FAQ

On which platforms is the FusionInventory agent available?

The agent is available on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX. The agent shares the same codebase on all these platforms.

Is it possible to send an inventory to multiple servers with FusionInventory agent?

Yes. In the agent configuration file, you can define several servers to communicate with. For the 2.x series of the agent, this is done by a comma separated list of URLs. There is no limit on the number of servers which can be configured.
For example to communicate with three servers : FusionInventory Server for GLPI 0.72 and 0.78, and OCSInventory server :
server=http://glpi072/plugins/fusioninventory/front/plugin_fusioninventory.communication.php, http://glpi078/plugins/fusioninventory/, http://ocsinventory-ng/ocsinventory
The 2.x series of agent will contact each server in the order defined in the configuration file, perform the action asked by each server. For example, if the inventory is asked by all of the three servers, inventory will be done three times.

Is FusionInventory agent compatible with OCS Inventory NG Server?

Yes. You can use FusionInventory Agent with OCS Inventory NG Server 1.x. To use it with OCS Inventory Sever 2.0.x, you need to allow FusionInventory user agents.

Please note that FusionInventory-Agent doesn’t support OCS’s IP Discover feature, and that OCS Deployment module is now deprecated and will not be developped anymore.

If you’re looking for a software deployment solution, FusionInventory provides it’s own, which is integrated into GLPI.

Is it possible to force the next run of FusionInventory agent to be executed now?

Yes. When running as a daemon, the agent runs a web server waiting for wake-up commands.

Is it possible to schedule the execution of FusionInventory agent from the GLPI server?

No. The FusionInventory Server for GLPI 0.72 can not schedule regular wake-up of the agent. This feature will be available with FusionInventory Server for GLPI 0.78. The PHP library will not include this feature for the moment.

What are the items inventoried by FusionInventory agent on a computer?

On a computer, the local agent does the inventory of hardware and software : informations about internal components like BIOS, RAM, CPUs, disks, controllers, network interfaces, informations about external components like mice, keyboards, screens, USB devices, printers, batteries, informations about operating systems and softwares installed, including antiviruses and virtual machines. For the full list of data retrieved see the documentation on CPAN. http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/FusionInventory-Agent/FusionInventory/Agent/XML/Query/Inventory.html

What are the items inventoried by FusionInventory agent on a printer?

A printer can be inventoried either locally, or with SNMP. In both cases the inventory includes name, ports, and serial in some cases. SNMP inventory harvest more informations : serial number, RAM, page count, cartridge status.

What are the item inventoried by FusionInventory agent on a network switch?

A switch is inventoried with SNMP. Data collected are : RAM, CPU, model, firmware version, status of the network ports.

Can FusionInventory retreive network devices connected on a newtork port?

Yes. A model needs to be done in order to correctly inventory network devices and retrieve ports and mac addresses connected on it. For the moment, only Cisco and HP are fully supported : the other have partial support.

Is FusionInventory agent compatible with all versions of Windows?

Yes. The agent supports all of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 SP4, including desktop and server variants, and both 32 and 64 bit versions. SNMP and WakeOnLan is also available on this platform.

Which versions of the SNMP protocol are supported by FusionInventory ?

FusionInventory supports SNMP v1, v2c and v3.

Is FusionInventory agent compatible with all character sets?

Yes. Every inventory informations are translated from the native character set of the OS into UTF-8. All inventory informations are sent to the server in UTF-8 format, so every language is supported.

Which projects currently use FusionInventory agent?

Uranos (http://uranos.sourceforge.net) and Artica (http://artica.fr) use our agent.

How many people are involved in the FusionInventory project?

A dozen of people are currenlty working on the project as developers, packagers, testers.

How can I contact the FusionInventory developers?

Please read this page on our site : http://fusioninventory.org/wordpress/contact/

The FusionInventory project has it’s own forge: http://forge.fusioninventory.org/. The source code is also available on github and gitorious. If you want to help, just contact us on IRC or on our development mailing-list.

Is documentation available?

Documentation is currenlty being written and we’re looking for contributors (native english speakers, and translators). If you’re interested in helping us, just contact the team!

Please find more informations about it here : http://fusioninventory.org/wordpress/documentation/