Features

FusionInventory is used to inventory your IT assets (get all possible data) to simply manage it, like with GLPI.

Computers inventory

FusionInventory is able to make a complete inventory of computers: hardware and software.

An agent must be installed on each computer to do this.

It can be installed on many systems:

Windows 32 and 64 bits since version 2000
Linux 32 and 64 bits
*BSD
AIX
HP-UX
Solaris

You can see screenchots of result into GLPI here.

Network discovery

FusionInventory can scan and discover all devices connected to the network. it use the protocols:

NMAP
NetBIOS
SNMP

During this step, it identify:

Network information
Windows domain information
SNMP device name (sysdesc)

Inventory remote devices by SNMP

FusionInventory can inventory devices with SNMP protocol:

Identify devices remotly (switch, router, printer…)
Inventory devices using SNMP
Get all important informations

For the switch, it get:

Network switch

Serial number
Manufacturer
Model
Firmware
Mac address
CPU/RAM load
etc

Switch port

Name
Network speed
Port status (enabled / disabled
Errors input & output
VLAN
Trunk (tagged)
Active connection

Connections per port

Mac addresses, one or many on some case
LLDP and CDP neighborhood, dialog and information between switches

You can see screenchots of switch into GLPI here.

For the printer, it get:

Get printer information

Serial number
Manufacturer
Model
Firmware
Memory
Mac address
etc

Additional important information

Get cartridges ink level
Page counter

You can see screenchots of printer into GLPI here.

Wake up computers with Wake On Lan

FusionInventory is able to wake a computer by another computer (server order an agent installed on a computer witch send magic pocket To another computer)

Inventory remote vCenter/ESX/ESXi

FusionInventory is able to connect to the machine using
VMware SOAP API to get:

Hardware inventory
VirtualMachine list

Deploy packages

FusionInventory is a multi-platform solution for software deployment. It features:

package definition and upload in GLPI
possible use of P2P to deploy files
low bandwith management
define deployment targets (a computer or a set of computer)
schedule deployments using FusionInventory task manager

Powerfull task management

FusionInventory for GLPI include a task scheduler to plan actions :

wake up a computer monday at 2 a.m.
share network discovery and remote network inventory between available agents
schedule a software deployment in one hour