I'm working on building a report to show all the changed files for all the systems
in my satellite, but I can't quite seem to find any useful information in the API.
What I would like is report that mirrors the information found by the scheduled action:
"Show differences between profiled config files and deployed config files"
The problem, as usual, is the information in the WebUI is not condusive
to reporting on large numbers of systems, and the API doesn't have it.
The closest thing are the system.config methods, but they don't have any
way to directly compare information.
I've considered hitting all the client systems and running rhncfg-client verify (yuck),
or trying to webscrape the WebUI (more yuck).
I'd like to produce something like the rhncfg-client verify output but
from the backend that would look something like this for every system:
system: foo
system_id:100000100
modified_files: {
{name: "/etc/sudoers", type: "file", system_rev: "5", channel: "base-files", sat_rev:"7"},
{name: "/etc/sudoers.d", type: "directory", system_rev: "3", channel: "override-files", sat_rev:"5"}
}
The only thing that appears to have anything related to this level of file comparison is
the scheduled action to compare files. It doesn't look like this type of data exists normally.
So looking at scheduleFileComparisons(), that doesn't really help any.
Notwithstanding the problem of having to schedule for each individual file path for
every server in the list, it's a scheduled action, so I don't know when it's complete.
Getting the actionId doesn't tell me anything useful, either. So, once that activity is done,
I can't do anything with the results, and I have to wait X hours to get the info in the first place.
If it had something in the API like configchannel.getActionResults()
that allowed me to traverse the details of the action I scheduled, that
would be useful. eg,
Method: getComparisonResults()
Description:
Get Detailed Results of a given Action
parameters:
string sessionKey
int actionId
Returns:
struct - comparisonDetails
int "id" - action Id
... whatever other basic action info ...
struct - iterable list of systems to see the actual
results of the comparison
The key part is to be able to actually look at the comparison results
for a given action, and that doesn't currently exist. What I'm looking
for is an API equivalent to:
htp://satserver/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do
It shows a list of all servers, where you can drill down on a given server and
see all the file comparisons, which is exctly what I want, but it's not
something that exists in a report format.
