Standalone Mode Questions

[Jonathan K]

Hello,

I have a few questions about Prey Standalone:

• Do you need a Control Panel account?
• How do you choose what modules are activated when prey gets a 404?
• How do you make turn on lock/alarm/secure/alert?
• How do you get a hardware scan?
• Where are images stored? In my E-mail?
• How do I set the time interval?
• How do you make prey auto-update?
• What do the reports look like?
• How do I enable Offline Actions?
• How do you set it up?

Thank you!

[Drew Reece]

'scuse the inlining …

On 3 Jun 2011, at 03:47, Jonathan K wrote:

Hello,

I have a few questions about Prey Standalone:

• Do you need a Control Panel account?

No but it helps to have one to see & create an xml file

The xml can be on your server if you want, if it is an empty file prey will still be triggered based on the 404 or 200 status, but the modules won't be changeable.

• How do you choose what modules are activated when prey gets a 404?

Either in the xml (<-I'm only 85% sure this is true, sry) or hardcoded in the config files in prey/config & inside the modules/xxxxxx folders.

• How do you make turn on lock/alarm/secure/alert?
• How do you get a hardware scan?

Same as above.

• Where are images stored? In my E-mail?

Yep.

• How do I set the time interval?

In the config or xml.

• How do you make prey auto-update?
• What do the reports look like?

Emails with some report stuff in them! 

• How do I enable Offline Actions?

In config text files is where all the answers reside.

• How do you set it up?

Install, select standalone, enter details & test.

I'd suggest starting with a free control panel account to see how it works, there are in installers with all the computer versions, or you can just edit the config files. You do need root (sudo or a Windows administrator account) to edit the configs. You can also use the CP for activation but set up email reporting if you are worried about sending reports to Preys server.

Drew

Thank you!

[Jonathan K]

Sorry, but 2 more questions:

Where is the prey/xxxxxx folder? 

What is in the XML file? Con you give me an example?

[Drew Reece]

Set up a control panel account, install Prey & add the username & password in the installer. It will setup the config for use with the control panel. 

Take a look in the control panel & you will see a device ID. The path to the XML file will be 

http://control.preyproject.com/devices/DEVICEID.xml

I don't think there is a spec for the XML, so you need to tweak the CP settings & see what values you want to use when you change over to your own server. Read the warnings about the actions before you enable them.

Prey will be installed to…

/usr/share/prey (Linux, Mac)

C:\\prey\ (Windows)

The prey folder contains the main config, you set the control panel url in there & the post method (eg email or http to the Control Panel).

There are configs for each module too, look in the /prey/modules/modulename/configs if you are planning on not using the XML control feature on your own server. 

On a Pro (https connection & a random subdomain I think) account the xml looks like…

 <device>

  <status>
    <missing>true</missing>
  </status>
  <configuration>
    <delay>5</delay>
    <current_release>0.5.3</current_release>
    <post_url>https://randomsubdomain.control.preyproject.com/devices/deviceid/reports.xml</post_url>
  </configuration>
  <modules>
    <module type="report" name="geo" version="1.6" active="true"/>
    <module type="report" name="network" version="1.5" active="true">
      <get_nearby_wifi_hotspots>n</get_nearby_wifi_hotspots>
      <trace_route>y</trace_route>
      <get_active_connections>y</get_active_connections>
    </module>
  </modules>
</device>

There are many combinations that are not in that XML, they show up when enabled. There are also many ways to set up Prey eg

Control Panel only

Control Panel with reporting going to email

Standalone with fixed config (no XML instructions in the server file)

Standalone with server based XML control

Post back when you need more info :)

Drew

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[Tomás Pollak]

Hello Jonathan,

A long time ago there was no Control Panel so basically there was no
way of (easily) modifying those settings -- modules, interval, offline
actions, etc. So people started asking for it and that's how it came
to life.

You can still run Prey in Standalone mode in case you want to keep
full control over the data that Prey collects (ie. the images are sent
directly to your email, not to a server), but if you want to be able
to easily manage and track your device, then my suggestion is to use
Prey with the Control Panel.

Just my humble opinion. :)

Regards,
Tom

PS. There's also a video on our homepage that shows a couple of those
things in action.

On Jun 2, 10:47 pm, Jonathan K <kulboy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few questions about Prey Standalone:
>

>    - Do you need a Control Panel account?
>    - How do you choose what modules are activated when prey gets a 404?
>    - How do you make turn on lock/alarm/secure/alert?
>    - How do you get a hardware scan?
>    - Where are images stored? In my E-mail?
>    - How do I set the time interval?
>    - How do you make prey auto-update?
>    - What do the reports look like?
>    - How do I enable Offline Actions?
>    - How do you set it up?
>
> Thank you!