Le Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:27:10 +0200 "Fabrice Flore-Thebault" <[email protected]> a écrit:
>Hi folks, > >Some thoughts to to think about : > >I have this issue on OpenBSD : the software inventory gives the list >of software added by pkg_add, but not the software installed "as a >standard installation". For example : pf, dhcpd. > >The result is that the software inventory is incomplete. > >It raises some limits to the usage of the software inventory as a >global asset management tool : > >If i want to list all dhcp servers in GLPI, a reasonable approch >should be to search for "dhcpd" in the Software section. Fine for >Linux hosts : they will appear in the results, as every package is >managed by the same packaging system. Not fine for OpenBSD : as dhcpd, >and pf and other software are considered as the base system on OpenBSD >(and apparently on FreeBSD too), they are not listed. > >With an incomplete software inventory, the image of the infrastructure >provided by the agent remains incomplete. And for my example, this is >bad news to know that i can't see some of the core services ... No way >to monitor that the installed versions are accurate to the needs. > >My opinion is that the most software installed on a host should be >inventoried, and therefore we should find a way to list dhcpd and pf >and all software that is installed as a base application on OpenBSD. > >I don't know if there is a tool to do it. > >In a second time, I think that we should think about doing an >inventory of some applications that are not to be treated as >"software", bus as specific sorts of applications : like web >applications (apache vhosts, tomcat apps), databases. This >applications could be then linked to the accurate plugins in GLPI. > >The idea behind it is that, with such features, the agent could be a >tool to give a more deep image of an infrastucture during an audit. > >Cheers, > The problme is dhcp is in default in these systems, so why get this information if you know it is "installed" on all of theses computers / servers? David ++ _______________________________________________ Fusioninventory-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
