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
• Github org: http://github.com/fusioninventory/

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 Github.

Copyrights

Copyright 2006-2010 OCS Inventory contributors

Copyright 2010-2021 FusionInventory Team

Copyright 2011-2021 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+