I hope Shad would be willing to speak up, for he is fully aware and
maintained all 'phone home' and install UUID, EPOCH stuff. Hopefully it
will prevent us from re-inventing the wheel.
On 10-3-2014 15:22, Jesper Knudsen wrote:
I agree that a unique ID would be beneficial in the long run and would
also eliminate discussions on polluted data -- I was only trying to
make a point that we do not need an opt-in for the suggested data.
I have used the MAC address before for that purpose -- before VMs it
was unique but now we need to combined with something more. Maybe the
UUID for the root device (found via blkid).
f.ex:
/dev/mapper/main-root: UUID="a41a9845-53be-489b-969c-bee4d387af3d"
TYPE="ext3"
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[mailto:discussion-boun...@lists.contribs.org] *On Behalf Of *Jonathan
Martens
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*Subject:* Re: [discussion] Install statistics for SME Server [SMOLT]
On 9-3-2014 23:33, Jesper Knudsen wrote:
The only think that this would "reveal" beyond what a YUM update
does is a unique ID and install date (why do we need that?). I do
not think we need an opt-in for that. Basically, as long as the
data gathering is so simple I do not even think a unique ID is
needed -- we are not looking for exact science here but marketing
number and if a few servers are behind the same router/IP that
will, or should not, disturb the picture much.
We could and should properly make an opt-in solution if we decided
to gather more detailed (and usefull??) data as I suggested.
Greetings,
Jesper
Although a unique key does not sound as a requirement for you, I know
it makes extension to the data model much easier, I think it is not
such a big hassle to create one for every server. I could imagine that
in the future we would like to now the install base on a per version
base and would like to have an update when a machine changes version
number for instance, this would be hard to do without a unique id. In
other words without the unique ID you do not know if you get
duplicates and statistics data is polluted easily, which IMHO defeats
the purpose of this exercise.
Kind regards,
Jonathan
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