[fab] Re: splash page + tracking image example

[Rob Garth]

I would also suggest that most large deployments would be setup this
way, so there is potential to miss huge numbers.

Cheers,
Rob Garth.

On 10/6/06, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Rob Garth <rgarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree with Josh. But I agree with Max and Greg we need metrics now.
> >
> > I have over 500 workstations running Fedora. They all run through a
> > proxy, so the IP method would not work. I run my own local yum
> > mirrors, and only one of the workstations talk to even my own yum
> > servers, and it doesn't look for mirrors, so the yum method would not
> > work. But then as most of my machines are built from a single image, a
> > firstboot method would not work anyway.
> >
>
> In cases like this, the only way that this would work is if the mirror
> system reported upstream (e.g. RHN satellite). There will always be
> sites like this, the only way I could see getting semi-accurate
> numbers on this would be a self-reporting method that would have to be
> non-anonymous and have a larger error bar when adding its numbers put
> into it.
>
> > I think the discussion of how to report metrics correctly needs to
> > wait for another day, and for the moment Fedora needs to use yum, and
> > if possible the firefox metric as well.
> >
>
> I guess another question management from above AND/OR FAB has to
> answer is how correct they need the numbers to be. At the moment the
> error range seems to be +/- 2 orders of magnitude, and needs to be
> reduced down to a linear function like +/- 10E4 systems. Knowing that
> FAB cares only for counts within say 10E4 systems means that you can
> use certain tools and not care about say trying to figure out the
> serial numbers of every system installed behind a firewall.
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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