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Knarfling · 2008-08-08 19:44:35

I am having a little trouble with the nosoft option on the unified agent for Linux. Because of the way that it collects inventory, Linux agents have thousands of software programs listed. I don't need to know all the libraries installed, although it would be nice to know the names of some of the major programs. But rather than deal with the thousands of libraries listed, I would rather have no software listed at all.

Unfortunately, on the Fedora 9 agent (version 0.0.9.2), the nosoft option does not work. If I run it with /usr/sbin/ocsinventory-agent -l /tmp/ --nosoft, I get the message "The parameter --nosoft is deprecated and may be removed in a futur release, please us --nosoftware instead." The .ocs file that was created is 10 thousand lines long. When I use --nosoftware, I get the exact same message. I even tried putting nosoftware=1 in the /etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg and leaving off the line option, but I still get the exact same message.

Has this been reported before, or am I the only one experiencing it? And will it be fixed in an rpm or will I have to install a compiler on each machine where I want to collect inventory?

Thank you

remi · 2008-08-08 19:55:37

The --nosoft option work and doesn't produce warning nor soft list in the inventory.

Code:

# rpm -q ocsinventory-agent
ocsinventory-agent-0.0.9.2-1.fc9.noarch

# ocsinventory-agent --nosoftware
[info] the parameter --nosoft is deprecated and may be removed in a futur release, please use --nosoftware instead.
[info] Inventory saved in /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
# du /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
464 /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
# grep SOFTWARE  /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs | wc -l
3464

# ocsinventory-agent --nosoft
[info] Inventory saved in /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
# du /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
24    /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs
# grep SOFTWARE  /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/sulphur-2008-04-20-13-18-19.ocs | wc -l
0

I think this is a documentation issue.

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Last edited by remi (2008-08-08 20:00:35)

goneri · 2008-08-08 20:39:58

Hi,

--nosoft documentation is in the manpage

remi · 2008-08-08 20:44:42

Yes gonéri, the manpage is ok.

But this piece of code is broken (ocsinventory-agent) :

Code:

if ($params->{nosoftware}) {
    $logger->info("the parameter --nosoft is deprecated and may be removed in a futur release, please use --nosoftware instead.");
    $params->{nosoftware} = 1 
}

Should be (nosoft is used in the various backend)

Code:

if ($params->{nosoftware}) {
    $logger->info("the parameter --nosoftware is deprecated and may be removed in a futur release, please use --nosoft instead.");
    $params->{nosoft} = 1 
}

And also :

Code:

  print STDERR "\t--nosoft           DEPRECATED, use --nosoftware instead\n";
  print STDERR "\t--nosoftware       do not return installed software list (".$params->{nosoftware}.")\n";

Or probably the reverse, according to http://ocsinventory.cvs.sourceforge.net … mp;r2=1.55

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Last edited by remi (2008-08-08 20:53:32)

goneri · 2008-08-09 01:18:25

Oh, yes. Thank you for pointing that out.

goneri · 2008-08-16 17:37:18

Again, thanks guys. The bug is fixed on the CVS.

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#1 2008-08-08 19:44:35

Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

#2 2008-08-08 19:55:37

Re: Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

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#3 2008-08-08 20:39:58

Re: Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

#4 2008-08-08 20:44:42

Re: Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

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#5 2008-08-09 01:18:25

Re: Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

#6 2008-08-16 17:37:18

Re: Nosoft option for Unified Agent on Linux 0.0.9.2

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