Task scheduling protocol

Agent request

Description

The agent advertise itself and its capacities, through URL parameters

Example

GET http://glpiserver/glpi/plugins/fusioninventory/api/tasks?agentid=xyz&module['inventory']=2.4.0&module['netinventory']=2.4.0

Server response

Description

The server response is a list of tasks, and a timestamp for next agent request.

A task had an identifier, and a list of jobs.

A job has an identifier, a type and a list of targets.

Example

{
    'tasks': [
        {
            'id': 'task1',
            'jobs': [
                {
                    'id': 'job1.1',
                    'type': 'netdiscovery',
                    'workers': 2,
                    'targets': [
                        {
                            'network': '192.168.0.0/24',
                            'workers': 10,
                            'timeout': 5,
                            'credentials': [
                                {
                                    'version': '2c',
                                    'community': 'public'
                                },
                                {
                                    'version': '1',
                                    'community': 'public'
                                },
                            ],
                        },
                        {
                            'network': '192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254',
                            'workers': 5,
                            'timeout': 2,
                            'credentials': [
                                {
                                    'version': '3',
                                    'username': 'foo',
                                    'authprotocol': 'sha1',
                                    'authpassword': 'bar',
                                },
                            ],
                        },
                    ],
                },
                {
                    'id': 'job1.2'
                    'type': 'netinventory',
                    'workers': 2,
                    'targets': [
                        {
                            'host': '192.168.1.1',
                            'type': 'printer,'
                            'credentials': {
                                'version': '2c',
                                'community': 'public'
                            },
                        },
                        {
                            'host': '192.168.1.2',
                            'type': 'networking,'
                            'credentials': {
                                'version': '3',
                                'username': 'foo',
                                'authprotocol': 'sha1',
                                'authpassword': 'bar',
                            },
                        },
                    ],
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'id': 'task3',
            'jobs': [
                {
                    'id': 'job31'
                    'type': 'inventory'
                },
            ],
        },

    ],
    'nextContactTime': 1424763734
}

Processing.

The agent should process each task, and each job within a task, sequentially.

The agent should process multiple targets of the same job either paralleously if a 'workers' variable is present at job level, sequentially otherwise.

The agent should process a single target paralleously, if a 'workers' variable is present at target level (network discovery only), sequentially otherwise.