Hm, after an upgrade it might be tricky. Perhaps display it here somehow http://img.nux.ro/3hH-callhome.png Perhaps some UI/javascript specialist can help us here ...
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wido den Hollander" <w...@widodh.nl> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 15:05:55 > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Automatic usage reporting / call-home for CloudStack > On 12/01/2014 04:00 PM, Nux! wrote: >> In addition: this should be opt-out, but clearly specified in the release >> notes, >> as well as visible in the UI. >> > > But where do we display this in the UI? I don't think we have a > mechanism to show a one-time message after a upgrade. Do we? > >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> >>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>> Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 13:52:35 >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Automatic usage reporting / call-home for CloudStack >> >>> +1, good job! >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >>> >>> Nux! >>> www.nux.ro >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Wido den Hollander" <w...@widodh.nl> >>>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>>> Sent: Monday, 1 December, 2014 13:08:02 >>>> Subject: [DISCUSS] Automatic usage reporting / call-home for CloudStack >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> As a project we currently don't have a lot of insight information on >>>> about how CloudStack is being used. Surveys tell us a lot, but not >>>> everybody fills in the survey, so we still miss a lot of information. >>>> >>>> That's why I've written the Usage Reporting functionality for the >>>> management server which automatically sends back anonymous information >>>> about a CloudStack deployment. >>>> >>>> It's currently in the 'reporter' branch. [0] >>>> >>>> By default, every 7 days it generates a JSON document with: >>>> - Hosts (Number, version, type, hypervisor) >>>> - Clusters (Hypervisor en Management type) >>>> - Primary storage (Type and provider) >>>> - Zones (Network type and providers) >>>> - Instances (Number and types) >>>> >>>> This report is not complete yet, I'd like to add more information, but >>>> that will be Management Server information. >>>> >>>> The code on how this report is generated is obviously 100% Open Source, >>>> so end-users can always exactly see how the information was compiled. >>>> >>>> I want to discuss this new feature for CloudStack and the possible >>>> implications it might have. >>>> >>>> I'm opting for a opt-out. So every new or upgraded install to 4.6.0 >>>> (master) will have this enabled. Yes, we have to be very explicit in the >>>> Release Notes that this has been added. >>>> >>>> Why? It's the small price we as a project ask for using CloudStack. We >>>> want a little bit of information on how CloudStack is being used so that >>>> we can use this to make CloudStack even better. >>>> >>>> Turning it off is also just one global setting and it will never turn on >>>> again. >>>> >>>> On the server-side there is a Python flask application [1] (found in the >>>> reporter directory) which stores all the incoming information in a >>>> ElasticSearch database. From there analytics can be gathered on >>>> CloudStack deployments. >>>> >>>> It currently points to http://cs-report.widodh.nl/report which will NOT >>>> be the endpoint when this is merged into master. >>>> >>>> For 'production' I want to have >>>> https://report.cloudstack.apache.org/report where all reports are >>>> submitted. >>>> >>>> For every setup a unique ID is determined by hashing the first row in >>>> the 'version' table. This is the version + timestamp and that is hashed >>>> using SHA256. Using this unique ID we can track changes in deployments >>>> and see how they grow or shrink. >>>> >>>> Technically this wasn't that hard to implement, but the politics >>>> surrounding it might be the hardest part. >>>> >>>> What do other have to say about this? Should there be a VOTE for this >>>> feature to come into CloudStack? Opt-in, opt-out? >>>> >>>> Wido >>>> >>>> [0]: >>>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/reporter >>>> [1]: > >>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=blob;f=reporter/usage-report-collector.py;h=500a4d284b5172fd93acea08f5460cfff5520855;hb=reporter
