Milestone 1.2.1

Facts

• stable release
• released on 2009-05-14
• focus on
  • bug hunt (more than one hundred bugfixes and enhancements)
  • entities support introduction (clients are put in one entity, users have access to several entities)
  • new proxy mode ("multiple" mode)
  • overall interface responsiveness, especially in the dyngroup module
  • overall interface cleanup, especially in the msc module

Features since the 1.2.0 release

• [general]
  • Nagios script to monitor launchers and schedulers (#589)
  • services should log their svn revision at startup (#587)
• [msc]
  • New proxy mode to perform parallel uploads
• [inventory]
  • Support for entities

Enhancements since the 1.2.0 release

• [general]
  • Add a "All my entities" selector in the entities list (#556)
  • Entity filter not used by the CSV export on a dynamic group content page (#559)
  • RHEL RPM packages depends on sqlalchemy 0.4.x (#603)
  • Remember selected entity (#554)
  • The XMLRPC client part seems to read certs each time a connexion is opened (#524)
  • check on twisted version to allow or not some config options (#177)
  • Check twisted version is at least 2.4 is login/password auth is activated for XMLRPC requests (#316)
  • put msc database access in pulse2-common (#552)
  • should catch all exceptions in the ping workflow (#566)
• [dyngroup]
  • Potential speed enhancement in dyngroup (#358)
  • dyngroup.ini documentation (#608)
  • An acl should be present for : save a request/result group (#621)
• [msc]
  • Improved interface
  • Probe order can now be given (none, ping, ssh, or ping+ssh)
  • Check date range for command : start_date < end_date (#526)
  • Check for incoherences in available action button for actions (#473)
  • Classify commands display by interrest (#452)
  • Command status ('I' icon) not available/shown for a single command on a single target (#537)
  • Display used proxy in tooltip for proxy clients clients (#579)
  • Unneeded "Bundle #" in bundle detail (#536)
  • machine status led enhancement (#186)
  • missing msc status on group state : machine paused (#545)
  • Adding a table to msc database breaks plugin loading / scheduler (#335)
  • Bundle command creation must be rewritten (#492)
  • Missing index on commands_on_host.fk_target (#493)
  • MscConfig?() should be a Singleton (#71)
  • Potential SA pool overflow (#487)
  • SQLAlchemy warning when creating a bundle in advanced mode (#338)
  • User may want to dispatch computers in another entity than "." using pulse2-inventory-populate-root-entity.py (#577)
  • check_db should be done during the database init() (#564)
  • rescheduled state should be emulated in the msc log page (#551)
• [pkgs]
  • Creating packages with the same name (#528)
  • Missing package size column in Pulse 2 package manager (#529)
  • pkgs.ini documentation (#607)
• [glpi]
  • glpi.ini documentation (#609)
  • quick search on inventory doesn't work the same way than the one on glpi (#297)
• [inventory]
  • Missing indexes on Registry (#444)
  • Sort inventory entity list in lexicographic order when displaying them (#553)
  • The inventory plugin depends on the dyngroup plugin (#322)
• [pulse2]
  • Is MscConfig?() a singleton or not ? (#334)
• [inventory-server]
  • Client inventory processing takes too much time (#284)
  • Create default entity if it does not exists (#571)
  • Expected to create the default entity when it do not exists (#578)
  • Some fields are too short (#544)
• [launchers]
  • Dump used FDs (HEALTH indicator)
  • Admin may want to override --chmod option for rsync (#254)
  • Better handling of launcher shutdown (#575)
  • Binary path to be made configurables (#533)
  • Do not record key fingerprint (#580)
  • Hardcoded path in pulse2-launchers-manager (#398)
  • Remove pulse2-launcher dependency on python-mmc-base for RPMs (#597)
  • Check rsync version to avoid invalid options (#253)
• [package-server]
  • Configuration folder name inconsistency (The pulse 2 package server is named "pserver" instead of 'package-server") (#328) (WARNING : should change several stuffs in the documentation)
  • Hardcoded path in pulse2-packages-server (#399)
  • Problem when updating the pulse2-package-server with the RHEL 5 RPMs (#595)
  • check conf.xml date to verify it has not been recreated while a package detect loop is waiting (#450)
  • package-server.ini documentation (#606)
  • check the compatibility of package-server terminal_type plugin on windows(#572)
• [scheduler]
  • In multiple-proxy-mode, proxies are probed prior to being used
  • We now keep a proxy usage array in memory to aviod race condition due to the new proxy probing system
  • Periodical dump of stats in log file (memory; load avg, used FDs)
  • Add an XMLRPC func to obtain the scheduler health by XMLRPC call (#573)
  • Better handling of scheduler shutdown (#574)
  • Hardcoded path in pulse2-scheduler-manager (#397)
  • Set file descriptors limit in configuration file (#588)
  • Set out-of-validity-period commands as "failed" (#484)
  • Smarter WOL (#419)
• [secure-agent-win32]
  • Some binaries to add to the next agent package (#501)

Bugs fixed since the 1.2.0 release

• [general]
  • Inventory panel page title badly internationalized (#598)
  • Unhandled cas when attempting to obtain informations about a bundle (#499)
  • Wrong connected peer report (#555)
  • python-mmc-inventory:missing provisioning_plugins directory in RHEL package (#569)
• [dyngroup]
  • Can't connect to mmc web interface if dyngroup is enabled but no computers method set (#365)
  • Redirect to Group List page after having shared a group (#518)
  • TB when editing boolean expr of a shared group (#547)
  • TB when showing group temp result in edit mode (#546)
  • Static group creation from a file failed with Entity/Label (#600)
  • Unhandled exception (#497)
  • When temporarily showing a group with a + in the name it's not kept when returning (#618)
  • problem with acl in sub query edition (#622)
• [msc]
  • Bad label "current_state" for MSC web tables (#549)
  • Bundle logs are not in the good page (logs VS history) (#538)
  • Command name overwrite when creating a command (not a bundle) in advanced mode not taken in acocunt (#535)
  • In QA, "titlefr" do not seems to be used in fr_FR (#271)
  • Missing actions in command history (#377)
  • A breaked bundle can be created if something goes wrong while inserting related commands in database (#496)
  • File download no more works (#599)
  • Strange exception: twisted.internet.error.TimeoutError? while performing MirrorApi:getMirrors (#495)
  • TB in interface when the scheduler is down (#366)
  • vnc sometime use the wrong ip adresse (when several ip for the same machine) (#568)
  • when pausing a bundle on a simple machine it break (#548)
• [inventory-server]
  • OcsNGMap.xml is not in the pulse2-inventory-server package (#530)
  • Typo error in inventory server (#584)
• [launchers]
  • Collison in file rotation when several launchers are available (#525)
  • Strange behavior of wget / ssh: unexpected "0" exit code (#494)
  • Wrong exit code when something goes wrong when cleaning a deployment (#320)
  • when the ssh key doesnt exists, the launcher explode (#567)
  • work on the command killing process (#611 and #613)
• [package-server]
  • package server detect during synchro fails (#432)
• [scheduler]
  • Proxy cleanup in multiple-proxy-mode enhanced to avoid stalling when one of the proxies is down
  • Scheduler always says "unpack non-sequence" on WOL phase when all launchers are dead (#586)
  • Strange TB while gathering CoH details (#498)
  • TB when pinging client and launchers are down (#570)
  • pulse2-scheduler init.d initscript returns OK on failure (#527)
  • scheduling problem when stopping a command in WOL state (#532)
  • wrong log message in logs for inventory flag (#560)
  • on some platforms scheduler loop does not start (#304)
  • Remove fail if spaces in filenames (#615)
  • Check that twisted version is at least 2.4 to activate login/password XMLRPC request (#319)
• [secure-agent-win32]
  • Wrong .ssh folder owner under Vista (#543)
  • Wrong default path (#500)
  • Wrong home mapping under vista (#541)
  • sshd_user can't be overriden when re-installing agent under Vista (#542)

SVN tags

• PULSE2_1_2_1_rc1 (2009-02-26)
• PULSE2_1_2_1_rc2 (2009-03-02)
• PULSE2_1_2_1_rc3 (2009-03-06)
• PULSE2_1_2_1_rc4 (2009-03-31)
• PULSE2_1_2_1_rc5 (2009-04-09)
• PULSE_1_2_1 (2009-04-23)