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

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__