[wpkg-users] frequency of wpkgservice checking for new installs

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Brad Langhorst schrieb:

(...)

>>> The advantage of having a file on the server is that the admin does not
>>> have to touch every machine (or use psexec) to get them all to sync up.
>>> You bring up a good point about sets of machines...  That would be a
>>> PITA to deal with using psexec too.
>> Still, WPKG Client has to attempt to read such a file every X minutes / 
>> hours.
> 
> Yeah - that's true - the service would have to do a read on the server
> every few minutes (this could be configured in the service).
> I don't think it will be noticeable even with a large number of clients.

And by default - disable.


>>> Maybe it's better to put this feature in the profiles.xml where it could
>>> enabled be on a per group basis.
>> There is one slight problem with that: WPKG Client and wpkg.js are not 
>> very well integrated (it will change slowly in the future; right now, 
>> there are even problems with restarts initiated by wpkg.js etc.).
>>
>> This means, we would have to learn WPKG Client to read and parse files 
>> used by wpkg.js. Which means - parsing profiles.xml is not enough, and 
>> profiles can be also kept in "profiles" directory.
> 
> That is a bit of a problem.
> 1) effort for the service
> 2) duplication of code
> 
> Perhaps it's possible to modify wpkg.js to have a new
> switch /exportprofiles (or somesuch) that the service could parse
> easily.  

Good idea.


>>> The value of X could be included as an attrib of the force_sync element
>>> (or in the file) and could default to never.
>> All right - this is why I don't like the "force_sync=1 / force_sync=0" idea.
>>
>> Assume we want to initiate a sync, so we put force_sync=1 there. The 
>> client syncs, but we see we forgot about something, so another sync is 
>> needed. Hmm, force_sync=2, force_sync=3, force_sync=n? Logically, how 
>> should it work?
> 
> I was thinking that maybe X should be something like 600 minutes, I
> guess your comments have made me think that would be better than a force
> sync.
> 
> If an admin wanted an immediate force she could change the time to 1
> minute and then change it back.

And what if it's a he? :)


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