[Fusioninventory-devel] FusionAgent extension

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 26/11/2013 15:30, Joachim.Setzer at t-systems.com a écrit :
> Hi All,
> we need to check differnet tings an a client where the agent is running:
> for example the uptime and load of the client
> à How can we extend the agent to provide such informations ?
Hello Joachim.

Your need seems just to extend the amount of information reported by an 
inventory task. You have basically two options:
1) use 'additional-content' configuration directive to point to another 
XML file whose content will be dynamically merged to the result produced 
by the agent
2) modify the agent to add the required informations, by adding 
additional perl code under F::A::Task::Inventory namespace. That's a bit 
more invasive (you need to deploy the modified agent), but you can 
submit your modifications for inclusion in a future version.

Caution, in both case, you'll just change what is reported by the agent, 
not the way your server (whatever it is) handles it, meaning it will be 
probably just ignored.

Also, uptime is already reported indirectly through 
OPERATINGSYSTEM/BOOT_TIME element.

-- 
Guillaume