X-Git-Url: http://git.freeside.biz/gitweb/?p=freeside.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=aaa90d4524266317dead8500f47d2255d4fe1e4c;hp=6d57aa09c2a6f9c23b7e4e283e9454af880e543d;hb=387f0b6a7ab855203fa88c08d1cb85ccb976e526;hpb=639f53025c49248c598a324814f6d77739bdfd89 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 6d57aa09c..aaa90d452 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.27 1999-04-09 03:52:16 ivan Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.44 2000-06-15 14:45:38 ivan Exp $ If you are interested in helping with any of these, please join the mailing list (send a blank message to ivan-freeside-subscribe@sisd.com) to avoid @@ -6,6 +6,499 @@ duplication of effort. --- +update the cybercash links in config.html and in the homepage. add more explicit support for other payment types. etc. + +From "Tim Jung" +. +Automatic CC Decline Notices via email +Block Time billing for prepaid internet cards (400 hours or whatever block +time of hours) +Trouble Ticket System with simple search function for Knowledge Base feature +Employee Timecards +Credit Card System support for Red Hat's CCVS, and other Linux credit card +programs +Contact Manager/Lead Tracking +Pre-Sale Quotes +Cisco NetFlow Account for IP traffic billing +VoIP and FoIP billing +Roaming per minute billing based on Radius Proxy support or number they +dialed into from Radius logs (800# etc) +Support for OpenSRS Domain Registration +Support for TUCOWS signup CDs + + +dbdef-create for postgres + +pro-rating, fiddling dates + +It looks like svc_acct.import doesn't deal well with comments and +multi-attribute lines. + +ivan@rootwood:~/freeside_current$ rgrep -r domuid * | cut -d: -f1 | sort | +uniq +CVS/Base/TODO +TODO +bin/fs-setup +bin/svc_acct_sm.export +bin/svc_acct_sm.import +htdocs/docs/man/svc_acct_sm.txt +htdocs/docs/schema.html +htdocs/edit/CVS/Base/part_svc.cgi +htdocs/edit/part_svc.cgi +htdocs/edit/process/svc_acct_sm.cgi +htdocs/edit/svc_acct_sm.cgi +htdocs/search/svc_acct_sm.cgi +htdocs/view/svc_acct_sm.cgi +site_perl/svc_acct_sm.pm + +rootwood:COMPLETEHOST/TODO + +Currently, you set a value in the %FS::UID::callback hash with a coderef +of the code you want to execute, but this was bad design and will shortly +be changed to a subroutine to which you pass your coderef to register it. + +This is not a bug, it is how the system is currently designed. After +defining a new package, you need to specifically allow agent types to +purchase packages. You can do this from the edit screen of the new agent +type. +. +It wouldn't be a bad idea to add a configuration value that makes new +packages available for all currently existing agent types automatically. +. +On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:50:35AM -0500, David Morton wrote: +> For some reason, the type_pkgs table didn't get updated when I tried to +> create a domain service and package... insert into type_pkgs values +> (4,1); fixed it up so that I could actually order the package. + + +From: Chuck Cochems +. +1) automated generating of late notices. So far the only way I know to +generate one is to re-invoice manually. +. +2) smart credit card rejection handling. It should e-mail a note at +least, explainig that it did't go through, and why. +. +3)coment field in the main customer record. +. +4) streamlined payment entry feature. the current scheme has it fairly +buried. +. +5) queries to show al customers who owe money,and such stuff as that. + + +credits aren't counted against past invoices? hmm. something needs to be +done to "apply payment" genericly. and zero out invoices etc. + +more email which should make it into a more organized TODO list: +. +I would also love to see Freeside support bandwidth billing by reading the +Cisco NetFlow Accounting data so we and other ISP's could automatically bill +co-located servers and even potentially other virtually hosted sites like +MUD, Palace Chat, IRC Chat, etc based on the bandwidth they use or average +sustained rates or whatever. I'm not much of a programmer so I don't know +what all this entails but I did download a NetFlow client agent/whatever for +Linux though. + . +It would also be nice to see Freeside be able to read Apache log files and +bill customers for web traffic that way as an option also. Plus an option to +bill for excessive disk usage without having to use quotas if you didn't +want to, would be a nice feature as well. So you could monitor with a script +or something to see how much disk space a user was using then get some +average and charge a certain amount for anything above some preset limit for +that account type. I might be able to hack something like this up, but I'm +not 100% sure where to start or if there is something out there that could +be modified or not. +. +Do you think that you will ever support the HKS CCVS (Hell's Kitchen +Software Credit Card Verification Software) since Red Hat bought them out +and is going to be including that for credit card processing when you buy +the professional version? What about possibly supporting the OpenCCVS which +is a GNU/GPL version of a credit card program? I haven't had time to comb +through the Freeside code to see how hard it would be to add support for +these as externally called programs. +. +Also any thoughts on help desk, and knowledge base stuff? Any thoughts on +this stuff, and how possible and what kinds of work or time frame would be +involved? +. +Tim Jung +System Admin +Internet Gateway Inc. +tjung@igateway.net + + + + CVS via SSH (Score:1) + by platinum (jedgar at fxp dot org) on Thursday September 30, @07:13PM EDT (#4) + (User Info) http://www.fxp.org/~jedgar + The links above are your best bet for basic cvs server configuration. Once you have a pserver set up, you + may consider using cvs via ssh. All you need to do is the following: + + 1) Have ssh and sshd set up on the client and server machines + 2) Set CVSROOT="joe@example.com:/home/ncvs" + 3) Set CVS_RSH="/usr/local/bin/ssh" + 4) Use cvs normally + (Obviously, insert the proper host/paths above) + + You can also set up cvs/ssh to not need a password every time (similiar to an initial 'cvs login'): + + 1) run ssh-keygen on client machine using no passphrase. + 2) copy/add ~/.ssh/identity.pub on the client to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server + (man ssh for more details) + + The main reason I mentio + CVS via SSH (Score:1) + by platinum (jedgar at fxp dot org) on Thursday September 30, @07:13PM EDT (#4) + (User Info) http://www.fxp.org/~jedgar + + +There's no way to do this currently, though it would be pretty +straightforward to modify the source - specifically, the _collect_ +subroutine in FS::cust_main. +> +On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:05:32PM -0700, Jeff Garner wrote: +> Freeside will e-mail my users when they are billed if they are setup as +> billing. +> +> When setup by credit card it does not e-mail them. Is there a way to +> turn on e-mail invoices for those who are billed via credit card? Kind +> of like a recipt of billing.... + + +doc: http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail.en.html + +sql1992.txt standard is 18 character column names. shoot for that, not just +32 (postgresql default) + +Also note that (AFAIK) Freeside won't display any package that has more +than one service on the "Add Customer" page. The reason for this is +because there's no way to dynamically alter the displayed html form +based on which package is selected. One possible solution would be to +make an additional page that's used in the signup process that would +display the form for each package, like a MS-style "Wizard". The first +page lets you select the package, then the second page has the custom +form with fields for each service in that package and a save button. Of +course, that would require a little perl work. +. +Later, +Scott Cruzen + + +Your suggested script with back up /usr/local/etc/freeside, but will miss +any database not named `freeside'. Both of our scripts are specific to +MySQL. If you're interested in contributing to Freeside, maybe you could +work on a script which: reads the mapsecrets configuration file and then +each secrets file to find out what specific database engine(s) (MySQL, +PostgreSQL, etc.) and database(s) need to be backed up, then does so, +serializing backups of the same engine, i.e. stop mysql, do all the mysql +backups, start mysql, stop postgresql, do all the postgresql backups, +start postgresql, etc. +> #!/bin/sh +> apachectl stop +> mysqldump -t freeside > fs-backup.sql +> apachectl start +> tar -Pzcvf fs-backup-`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`.tgz fs-backup.sql /usr/local/etc/freeside/ +> rm fs-backup.sql + +I chose to use counters in the filesystem because there is no standard way +to get the value of an auto-incrementing keyfield which is common across +all databases (as seen through DBI/DBD). +. +It certainly wouldn't be a bad idea to use the database-specific methods, +when available. + +htdocs/edit/svc_acct.cgi: +(Does the `*HIDDEN*' show up when you are adding a new account, and +specify the password, then receive an error and are returned to the form?) + +more DOC: +Thought some of you might be interested in this: + + has CyberCash compatibility modules for +Paymentnet and Authorizenet + which should allow you process transactions +using those services as well as CyberCash. + +The files are named CCLib.pm.paymentnet and CCLib.pm_authorizenet, +respectively, and are installed by renaming to CCLib.pm and moving to your +site_perl directory. Otherwise, follow the directions for Cybercash v2 in +htdocs/docs/config.html + +DOC: +fs_passwd/ is a client-server replacement for the `passwd', `chfn' and +`chsh' commands that updates the Freeside database. (so for that to be +useful, you'd have to be exporting that data periodically) + +fs_radlog/ is a client-server RADIUS log parser that stuffs the data into +SQL. It isn't finished, and probably won't be unless someone who I can't +convince to use one of the RADIUS daemons that logs to SQL directly pays +me money or something. + +fs_signup/ is a client-server signup server. i'm just finishing it up +now; probably isn't on your machine yet. + + +http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00812.html + +package definitions should be implicit allow wrt agent types, not implicit deny +(with the old behavior possible via a config file) + +> So is there anyway it could be setup to allow you to select a "primary +> service" from each package? This service would be the one you were prompted +> for. Could the signup server then be expanded to allow users to go into +> their package and "turn-on" the remaining non-primary services(using the +> primary account.) + +take the GPL'ed whois proxy stuff at www.geektools.com and turn it into +intelligence for Net::Whois. + +A web version of the fs_passwd stuff would be nifty. + +If you have Cistron authenticating directly from MySQL, you can replicate +in real-time instead of exporting periodically. See +. + +these go in docs: + (was 546), and + +and http://www.sisd.com/freeside/list-archive/msg00421.html (was 423) + +> > 5: Is there anyway to get freeside to send a sysadmin a warning when a +> > credit card has expired? +No, but there should be. + +Put this in the doc (quoting Mark Wells ): +>Of course, thanks to the sheer coolness of SQL and MyODBC, you can do +>whatever reports you want in basically whatever application you want. +>There's no need for Freeside itself to do any reports at all. + +middle names and titles + +On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Frank Nazario wrote: +> Playing and entering information to Freeside i encountered the following +> missing reports: +> +> View Customers by Agent +> +> View Pending Invoices +> + +grep 'uncomment this to encrypt password immediately' site_perl/svc_acct.pm +Not to say that it shouldn't be a configurable option. + +in site_perl/cust_main_invoice.pm (elsewhere?), error out if mydomain config file is gone +(at least until the idea of a default domain goes away) + +FS::Record::qsearch does an eval every loop iteration (which is itself not +guaranteed to work across all DBD's and should be fixed). This has got to be +slow. Fix it. (I think recent Perls might have a way to accept a variable +there, no eval needed?) + +Could you have added /bin/sync, /sbin/shutdown, and /bin/halt to the +`shells' configuration file before importing, and removed them afterwords? +(even better if svc_acct.import did that automatically - it could just +munge and restore @FS::svc_acct::shells... hmm.) + +> BTW, Ivan, I am trying to verify in an additional database table that a +> particular user doesn't exist. This database is used to store email aliases a$ +> additional POP boxes for our customers (kinda like AOL allows). I have toyed +> with the idea of just writing the aliases to an email only svc_acct that +> doesn't write to the password file, but that isn't really how I want to do it. + +Actually, I think that's a pretty good way to do it. Cerkit contributed +support a little while back for svc_acct.pm and svc_acct.export for +multiple export targets. It needs to be cleaned up and documented, which +I'll try to get to soon. For this to work correctly, the svc_acct_sm +table should go away, along with the concept of a "default" domain. + +default setting for new packages should allow all agents to purchase them... +with a config file for the old behaviour + +fix or replace Term::Query (Quiz::Question doesn't do what i need) + +Check config file reading stuff from CPAN + +Authorizenet module from CPAN! + + has a good y2k complience +statement! + + I'm hoping Freeside can support arbitrailly complex pricing plans + because of a simple concept: all prices are perl expressions. So if + you use `19.95' for example, perl evalates that to be `19.95'. But if + you need to do a complex pricing scheme, you just need to write an + appropriate perl expression, which will most likely pull data from the + database to return pricing. Some things will already log to SQL; for + example most RADIUS servers can or have a patch available. Getting + Freeside to bill based on any sort of data then becomes a matter of + importing the data into the database. + + There are some issues involved with pro-rating, partial month charges, + that sort of thing. Expressions will need a standard way to have the + applicable time/data ranges passed to them. Also the expressions are + currently running under the Safe perl module, and the opmask might not + be right in all situations. I'll try to spend some time working on + this if you are using it. + +> 2. can customers view their bills on-line. + +Not yet; it needs to be proxied from Freeside to a customer web server in +a secure way using something not completely unlike the fs_passwd, +fs_passwdd, fs_passwd_server trio. + + +> Lastly, if someone over pays on an invoice, the credit part does not flow +> over to other invoices.. + +The total balance flows over correctly, but individual payments don't. +The code you're looking for is in FS::cust_pay::insert + +The question of what to do with overpayments that don't have another +invoice to flow into (yet.. or possibly not) is still an open one. The +legacy system Freeside replaced long ago had a separate place for this +(payments waiting for an invoice) for each customer, and it gave our +bookeeper fits. + + +option to relax username uniqueness in favor of username+domain or mail/shell +vs. radius to ease import for isp's with namespace problems or who buy others. + +do i have to store anything for radius realms besides regular radius attributes +(which are handled fine now)? + +warn or complain or something when invoice_from is empty (and we use it) + +Right now Freeside uses the `freq' field of a package definition as a +number of months. The specific section of code you're looking for is in +FS::cust_main::bill: + + #change this bit to use Date::Manip? + #$sdate=$cust_pkg->bill || time; + #$sdate=$cust_pkg->bill || $time; + $sdate = $cust_pkg->bill || $cust_pkg->setup || $time; + my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = + (localtime($sdate) )[0,1,2,3,4,5]; + $mon += $part_pkg->getfield('freq'); + until ( $mon < 12 ) { $mon -= 12; $year++; } + $cust_pkg->setfield('bill', + timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year)); + $cust_pkg_mod_flag = 1; + +..and when I went poking for this, looks like it tells us just what needs +to be done! Hehehe... + +Date::Manip can handle cool things like "+ 1 month" (actually the current +case of /^(\d+)$/ would have to be added as a special case of "+ $1 +month") and "+ 30 days" (what you need) and even "+ 5 business days" ! + + +On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:38:16PM +0000, Kristian Hoffmann wrote: +> I can't quite seem to figure out how this exporting works. From what I +> understand, when you run svc_acct.export, it rewrites the /etc/passwd, +> /etc/shadow, etc. files. Is this only for initial setups with the +> export hooks being in the pm's? + +You can use both, or just one method. The configuration files control +this. One of the things in the TODO is to take out the last few things +that aren't customizable wrt this and put them in config files. + +http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/user-mgmt.html + +Term::Query doesn't install out of the box from CPAN. Fix it (and get it +submitted upstream!), or remove requirement from bin/svc_acct.import and +bin/svc_acct_sm.import and take it out of the install instructions. + +use this cool link to explain the Freeside API +ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/easy_objects.html + +Multiple tax rates by geographic region (county, state, and county) are +supported; just choose View/Edit tax rates from the main menu. + +Multiple tax rates by package are not (yet) supported. + +On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:13:36PM -0400, Shaun Batterton wrote: +> How would you handle something like multiple tax rates and multiple +> states? For example in Connecticut, they just changed computer and/or +> data processing services to 3% (whatever that is), and everything else +> is 6%. + + +> Second, when trying to add a new user I get two types of errors; first one +> is when I place an e-mail address and select the "submit," Freeside +> complains with "Error: Unknown local account (specified literally)" +. +You probably put a (local) email address in for email invoices. Freeside +stores these as references to the database records, so (for example) they +follow username changes. +. +I'm guessing you put in the email address that you were creating, and got +that error because it didn't exist yet. Sounds like a buglet to me. I'll +try to fix that soon; in the meantime you can add the invoicing email +address afterwords. + +(workaround for postgres before 6.5) (unlikely to ever be implemented) +In the mean-time, this could probably be fixed with the reverse of +the kludge in FS::Record::new. This removes `$' and `,' from money fields +coming out of the database. Something which fixed up the data so Postgres +was happy with it could go in FS::Record::_quote, for data going into the +database. + +our data display problem might be a Freeside problem wrt not using +Oracle-compatible DBI syntax (uses the return value from $sth->execute as +a number of rows). Fixing this is on the TODO. + +hooks for arbitrary commands out of configuration files +svc_acct.pm svc_acct_sm.pm etc. + +Add this to a FAQ, along with doing it for middle names: + + +> What I'm finding difficult is how to easily +> customize fields. For example, I am trying to add a "middle name" field +> to the Customer Edit, view, etc. If I'm going about it right, it appears +> I have to edit the cust_main.cgi under edit and edit/process and the +> site_perl/cust_main.pm, as well as other things. Perhaps you could shed +> some light on the best way of doing this. + +You have the basic idea. To implement that completely, I would: +- Add the new field to bin/fs-setup for new users +- Document the field in htdocs/docs/schema.html +- Document the change in a new file, htdocs/docs/upgrade4.html +* Run bin/dbdef-create +* Add the new field to edit/cust_main.cgi and edit/process/cust_main.cgi + +For bonus points, I'd grep around for the various bits which use "$first +$last" or "$last, $first" and replace them with a method call in cust_main.pm, + , like search/cust_main.cgi + +document security model: +Don't forget about Apache usernames - since, via the mapsecrets file, each +user can login to the SQL database with a different username and +password, you can utitilize the security model of the SQL database as +well. Also, each username here can point to a different configuration +directory where you could store user-specific configuration info. Then +you could link each username to one-to-many agents. +(The web demo works using a trivial version of this.) + +Yes, queue processing or the equivalent via checkpoint fields on various +talbes (which you pick up via a pretty simple SELECT) would be really +nice too. + +default (and ordering) state/county/country config file +expand the +cust_main_county table to provide a preferred ordering, so the most common +entries would be at the top of the selection box. automatically, based on +recent selections? + +hmm... maybe svc_acct__shell should check off the legal shells list if +applicable? yeah... cool. + +payinfo field should me much larger than 16 + + +[Mon Apr 12 20:31:21 1999] [error] [Mon Apr 12 20:31:21 1999] null: Error closing true: Broken pipe at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/FS/cust_main.pm line 615. + javascript (yuck!) "are you sure?" confirmation on cancelations, etc. (view/cust_pkg and view/svc_*)