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:

Project IRC channel:

#FusionInventory on FreeNode IRC Network

Please report any issues on project forge bugtracker.

Active authors

Guillaume Rousse [email protected]
Guillaume Bougard [email protected]

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

FusionInventory::Agent::Task::Inventory::Input::Virtualization::Vmsystem contains code from imvirt:

url: http://micky.ibh.net/~liske/imvirt.html
author: Thomas Liske [email protected]
License: GPLv2+

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