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 			FusionInventory Agent
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+Description
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+The fusioinventory agent is a generic agent, running on each managed node. It
+can perform a certain number of actions, called tasks, according to its own
+execution plan, or on behalf of a GLPI server with fusioninventory plugin,
+acting as a control point.
+
+Two of these tasks are included in agent source distribution, local inventory
+and wake on lan. Other tasks are distributed separatly, excepted for binary
+distributions where they are bundled together.
+
 Dependencies
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