[Nodeshot] Refactoring doubt: device fields firmware and OS

[Clauz]

Hi.
If we want to keep it simple would suggest using "OS" (which is more
general than "Firmware") and "OS Version". In this way also statistics
on OS/Firmware usage could be easily computed.

Clauz


On 11/06/2013 04:28 PM, nemesis wrote:
> I don't have time at the moment to refactor the field to become a table.
> Maybe in the future if we start offering firmware images to download or
> stuff like that it would be a nice feature.
> 
> The question was if we should have OS and Firmware fields or if we
> should have just OS and in case the device is an embedded device we
> could fill OS with the name of the firmware, eg: OpenWRT Attitude
> Adjustment, AirOS, ecc
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 16:22:14 +0100, Fabio Capriati
> <fabio.capriati at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's possible to retrive these information from devices remotly and
>> building automatically this table by script.
>>
>> 2013/11/6 nemesis
>>  Your proposal could be useful if we used that information to
>> generate the image to be installed on devices, but at the moment this
>> is not on my todo list, and I would adopt the kiss principle and keep
>> it as more simple as possible.
>>
>>  Federico
>>
>>  On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:35:10 +0100, Fabio Capriati  wrote:
>>
>>  In my opinion, it could be righta a table "Firmware" with this
>>  fields:
>>
>>  Integer "ID"
>>  String "Operative System"   (OperWRT | MicrotiKOS | AirOS)
>>  String "Name" (Stock | Sburratone | Scorreggione)
>>  Integer "Version"
>>  Bool "Support IPV6"
>>  Bool "Support SNMP"
>>  Bool .... 
>>
>>  So into device you can put only the ID reference.
>>
>>  2013/11/6 Stefano De Carlo
>>
>>   Il 06/11/2013 14:00, nemesis ha scritto:
>>
>>    > In the Device table at the moment we have "os" which stands for
>>   > "operating system" and "firmware", both are optional fields.
>>   >
>>   > Does it have sense to have both? Or in case of embedded device
>> the
>>  OS
>>   > field should be filled with the firmware name?
>>   >
>>   > Have your say
>>
>>   In my experience I think It's best not to have semantic clashes
>> like
>>   this one and just go for an agnostic term. "Operating System" will
>>  work
>>   just fine for the whole device spectrum.
>>
>>   Stefanauss.
>>
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