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'''WAPT''' allows you to perform installations, updates and deletions on distant workstations.
'''WAPT''' allows you to perform installations, updates and deletions on distant workstations.


It is also possible to run custom python scripts on workstations, such as [[Network_Time_Protocol|time synchronization]], [[Printer_(computing)|print parameters], [[File_system_permissions|permissions]] changement or entries additions in the [[Windows_Registry|registry]].
It is also possible to run custom python scripts on workstations, such as [[Network_Time_Protocol|time synchronization]], [[Printer_(computing)|print]] parameters, [[File_system_permissions|permissions]] changement or entries additions in the [[Windows_Registry|registry]].

Revision as of 13:41, 8 February 2019

WAPT
Developer(s)Tranquil IT
Initial releaseFebruary 2015; 9 years ago (2015-02)
Stable release
1.6.2.8 / October 9, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-10-09)
Written inPascal, Python
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Linux
TypeDeployment Software
LicenseGNU GPL and Proprietary_software
Websitetranquil.it

WAPT[1] is an automated deployment, update and removal software of packages for Windows.

It can be used to install software packages such as installers, service packs, hotfixes from a WAPT central server or replicated web servers.

It can be run as a service, to install software in the background, without interaction with the user. Configured as such, it can work even if the user who opens the session does not have administrator's privileges. Packages are downloaded during the day and installations are automatically launched in the evening.

WAPT allows you to package installers such as MSI, Installshield, Inno Setup, NSIS files. Or configurations such as register keys, INI files and executable files without installers, etc.

WAPT can also offer a software catalog in the wapt repository to those who aren't administrators of their workstation.

On February 14, 2018, the WAPT software received the First Level Security Certification from the National Cybersecurity Agency of France ("Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information" in french) for the 1.5.0.13 version of WAPT Enterprise [2].

History

The WAPT project was launched in April 2012. The name WAPT is a neologism derived from the concatenation of the initial of Windows and the name of the tool Apt-Get. Apt-Get is the package installation tool for Debian operating systems and its derivatives such as Ubuntu. The initial objective was to adapt, to Windows, the Debian Software Deployment Tool. In its early versions, WAPT could only be used on the command line using the command wapt-get.exe, and did not have a running agent as a service. Plus, like Apt-Get on Linux, these first versions of the utility wapt-get.exe did not allow remote control from a centralized console, nor did they allow inventory operations or feedbacks on package's installation status.

The WAPT 1.0.0 version was released in February 2015 and had at the same time : an administration console, basic inventory management and a WaptAgent service on Windows workstations. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 arrived quickly in the following year to fix bugs reported by an increasingly community of users.

In November 2016, the verson 1.3 of WAPT was released, which, with its under-versions, remained the major consumer version for a year and a half. This is the most widely deployed version currently available. It has benefited from a large set of corrective measures. She provided support for Centos7 servers in addition to Debian, Ubuntu and Windows servers.

The 1.5.0 version of WAPT was an intermediate version published only in an "Enterprise" version and used as basis for the passage of the National Cybersecurity Agency of France first Level Security Certification.

WAPT 1.5.1 was released in March 2018 and introduced several technological changes:

  • The MongoDB database is replaced by a PostgreSQL one
  • the connection between the console and the agent is no longer made through an open port on the agent, but through a WebSocket that remains open on the WAPT server
  • packet's digital signature has been improved for greater security and the SHA-1 hash algorithm has been replaced by SHA-2
  • the Apache 2 web server has been replaced by Nginx which better manages large numbers of WebSocket
  • only 64bit servers are now supported

An exhaustive changelog is available in the WAPT documentation [3] itself

Overview of WAPT

WAPT allows you to perform installations, updates and deletions on distant workstations.

It is also possible to run custom python scripts on workstations, such as time synchronization, print parameters, permissions changement or entries additions in the registry.