Features

FusionInventory is used to inventory your IT assets.

Computers inventory

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

Inventory is performed by an a agent, installed on all computers.

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
Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC)

Screenshots of inventories displayed in GLPI are available here.

Network discovery

FusionInventory can scan and discover all devices connected to the network by using the following protocols:

NMAP
NetBIOS
SNMP

During this step, it identifies:

Network information
Windows domain information
SNMP device name (sysdesc)

Remote devices inventory using SNMP

FusionInventory can inventory devices by using the SNMP protocol:

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

For a switch, it retrieves :

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

Screenshots in GLPI are available here.

For the printer, it can inventory:

Get printer information

Serial number
Manufacturer
Model
Firmware
Memory
Mac address
etc

Additional important information

Get cartridges ink level
Page counter

Screenshots are available here.

Wake up computers with Wake On Lan

FusionInventory is able to wake a computer by another computer : the server issues a wake on lan order and sends it to a an agent running on the network. This agent will send a magic packet to the target computer.

Inventory remote vCenter/ESX/ESXi

FusionInventory can remotly inventory VMware ESX/ESXi/vCenter using VMware SOAP API. The agent is able to retreive :

Host hardware inventory
The list of hosted virtual machines

GLPI as user interface

FusionInventory for GLPI doesn’t provides it’s own interface, but tightly integrates in GLPI. By doing so, it relies on GLPI’s framework for authentication, authorizations and display.

There’s no need to learn how to use another interface.

Powerfull task management

FusionInventory for GLPI provides a powerfull task scheduler to perform complex set of commands. For example, you can plan to wake computers at 2 a.m, or perform a network discovery every 30 minutes. The built-in scheduler can also share scan order on a set of available agents.