Fusioninventory Plugin for GLPI - Tasks Redux¶

Tasks redux : objectives¶

This page aims to gather objectives .

Split and move tasks summary GUI parts into appropriate tab/screen called Monitoring and Reporting (like using native GLPI reporting facilities or mReporting optional plugin)
Rework task summary categories and layout

Info

TODO We welcome any mockup and propositions.

Add history log on tasks.
Externalize taskjobs reports in an independant page and base the display of this page on what have been done with the Deploy reports status

Info

TODO

Add some mockup within this page or linked to another page if there are too many elements that makes this page unreadable.

Multi TaskJob sequencing¶

Up until 0.83, there was some sequencing facility with the original tabbed Task interface.

The actual implementation did not allow us to reorder easily those "Multi-TaskJobs" Tasks.

Add timeout field in the action

The following mockup show some way to achieve this :

Task planification¶

server-driven mode (legacy)¶

Taskjobs are generated like in previous version but Task and TaskJobs are created and managed separately.

Split tasks from jobs to simplify the process
- Create a Jobs management tab outside the tasks
- We should be able to create Jobs in task management screen (cf. Package interface)
- Tasks are only considered as crontab-like tasks.
- Display the jobs list line by line.
- Create some helper class which helps to list jobs associated to some task. For each Jobs linked, we must have:
  - some timeout (or delay) before running a job.
  - regroup every job by starting time.

JobStates are generated according to their delay and in the resultant order :

example:
    * Wakeonlan 1 - no delay
    * Deploy 1    - no delay
    * Deploy 2    - 2 hours

results:
    * at t+0, [Wakeonlan 1] and [Deploy 1] tasks are generated and
    ready to be executed by the agents.
    * at t+1h, nothing to be done
    * at t+2h, [Deploy 2] is generated and ready to be executed by the
    agents.

Info

TODO

Explain in detail the delay time.
Maybe we can use some sort of maximum duration in addition to the delay a task in order to limit usage on certain time slots.

agent-driven mode (ondemand)¶

TaskJobs are produced more like an on-demand service:

Some agent asks for its tasks periodically (cf. getConfig in REST specs)
The server computes a list of currently available Tasks for the agent.
This list is filtered out by the agent id and the allowed timeslot.
Each allowed Tasks generates a corresponding TaskJob and sends the result to the agent.

Each black square represents an authorized interval
The timeslot associated to the task will be saved in a table:

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Example

#Monday(0), between 0:00 and 7:00 12345 | 0 | 0 | 7 #Monday(0), between 19:00 and 0:00 12345 | 0 | 19 | 24

#Tuesday(1), between 0:00 and 4:00 12345 | 1 | 0 | 4 #Tuesday(1), between 6:00 and 10:00 12345 | 1 | 6 | 10 #Tuesday(1), between 12:00 and 16:00 12345 | 1 | 12 | 16 #Tuesday(1), between 19:00 and 0:00 12345 | 1 | 19 | 23

#Wednesday(2), between 12:00 and 15:00 12345 | 2 | 12 | 15

#Thursday(3), between 8:00 and 12:00 12345 | 3 | 8 | 12

#Friday(4), between 12:00 and 14:00 12345 | 4 | 12 | 14

#Friday(5), all day long 12345 | 5 | 0 | 24

#Sunday(6), all day long 12345 | 6 | 0 | 24

Taskjob Statuses¶

legacy¶

PREPARED : server just create the TaskJob
RUNNING : some agent gets its corresponding TaskJob
FINISHED : the agent has completed its TaskJob without error
INERROR : the agent encountered some issues and stop the TaskJob with errors or TaskJob's timeout occured (crontask > 2h)

on-demand¶

RUNNING : some agent gets its corresponding TaskJob
FINISHED : the agent has completed its TaskJob without error
INERROR : the agent encountered some issues and stop the TaskJob with errors or TaskJob's timeout occured (crontask > 2h)

Monitoring / Logs¶

Enhance summary view with tasks related status informations like number of discovered/inventoried devices (cf. NetDiscovery or NetInventory status) or the number of packages deployed grouped by statuses. It looks like tasks summary view in 0.84+1.0 but with relevant summarized details. Those details can be refreshed dynamically on this consultation page. Each line must use the following format :
```
<task icon> - <task name> - <specific global tasks details> - [global completion percentage] - <status icon>
    + more specific task details
```

Example :

<DEPLOY icon> - Office Apps install - 80 deployments (ok: 50, ko : 12, unneeded : 3) - completion : 81 % - <RUNNING icon>
    + Total targetted devices : 40
    + LibreOffice - ok : 30, ko :  2,  unneeded : 3
    + Thunderbird - ok : 20, ko : 10,  unneeded : 0

<NETDISCOVERY icon> - Building 42 - discoveries : (50 new devices , 100 updated devices) - completion : N/A - <FINISHED icon>
    + networking devices - 10 new devices, 5 updated devices
    + printers           - 30 new devices, 5 updated devices
    + unknown devices    - 10 new devices, 90 updated devices

<NETINVENTORY icon> - Building 666 - targetted devices : 0 - completion : 0 % - <INERROR icon>
    + Total targets : 0
    + IP range :
        9th circle, 8th circle, 7th circle
    + Error :
        no devices found to be inventoried

Selecting a task will switch to a more detailed view with advanced logs (jobstates filtered by the currently selected task id)

Reporting¶

Info

TODO

* Define some use case reports for each tasks.