FusionInventory acts like a gateway and collect information sent by the agents. It will create or update the information in GLPI it minimal effort from the administrator.
For now, these class of devices are supported:
- Computers
- Network devices
- Printers
- Virtual machines
FusionInventory supports different virtualization mechanisms.
- VMware vCenter/ESX/ESXi
- Virtualbox
- Libvirt
- Xen
- OpenVZ/Virtuozzo
- Parallels
- LXC
- FreeBSD Jails
- HPVM
- Vserver
You can use FusionInventory to install, update or remove software. You can also push administration scripts.
The solution can be run on any kind of operating system, espcially:
- Windows
- MacOSX
- Linux
FusionInventory is designed to take care of the network bandwidth.
The agent can send Wake on Lan order on its local network. By using the GLPI plugin, you can planify when computers have to be awaken and from which agent.
The FusionInventory Agent is a generic multi-platform agent. It can perform a large array of management tasks, such as local inventory, software deployment or network discovery. It can be used either standalone, or in combination with a compatible server (OCS, GLPI, OTRS, Uranos, ...) acting as a centralized control point.
Two of these tasks are included in agent source distribution, local inventory and wake on lan. Other tasks are distributed separatly, excepted for binary distributions where they are bundled together.
GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface.
You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers, ...). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job tracking system with mail-notification and methods to build a database with information about your network-topology.
GLPI also comes with an integrated Request Tracking solution.
GLPI stands for "Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique", which means in french “Free IT Asset Management Software”.
FusionInventory for GLPI is a plugin for GLPI.