[Fusioninventory-user] Again some clarification on import rules...

[David DURIEUX]

Le Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:12:52 +0200
Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it> a écrit:

>
>Ok, i've upgraded my main GLPI installation to 0.80.X, and so installed
>FusionInventory 0.80+1.5, and i'm starting to propagate agents, for now
>on a little subnets.
>
>Still i've found some trouble, expecially on import rules.
>
>
>Probably i'm missing something, or i've not understood how rules work,
>but seems to me there's no way to prevent the autocreation of monitor,
>printers and peripherals if they have no serial.

In configuration of plugin, you can say, import printer only have
serial number (same for peripheral and monitors). See it, it may works
better ;)

>After some test with the existing rules, i've added two more rule, as:
>
>+ Filter inexistent S/N
> Criteria
>  Assets to import : Serial Number	does not exist	Yes
> Actions
>  To be unaware of import	Assign	Yes
>
>+ Filter empty S/N
> Criteria
>  Assets to import : Serial Number	exists	Yes
>  Assets to import : Serial Number	is empty	Yes
> Actions
>  To be unaware of import	Assign	Yes
>
>immediately after the 'computer' rules; anyway monitor, printers and
>peripherals with empty/nonexistent S/N are imported.
>
>
>
>Another trouble came from the scarce flexibility of S/N match. OK, S/N
>match have to be precise, but i think that have to be taken into
>account the fact that some manufacturers print on S/N lable a code that
>have some chars more that the effective S/N: eg, samsung print on
>monitor a S/N that really is part number + s/n, some other add a char
>at the end.
>I think that another match have to be added, looking for (exact)
>substring.
>
>Also, is common when you add item to your inventory by hand, to do some
>mistakes: eg, mix 'O' and '0'.
>
>
>I think that in the next FI version a feature can be added: some sort
>of ''staging'', eg peripherals (monitor, printers, devices, ...) does
>not got imported automagically, but can be checked by hand (could be
>also with some hints, like ''the S/N sounds like of that device'') and
>then imported.
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>
>Thanks.
>