Update on this project, @Tom-Elliott has taken the PHP backend and integrated it partially into FOG Trunk. It’s available as a plugin, but not fully functioning just yet. We still need to create scheduling for it. Tom has already written a way to display everything in the checksum table, and a way to export those if people wanted to use a 3rd party app to analyze the results if they wish.
I’ll be writing some intelligent code that will analyze the table’s contents to display concerning entries. The analysis will follow some basic principals.
Makes decisions based on data in the DB.
A storage group’s files should always match across all nodes in the group, both images and snapins.
Images shared between storage groups should always match between those groups masters.
If no image upload occurred between the last and current check, images are expected to match across that time period.
If an image upload does occur, the files are expected to change.
Results of the intelligent analysis should display concerns, following the rules above, and the user should be able to “dismiss” individual file concerns so they don’t show anymore.
The integrity table will have a column that will operate similar to the pending hosts column in the hosts table. blank or zero should be unchecked or false (bad or unprocessed), 1 should be good or dismissed.
This column in the table will be administered by the intelligent checking, and by the user’s “dismiss” clicks. Once an entry for a file is marked as “good” by either no problems being detected or being dismissed by the user, that entry is forever good. If it’s blank, when analyzed it will be marked 0 or 1 respectively.
I’ll be working on this as I have time.
