Dust off and nuke emc plugin from orbit

[bmr-cymru]

The emc plugin has a range of problems:

• Interacts with terminal ignoring --batch
• dated API usage
• Questionable data collection (opaque binary data with no public spec)

Filing issue as a placeholder for a full review.

[adam-stokes]

I think we can simplify this plugin a bit, removing the prints and other cruft.. I think it can be easily updated to use the latest api as well. The questionable data collection point though is probably what we want to decide if we care about or not

Im willing to update this plugin if @bmr-cymru decides to keep it

[bmr-cymru]

The ideas I had were roughly:

• split the plugin up so that separate EMC products are in separate plugins
• Remove all the report text cruft - I really don't see a need for this
• The interactive prompting is a problem & needs to die. I started working on a design for an interactive prompts API but it's not implemented yet; the short version is that if a plugin requests an option that's not been set and we're not in --batch mode it will generate an interactive prompt. I can see this being useful in a few places.

[adam-stokes]

i have little to no knowledge of EMC products, maybe we can email the author directly and see if he's willing to re-work it?

[bmr-cymru]

I'd rather it was someone with good knowledge of sos - I'm happy to do it (I've a passing familiarity with most EMC stuff ;-))

[adam-stokes]

sounds good to meh

[bmr-cymru]

This is mostly fixed now; just the interactive prompting in navicli left.

[adam-stokes]

👍 yay