# 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 TODO. ## 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 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: * nmap, for ICMP 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 * POE::Component::Client::Ping * URI::Escape ## Contacts Project websites: * main site: * forge: Project mailing lists: * * Project IRC channel: * #FusionInventory on FreeNode IRC Network Please report any issues on project forge bugtracker. ## Authors * Gonéri Le Bouder * Guillaume Rousse Copyright 2006-2010 OCS Inventory contributors Copyright 2010-2012 FusionInventory Team Copyright 2011 TECLIB' ( http://www.teclib.com ) ## 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: * author: Thomas Liske * copyright: 2008 IBH IT-Service GmbH * License: GPLv2+