[Fusioninventory-user] Who (fusioninventory or GLPI) decides to which host an inventory entry belongs (and how)?

[Frank Thommen]

Hi Guillaume,

thanks.  Your answer was as usually very helpful.  I found the link 
rules in the GLPI UI (even though I don't really understand them yet...) 
and I can confirm, that when injecting data from the same host with a 
changed hostname, the correct object in GLPI is updated.

We prefer to run fusininventory with the injector from a cronjob rather 
than having an agent running on the system or on the GLPI Server.

Cheers
frank

On 09/28/2018 03:31 PM, Guillaume Bougard wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> fusioninventory-inventory script will each time generate a new agent machineid and won't permet plugin to link the new inventory to the same agent.
>
> By the way, the plugin should be able to link the inventory to the right computer thanks to its UUID. You can change here the rule from the plugin "Equipment import and link rules" menu (see plugin administration panel).
> If the plugin can link the new inventory to an existing computer, this will be an update.
>
> Then, you should probably better start the fusioninventory-agent script as in that way, the same mahcineid will be used (stored in var/FusionInventory-Agent.dump file). Generally, we only need fusioninventory-injector while transferring inventory from a computer without GLPI direct access.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Guillaume Bougard
> Ingénieur R&D
> gbougard at teclib.com
>
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> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Frank Thommen" <f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de>
> À: "FusionInventory User discussion" <fusioninventory-user at alioth-lists.debian.net>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 28 Septembre 2018 14:47:30
> Objet: [Fusioninventory-user] Who (fusioninventory or GLPI) decides to which host an inventory entry belongs (and how)?
>
> Hi,
>
> when inventorizing computers with `fusioninventory-inventory |
> fusioninventory-injector --stdin <URL>` who decides, if an entry is a
> new computer or an update for an old one?  GLPI or the fusioninventory
> plugin?  And how?  I noticed, that when I change the hostname and
> re-inventorize, then a new entry is created in GLPI.  This behaviour is
> useless for us (hosts (=pieces of metal) often change their name) and we
> would need to change it.  But GLPI has so many knobs to turn, that I am
> somehow lost ;-).
>
> Any hint is appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> frank
>
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