[wpkg-users] Gathering Information on Installed Software

[Terrell, Trey]

That's almost perfect for what I need. The only issue is I'm currently using WPKGexpress and that code doesn't seem to support XML files from URLs. Any plans to update it? It'd save me from having to code a PHP equivalent, as that's the only language I'm sufficiently knowledgeable in.

Thank you,

Trey

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Terrell, Trey <Trey.Terrell at oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> Is there any way currently to check for which software packages passed 
> their ?checks? on systems? Ideally it?d be some way to report back to 
> the server in the form of some kind of file being copied to the server 
> share. That way I could check what software is reported as installed 
> whether or not WPKG actually did the installing (or uninstalling.) Thank you.

copy the wpkg.xml files to a share like this:

<package id="wpkglog" name="wpkg.xml files from workstations"
revision="1" priority="0" execute="always">
        <install timeout="15" cmd='cmd /C copy /Y "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml"
"\\serwer\hostlogs\%COMPUTERNAME%-wpkg.xml"' /> </package>

For the reports use this:
http://www.gig-mbh.de/edv/index.htm?/edv/software/wpkgtools/wpkg-create-report-english.htm
or parse it with your favorite scripting language.

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