Have been looking at your utility as a way to deploy and manage windows systems. The feature I like about the wpkg software is its ability to check/ verify/ install/uninstall software. With its option in tight XML files.
What is troublesome is how it requires a file share to get the todo list and packages to the systems to deploy. This makes it difficult to securely update systems that are not inside the secure network perimeter. Also a bit troublesome for the user of the system is that they never know when their system is going to make them wait for an update to login. My users will never logout then(just lock the screen). Perhaps configuring the install service wpkgsrv to be able to run on a sliding schedule window in addition to at bootup/login time. So I know office systems are all on at 2 am, so schedule the installs for them(but first make sure no one is logged in, if so wait and check in an hour till the window is closed) at 2am -6am. The todo list(wpkg.xml) and patch software should be also available vi http. and the patches/apps should be downloaded to the client secure temp for installation. Installing over the net is a bit slower than offline. And if done offline its less disruptive to other users installs at the same time. Once the tool can operate over http it wouldn't be all that hard to have the clients send install state date up to the server for reporting etc.. I have a few programs written here to manage our windows XP systems that do similar as I mentioned but don't have the nice configurability as your installs. Perhaps we can combine efforts to make a few changes and more flexible tool set. If there is interest in these features and adding code let me know. Cheers Derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
