[Fusioninventory-devel] about some limits of software inventory

[Stéphane Urbanovski]

Le 28/10/2010 10:27, Fabrice Flore-Thebault a écrit :
Hi

[...]
> 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.

This is an OS packaging problem. How *BSD handle a security update on a 
"base" component (like pf for example) ? does the wall distribution have 
to be updated ?

> 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.

+1
We already do that kind of inventory (using the software script hooks). 
We add a prefix (JAVAAPPS@ ) on the application name and add some other 
infos as key/value in the comment. A cleaner way to do that would be 
nice :-)

The problem is nearly the same for databases :
- the software : version, patch ...
- the instance : a db process listening on a port and handling connections
- the database


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Stéphane Urbanovski