Phone Home¶
This tool is used to track all NethServer’s installations around the world. Each time a new NethServer is installed, this tool sends some installation information through comfortable APIs. The information are stored in database and used to display nice markers in a Google Map view with number of installation grouped by country and release.
Overview¶
The tool is disabled by default.
To enable it simply run: config set phone-home configuration status enabled
- If the tool is enabled the information sent are:
- UUID: stored in
/var/lib/yum/uuid - RELEASE: get by
/sbin/e-smith/config getprop sysconfig Version
- UUID: stored in
All the infos are used to populate the map.
Configuration¶
If you use a proxy edit the correct placeholders in file phone-home stored in /etc/sysconfig/ :
SERVER_IP=__serverip__
PROXY_SERVER=__proxyserver__
PROXY_USER=__proxyuser__
PROXY_PASS=__proxypass__
PROXY_PORT=__proxyport__