Posts made by PAJ

I just upgrade from 0.32 to 1.2.0. I Upload a new image of a linux (ext4 and grub2) computer,
the disk has two partition: system and swap
the parameter for the image are
[INDENT=1]OS: Linux[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]type : single disk / multiple partitions[/INDENT]
I have no problem uploading and deploying it in unicast.

But when I try multicast it wasn’t the same.
the first partition (system) is downloaded without error, and then the clients are waiting the second one (swap) but (of course ?) there is no image file to deploy and no udp-sender task.

Did I make any mistake somewhere ?

Regards.

May be it is the wrong thread. “Configuration” is only a (bad) suggestion for the new feature name. By configuration I mean deployment configuration or computers configuration. It may be called “preconfigured tasks”.

We have several images for the same hosts, with different kinds of OS (linux, Windows, Windows server…) . Each time we switch from one to another (it can be twice or thrice a day) we have to do an image association (and OS before 1.2.0) and sometimes we have to do it quickly. What I mean is a superset of groups and images. By using it it can reduce time a little and error probability a lot.

As I said this feature should be useful for teaching environment.

I had a look to the code, but I am not very good at PHP and I haven’t much time for it. I would need some explanation of the code architecture to feel more confident with it.
Modifying groups implementation would be an error.
I think, it can be implemented just (always easy to say) by adding a table in database and a new page.
This page could be a minor (I am optimistic) change of the group page because all the actions would be the same.

Sorry if it is still not understandable, but I am not used to write english.

I hoped that groups implementation would have progressed in 1.2.0, but it hasn’t. For me, that is the main weakness of this version.
I suggest to create/add a new item we may call “configuration”. A “configuration” will be the association between a group and an image. “Configuration” will behave like groups (deploy, multitask deploy …), but it will manage images association automatically. This could be a very useful improvement for schools and universities, especially for networks and computer science teaching.

Version 1.2.0 is a great improvement, with this feature it will be perfect to me.