FusionInventory - retrospective & roadmap

January 12, 2023
David Durieux: david@durieux.family

Who am I?

David Durieux

• live in France (countryside near Lyon)
• admin & developer since 1999, self-taught
• leader of FusionSuite project
• leader of FusionInventory project
• Innovation and expertise manager at DCS EASYWARE company

Reminder: what is FusionInventory?

FusionInventory is a free software for:

• software and hardware inventory on computers, servers
• discovery all devices connected to your network
• SNMP devices inventory (switch, router, firewall, printers)
• ESX inventory (VMWare)
• software deployment

Architecture

FusionInventory is made up of 2 parts:

• agent
• server

Agent

The agent, is installed on computers for local inventory.
It can be used for other tasks:

• network discovery
• network inventory (SNMP / ESX)
• software deployment

Server

You can have multiple servers, the main servers are:

• Plugin FusionInventory for GLPI
• Plugin FusionInventory for GSIT
• FusionSuite

Retrospective 2022

General

The project has near 13 years.

Useful links

Several means of communication have been set up:

• the website
• the Discord server
• the github
• the youtube

Fork

The agent and server (plugin FusionInventory for GLPI) has been forked by GLPI/Teclib.
The developpers from this entity has been removed from FusionInventory project.

Specifications for version 3.0.0

The specifications have been well started in 2022.
The modifications started to be implemented.

Roadmap 2023

New data structure

The data structure of inventory come from the OCS Inventory when the agent have been forked when we created FusionInventory in 2010.

I want to update this structure with containers.

For example, the workstation is a container, inside have a computer (container too), a screen...

New exchange protocol: REST API

Now, we have multiple protocols: XML over HTTP, JSON over HTTP... depend on module used.

The goal is to have all in REST API (JSON over HTTP) like FusionInventory backend and it's the standard now for this kind of usage.

Modification deployment module

The deployment module need a cleanup, and parts to be modified.
I want use dependencies of packages.

Modules independent

The modules are launch when the global launch executed. It come with problems run a module not want now, or need run all modules too often.
Each modules will be independent and have frequency independent.

Example: inventory 1 par day, deploy each 10 minutes.

Join us

If you (user or company) want to join us to contribute to FusionInventory project, contact us!

• Discord server
• David Durieux: david@durieux.family

Thanks

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