On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Gonéri Le Bouder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2:57 pm, Adam Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Scott McCarty <[email protected]> >> wrote: > > Hi there, > > http://groups.google.com/group/devops-toolchain/browse_thread/thread/b1d63d46e37a76dc > > I'm Gonéri Le Bouder from the FusionInventory project and we are > interested in joining this topic. > Let me first introduce our project. > > FusionInventory is basically an agent which talks to different > servers: > - OCS Inventory (an inventory and deployment project, from which > FusionInventory comes from) > - the GLPI asset management software with a plugin called > FusionInventory for GLPI > - Uranos (formerly unattended-gui) > We are also in touch with the GOsa² and OPSI dev teams. > > Our agent collect computers hardware and software inventory but can > work also scan the network (nmap, SNMP, Netbios) and collect data of > printers and network devices (switchs & routers). > > FusionInventory Agent is based on OCS Inventory Agent for UNIX. I was > the author of the OCS unix agent and I decided to leave the project > during FOSDEM 2010. > > Today FusionInventory is an active project and we support most of the > operating system: > http://forge.fusioninventory.org/projects/fusioninventory-agent/wiki/Agent_supportedplateforms > > FusionInventory uses the XML format inherited from OCS Inventory. > Since the fork, we extend it a bit and wrote a documentation of the > format: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/FusionInventory-Agent/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/XML/Query/Inventory.pm > An MacOSX inventory example: > http://wawax.info/public-fusioninventory/gamma.lan-2010-10-21-12-30-00.ocs > > We are very interested in this topic because like you, we think > interoperability is very important. > Our XML inventory is simple and can easily be converted to a hash > structure. Of course, we are open to changes and improvement. > > We will be at FOSDEM 2011 too and would be glade to introduce our > work.
Gonéri, I'm putting together a combined configuration management devroom at FOSDEM where it looks like we may have input from Puppet, Chef, cfengine, OpenQRM and bcfg2. I think devoting some of that time to interoperability between inventory systems could be awesomely productive for us all. _______________________________________________ Fusioninventory-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
