[Fusioninventory-devel] common metadata for describing infra components

[Nigel Kersten]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2:57 pm, Adam Jacob <a... at opscode.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Scott McCarty <scott.mcca... at gmail.com> 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.