[Fusioninventory-devel] about some limits of software inventory

[Fabrice Flore-Thebault]

On Thursday 28 October 2010 11:09:30 Walid Nouh wrote:
> Le 28/10/2010 10:57, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> > Le 28/10/2010 10:48, David DURIEUX a écrit :
> >> 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?
> > 
> > Because you don't have the version.
> > Because your park is not BSD only.
> > Because not everyone in the IT teams know what is the default set of
> > software installed on BSD, especially the security guy in charge of
> > determining if the just published 0day applies or not.
> > 
> > Fabrice point is correct, and ought a feature request on the tracker.
> 
> I agree too.
> 
> > For implementation, either we find a way to extract this list
> > dynamically, either we just need a static dictionnary of BSD version
> > mappings to list of softwares. I don't know how update would change
> > those versions or not, tough.
> 
> Let's open the ticket first and discuss that in it :)

http://forge.fusioninventory.org/issues/444
http://forge.fusioninventory.org/issues/445
 

Fabrice Flore-Thébault