screen serial number in the EDID (DDC screen)
       * Xorg.pm replaced by Screen.pm
       * Screen.pm all the data are read from EDID now
       * Initial Linux PPC support (tested in Debian Etch).
         thanks Walid Nouh for the hardware
       * Apply patch by Remi Collet to fix an issue with Linux distro detection and Perl 5.6.1
       * Turn of STDERR during the module execution to avoid useless message (e.g: foo: not found)
         use --debug to turn them back
       * If the system side vardir can't be created. The agent try to create one in ~/.ocs-inventory-agent
       * Add a THANKS file

0.0.4 03/20/2007
       * use of gzip when Compress:Zlib is not avalaible. OCS server 1.01 and
         prior are not supported.
       * dmidecode parsing improved
       * lspci stuffs moved to generic
       * Linux: find Wifi connection
       * fix: pass correctly the logger to the modules
       * don't write the last_state is the connexion failed
       * Deals correctly with the accountinfo if it's internaly stored in a
         array ref
       * BSD support by Thierry Lacoste 
