Nice to have

[oelked]

Hello, we currently have a fog network
1 master
and 4 storage nodes at different locations

these are expected to increase by 19 over the next few years.

The following things would simplify and improve the function.

Snapin area

Column with version number that is read from the .MSI, .EXE during upload or can be maintained manually

Snapin update date column

Dashboard area

Synchronization status storage nodes
or status in general

[Tom Elliott]

@oelked Snapins - reading what from the MSI or EXE?

Fog runs on linux and wouldn’t have the ability to read the information, but even if it could/can (I’m just not aware of a method to do so)

Snapins are not a softare management system. Sure, you can do one off “software” installs, custom configuration scripts, etc…, but it was not/is not, intended as a mechanism to manage software for your machines. This isn’t to say what you’re sasking couldn’t be implemented, but if your asking “can be maintained manually” why not just update the snapin with the version number for the Name?

Syncing status, we have logs, that tell us the last time the syncronization occurred already. There is no “flag” as of yet to state, success/fail of it at all. That’s not to say there couldn’t be one, but there’s very few people around working on fog that feature requests are likely FAR down the the list of things to be done.

I’m not trying to be rude, just trying ot set expectations here. That said, where on the “dashboard” would such a feature go? How would it be represented? How would it be stored? What constitutes failure? Should it be realtime check? Should it autorefresh on the dashboard?

[oelked]

Hello
We primarily use Fog for software management on the clients
This works relatively well, even if it wasn’t intended for that purpose.
We would still like to keep this as this function is very convenient for us.

You can certainly add the version number to the name.
I actually wanted to avoid this because I can’t guarantee that there might be problems here in Fog if the name of an assigned packet changes all of a sudden.

To the node status
I currently know that you can read this in the logs

One field in the dashboard for each storage node would be enough for me to operate it
what the status is

Example
synchronization
Ready
Error

If there are errors, you can read them in the log.

Thank you for the great work on this project