[Fusioninventory-devel] about some limits of software inventory

[David DURIEUX]

Le Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:27:10 +0200
"Fabrice Flore-Thebault" <themroc at centsix.org> 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
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