AUP Informant Status Update [Feb 2019]

[bizzel]

It's official: I'm restarting work on AUP Informant now that EduSweep 2.6 is out the door. In fact, I started to think about AUP Informant at the very start of this year.

 

This will be a big change so AUP Informant is moving to version 3.0 with the following planned features:

 

• Distributed functionality: a minimal server app (aupd), the client app and a 'toolkit' app to extract data and generate reports
  
• Run-as-service support for the server application (often requested!)
  
• Windows 7, 8, 10 support for the client application
  
• Optional Docker container for deploying the server application
  
• Direct Connect option for VLAN and multi-subnet support
  
• Better support for terminal services environments
  
• Open protocol allows for third-party/alternative client apps
  
• JSON-based config files, if you want to go in and tweak settings with a text editor
  
• Source code, downloads and issue tracking hosted on GitHub
  
• Source available as GPLv3 code
  
• Full documentation
  

 

Importantly, this is still a way off. I am still in the early stages of defining protocols, reorganising the old application code and building the server. If you have comments and/or feature requests then now is the time to get them to me! Later in the year I will look for one or two partner schools to try a beta version and we will go from there. You can reach me in this thread, by PM or using the contact form at https://www.paulbeesley.com/contact

 

Thanks,

Paul

Edited February 26, 2019 by bizzel

[OLPTech]

Hey is this something still being worked on? Would be happy to beta test it.