The wizard configured five of the product's 129 settings. A site that finished
it still had no timezone, no authentication, no mail server, no backup
destination and no endpoint agent policy, and nothing told the operator so.
Six steps now: Administrator, Site, Authentication, Features, Mail and Backups,
Review. Everything else moves to a standing setup checklist at
/settings/setupchecklist, because a wizard that asked for all 129 settings would
be worse than one that asked for none.
Two new endpoints back it. /setup/checklist reports twelve areas as
ok/partial/todo/na with a link to the page that fixes each, and /setup/health
reports account counts plus whether a plugin toggle has reached every worker.
Both take care not to lie:
- Several settings are SEEDED non-empty (the shipped logo, a placeholder floor
plan, every identifier field), so "is it set" compares against the shipped
default rather than emptiness.
- plugin.endpoints.sharedkeyallowed DEFAULTS TO ALLOWED when its row is absent,
so an absent row is reported as the fleet-wide key being accepted. Reporting
it as refused told an admin the opposite of the truth about the credential
they are migrating away from.
- A plugin is held at "starting" until several DISTINCT workers report it live.
Counting replies instead let one recycled worker answer four times and declare
a change complete while other workers still served the old routes.
Recommended plugins are declared in each plugin's manifest rather than listed in
the wizard, so adding a plugin cannot leave a stale list in another file.
Also fixed: the logo preview was invisible, because the image borrowed a class
that hardcodes a white background while the shipped logo is white; and signing
in did not re-read setup state, so an admin already browsing was never steered
to the wizard and a hard refresh was the only cure.
main was 16 days and 259 commits behind the line the product is actually built
on, at contract 0.30.0 against 0.35.0, with no per-PC credential code at all. It
was neither current nor curated - just stale. This brings it forward and, at the
same time, makes it mean something: main is what a receiving site installs, and
nothing else.
WHAT IT CARRIES. Twelve plugins - backups, computers, endpoints, guides,
knowledgebase, machines, network, notifications, printers, slides, tools,
warranty - plus applications, which is manifest-less core and always ships. The
only manifest dependency inside that set is endpoints on computers, and both are
in it, so the closure is self-contained.
WHAT IT DOES NOT. employees, geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and usb
stay on the site line. So do the Windows installer tree, the VM rehearsal
helpers, the agent tooling config, one site's data loader, the internal audit
and findings records, and the planner spreadsheet. 1,135 tracked files against
1,438.
A REMOVAL THAT BREAKS THE APP IS NOT A REMOVAL, and two nearly shipped:
deploy/site-profile-universal.json still named all seventeen plugins. It is the
file docs/DEPLOY.md tells a site to provision from, so a fresh install would
have failed at `flask plugin apply-profile` with PluginError - the first thing a
receiving site does, broken by the branch meant to serve them. It now names the
twelve that exist, and its comment says the two must agree.
agent/ was never refreshed. Whoever populated this branch copied shopdb/,
plugins/, frontend/ and tests/ from the site line and left the agent tree at its
September state: 22 C# and PowerShell sources missing, including AgentCredentials,
EnrollmentService, AgentHttpFactory and the fleet-alert client, plus one file the
site line had deleted still present. The old tree is internally consistent, so it
compiles, and nothing in CI builds it - every gate was green over a server that
speaks enrollment and per-PC credentials to a bundled agent source that cannot.
Resynced whole.
DECISIONS THIS ENCODES, rather than defers:
- The plugin-authoring lab builds printedparts, whose manifest depends on
employees, so it could not stay. The lab remains on the site line and main
ships no build-along tutorial. That is a real loss for an adopting developer
and is recorded here rather than discovered later.
- Recognition, Training and Recertification notifications are no longer seeded.
Each splits one notification into a card per employee and renders a photo,
which needs a plugin this branch does not bundle. Seeding them would offer an
author a type that cannot resolve anybody. A site that installs employees gets
them from that plugin's own seed.
- Windows/IIS is documented as the legacy path throughout, and the README leads
with Docker, because that is what a receiving site gets.
The API description is regenerated for THIS branch - 347 paths and 483
operations, down from 415 and 573 - so the published contract describes what is
here rather than what the site line serves. docs/CONFIG.md lost the two
measuring-tool label keys the code no longer declares, which two lanes had
decided opposite ways.
Suite: 3124 passed, 6 skipped. Naming and style gates pass. The docs gates run
rather than skip, and every index line count is derived from the file it names.
The board was one card per source in a fixed grid: every source got the same
small box whatever it had to say (warranties showed 5 of 50), and a box per
source flattened priority, while the largest type on the page belonged to counts
that need nobody.
Now a severity rollup, one worst-first queue of everything needing a person, and
a row of context beneath. The queue is full width, capped per source so a noisy
check cannot bury a rare one, and names what did not fit with a link to it. Chips
filter the queue by check as well as by severity; both narrow what is already
loaded, so the counts and rows cannot disagree.
Dropped: an 'All assets' tile shown beside its own four addends, a printer strip
carrying the same count a third time, three cards whose job was to display 0, and
a Recent Devices table listing five machines all 'In Use'.
Contract 0.26.0 adds optional 'shortname' on dashboard cards - a title is written
as a heading and ran wider than the hostname it qualified as a row badge.
Also: the supplies card reported 'Low Supplies 0' when Zabbix was unreachable,
which reads as reassurance rather than the truth that nothing could see the
cartridges. It now distinguishes unreachable (says so) from unconfigured (stays
quiet - the site declined the feature) from a real zero.
Full suite 2182 passed, frontend 314 passed.
