ifconfig parsing issue (fedora >= 17)

[Remi Collet]

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853982

With patch attached, in .ocs file

    <HARDWARE>
...
      <DEFAULTGATEWAY>192.168.0.254</DEFAULTGATEWAY>
      <IPADDR>192.168.0.11/192.168.122.1</IPADDR>
...
    </HARDWARE>

    <NETWORKS>
      <DESCRIPTION>em1</DESCRIPTION>
      <DRIVER>r8169</DRIVER>
      <IPADDRESS>192.168.0.11</IPADDRESS>
      <IPDHCP></IPDHCP>
      <IPGATEWAY>192.168.0.254</IPGATEWAY>
      <IPMASK>255.255.255.0</IPMASK>
      <IPSUBNET>192.168.0.0</IPSUBNET>
      <MACADDR>20:cf:30:ec:c8:89</MACADDR>
      <PCISLOT>0000:02:00.0</PCISLOT>
      <STATUS>Up</STATUS>
      <TYPE>Ethernet</TYPE>
      <VIRTUALDEV></VIRTUALDEV>
    </NETWORKS>

[Frank (frank-bourdeau)]

already corrected in trunk version

[Remi Collet (remicollet)]

Revision 1112 is not enough.

Missing TYPE, and STATUS

[Remi Collet (remicollet)]

Revision 1123 still doesn't work...

Status still "down" for running interface.
Type is "ether" when "Ethernet" is expected.

Please consider the regex used if the proposed patch, as this works.

[mortheres (mortheres)]

Hi Remi,

Thanks a lot for your patch. The regexp has been committed in revision 1134 of the trunk branch to enhance revision 1112 : http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ocsinventory-dev/ocsinventory-unix-agent/trunk/revision/1134 . It should works as expected now :) :).

Kind regards,

Guillaume

[Remi Collet (remicollet)]

Thanks for the status which is now OK.

Type still not correct.
Please consider attached patch.

[Eric Germán Burgueño (nevermind85)]

This patch is a regression. It breaks CentOS and RedHat 6 (and possibly other distros) which still report "inet addr":

# ocsinventory-agent --version
Ocsinventory unified agent for UNIX, Linux and MacOSX (2.1)
# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
Kernel \r on an \m
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:8E:10:84
          inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x

Using
#if(/^\s*inet\s*(\S+)\s*netmask/){
returns empty IP on the HARDWARE info

Using
if(/^\s*inet add?r\s*:\s*(\S+)/ || /^\s*inet\s+(\S+)/){
works as expected.

[Remi Collet (remicollet)]

Confirmed on RHEL-6.5

# ifconfig
...
          inet adr:192.168.122.30 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Masque:255.255.255.0
...

# grep IPADD agent205.ocs
      <IPADDR>192.168.122.30</IPADDR>
      <IPADDRESS>192.168.122.30</IPADDRESS>

# grep IPADD agent210.ocs
      <IPADDR></IPADDR>
      <IPADDRESS>192.168.122.30</IPADDRESS>

[Eric Germán Burgueño (nevermind85)]

I have just downloaded version 2.1.1 from trunk (revision 1189) and this bug still exists. IP is not being reported for RedHat 6.5 servers.

[Eric Germán Burgueño (nevermind85)]

This bug still exists with revision 1191. You need to please stop using ifconfig. It is deprecated and not included in CentOS 7 nor RedHat 7 unless manually installed. The whole network section disappears!