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cproudlock 2f98188feb Let a site close the legacy collector routes, once it can afford to
Turning "Shared key allowed" off refused the key on the endpoints plugin and
left four core collector routes open to it. Anything still holding the old key
could keep rewriting logged-in user, last boot time, serial number and installed
app inventory for ANY hostname, while the admin believed the shared key was off.
Data integrity only - no command execution, no credential issuance - but it is a
hole in a boundary the product advertises as closed.

It cannot simply be closed. Both GE-Enforce reporters still authenticate with
that key, so refusing it fleet-wide would stop asset and printer reporting
everywhere, and on an air-gapped site mid-migration that is the wrong order of
operations. collector.legacysharedkeyrefused therefore DEFAULTS TO TODAY'S
BEHAVIOUR, and its description names exactly what turning it on breaks and when
it should be turned on: after the reporters move to per-PC credentials, not
before.

A legacy route used with the shared key now logs a warning, so a site can find
out who still depends on the key before flipping anything. On a stock Windows
deployment that warning may name the proxy rather than the caller; the token
prefix in the same line is the identifier to go by.

The switch is seeded with the core defaults and has a control on the
authentication settings page. Undeclared, it was a row that did not exist, and
this UI has no generic key/value editor, so seeding alone would have rendered
nothing for an operator to click.

Two contract declarations corrected while in here:

notifications.alertscope was declared db.JSON in the model while the migration
that creates it ships TEXT, and those migrations state the constraint in their
own docstrings: no JSON columns. The model now matches the shipped column rather
than the schema being bent to the model.

usb and printedparts both import a name that arrived in contract 0.35.0 while
declaring core_version floors of 0.1.0 and 0.16.0, so the loader would have
accepted them on a core that cannot satisfy them - an ImportError at blueprint
registration instead of a refusal with a reason. Both floors now say what the
plugin actually needs.
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USB plugin - CMMC USB check-in/out database contract

The USB plugin tracks removable-media check-in/out for CMMC compliance. Device and log state live in a separate, read-write MySQL database (cmmc_usb), reached with parameterized pymysql via cmmc_usb_connection(). Names of people are resolved from the HR employee directory (see the employees plugin).

The plugin's own reference tables (usbdevicetypes, usbdevices, usbcheckouts) live in the main app database; only the live check-in/out data is in cmmc_usb.

The schema is standardized across sites - the cmmc_usb check-in/out solution is the same deployment everywhere, so the tables below match as-is and no schema adaptation is needed. The database name may differ per site, though - set cmmc_usb_db_name (default cmmc_usb) to match the local name. The view recipe at the end is only a fallback for a site that somehow differs. (Contrast the employee directory, which genuinely varies per site.)

Connection

Credentials resolve settings-first, then environment, except the password which is env-only (never stored in the app database).

Field Setting key (editable in the setup wizard) Env var (fallback)
Host cmmc_usb_db_host CMMC_USB_DB_HOST
Database cmmc_usb_db_name CMMC_USB_DB_NAME
User cmmc_usb_db_user CMMC_USB_DB_USER
Password (not stored) CMMC_USB_DB_PASSWORD

Set the password in .env; the setup wizard's Features step shows the exact line to paste. This database is read-write - the app account needs SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE. Engine is MySQL/MariaDB (pymysql).

Required schema

The plugin runs raw SQL against these tables (or views - see below).

devices

Column Type Notes
device_id VARCHAR Primary key; the device serial/tag
device_desc VARCHAR Description
device_owner VARCHAR Owner
status VARCHAR Check-in/out state
locker_location VARCHAR Where the device is stored

Operations: SELECT (list + by id), INSERT (register device), UPDATE (edit fields, change status).

checkinoutlog

Column Type Notes
log_id INT (PK) Auto id
badge_number VARCHAR Person's badge
device_id VARCHAR FK to devices.device_id
action VARCHAR check-in / check-out
timestamp DATETIME When it happened
scanned_viruses (text/int) Scan result
locker_location VARCHAR Locker at time of event
sanitized (bool/int) Sanitization flag

Operations: SELECT (history per device), INSERT (log an event).

users

Column Type Notes
badge_number VARCHAR Primary key; the scanned badge
first_name VARCHAR Given name
last_name VARCHAR Surname

Operations: SELECT by badge, INSERT (auto-add a badge on first scan).

Employee directory dependency

To turn a scanned badge into a name, the plugin also reads the HR employees directory (via the employees plugin's connection). A badge shaped 0<digits>BZ carries a PayNo (the digits); lookups try employees.SSO and employees.PayNo. See plugins/employees/README.md for that schema and connection.

Sites whose USB-tracking database uses different table/column names should create read-only/updatable views named devices, checkinoutlog, and users that map local columns to the names above. Example:

CREATE VIEW devices AS
SELECT
  asset_tag     AS device_id,
  description   AS device_desc,
  owner         AS device_owner,
  state         AS status,
  storage_bay   AS locker_location
FROM usb_assets;

Because the plugin writes to devices/checkinoutlog/users, either make the views updatable (single-table views usually are) or expose real tables with these column names. Grant the app account SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE.

Notes:

  • device_id and badge_number are the natural keys the plugin matches on.
  • If cmmc_usb is unreachable, USB endpoints return an error and the rest of the app keeps working (the feature degrades, it does not crash the app).