FusionInventory Agent
Summary
The FusionInventory agent is a generic management agent. It can perform a certain number of tasks, according to its own execution plan, or on behalf of a GLPI server with fusioninventory plugin, acting as a control point.
Description
See FusionInventory solution overview
Dependencies
Core
Minimum perl version: 5.8
Mandatory Perl modules:
- File::Which
- LWP::UserAgent
- Net::IP
- Text::Template
- UNIVERSAL::require
- XML::TreePP
Optional Perl modules:
- Compress::Zlib, for message compression
- HTTP::Daemon, for web interface
- IO::Socket::SSL, for HTTPS support
- LWP::Protocol::https, for HTTPS support
- Proc::Daemon, for daemon mode (Unix only)
- Proc::PID::File, for daemon mode (Unix only)
Inventory task
Optional Perl modules:
- Net::CUPS, for printers detection
- Parse::EDID, for EDID data parsing
- DateTime, for reliable timezone name extraction
Optional programs:
- dmidecode, for DMI data retrieval
- lspci, for PCI bus scanning
- hdparm, for additional disk drive info retrieval
- monitor-get-edid-using-vbe, monitor-get-edid or get-edid, for EDID data access
- ssh-keyscan, for host SSH public key retrieval
Network discovery tasks
Mandatory Perl modules:
- Thread::Queue
Optional Perl modules:
- Net::NBName, for NetBios method support
- Net::SNMP, for SNMP method support
Optional programs:
- arp, for arp table lookup method support
Network inventory tasks
Mandatory Perl modules:
- Net::SNMP
- Thread::Queue
Optional Perl modules:
- Crypt::DES, for SNMPv3 support
Wake on LAN task
Optional Perl modules:
- Net::Write::Layer2, for ethernet method support
Deploy task
Mandatory Perl modules:
- Archive::Extract
- Digest::SHA
- File::Copy::Recursive
- JSON::PP
- URI::Escape
Mandatory Perl modules for P2P Support:
- Net::Ping
- Parallel::ForkManager
Related contribs
See CONTRIB to find references to FusionInventory Agent related scritps/files
Contacts
Project websites:
- main site: http://www.fusioninventory.org
- forge: http://forge.fusioninventory.org
Project mailing lists:
- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-user
- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
Project IRC channel:
- #FusionInventory on FreeNode IRC Network
Please report any issues on project forge bugtracker.
Active authors
- Guillaume Rousse guillomovitch@gmail.com
- Guillaume Bougard gbougard@teclib.com
Copyright 2006-2010 OCS Inventory contributors
Copyright 2010-2019 FusionInventory Team
Copyright 2011-2019 Teclib Editions
License
This software is licensed under the terms of GPLv2+, see LICENSE file for details.
Additional pieces of software
The fusioninventory-injector script:
- author: Pascal Danek
- copyright: 2005 Pascal Danek
FusionInventory::Agent::Task::Inventory::Input::Virtualization::Vmsystem contains code from imvirt:
- url: http://micky.ibh.net/~liske/imvirt.html
- author: Thomas Liske liske@ibh.de
- copyright: 2008 IBH IT-Service GmbH http://www.ibh.de/
- License: GPLv2+