mandriva

Pulse 2 roadmap

Pulse 2 version 1.0

  • Use the MMC framework
  • Modularize all components to support a load increase (targeting 100 000+ computers)
    • Schedulers
    • Launchers
  • Use GLPI as a data backend
    • Get all computers available on the computing equipment
    • Get computers distribution inside the computing equipment (available in GLPI 0.70)
  • Display logs about all software roll-out phases: transfer, execution and clean up
  • User interface works to support 100 000 computers (dynamic list with an AJAX filter)
  • Packaging and install kit for RHEL 4, RHEL 5, Mandriva CS4, Debian Etch
  • User documentation
  • Official Pulse 2 community web site

Pulse 2 version 1.1

  • Full SSL (TLS) support between components
  • Demons should be able to run under a non privileged user
  • Obfuscated passwords support in configuration files
  • Dynamic computers group using inventory content
  • Software traffic shaping on the targeted computers

Pulse 2 version 1.2

  • Computers remote control with VNC (through an encrypted tunnel)
  • Application chaining (Bundles)
  • Local Proxy : kind of "Peer to Peer" mode (Former Pulse technology integration), and use a target computer as a temporary data repository
  • Display some GLPI inventory content
  • Display realtime data about a software deployment being done on a computers group

Pulse 2 version 1.2.1

  • Support for entities in inventory backend
  • New Local proxy mode to perform parallel uploads

Pulse 2 version 1.2.2

  • Enhanced cleanup mechanism for win32 plateforms

Pulse 2 version 1.2.3

  • Enforced scheduler

Pulse 2 version 1.2.4

  • GLPI 0.72 support

Pulse 2 version 1.3

  • Global traffic shaping on all Pulse 2 components
  • Hard disk imaging and mastering (from the Linbox Rescue Server)
  • Shared images management between computers
  • User interface works on the imaging and mastering module
  • User interface works on computers network boot menu
  • Computer image mastering on CD and DVD
  • Computer update according to a specified software profile and linked to a static computers group

Pulse 2 version 1.4

  • RPM based Linux distribution deployment using the former Pulse technology
  • Debian based Linux distribution deployment
  • Package life cycle management, multi-sites package replication with traffic shaping, package versioning (depending on customer request)
  • Inventory report

Pulse 2 version 1.5

  • Use LDAP as a data backend