Fusion Inventory User Guide: The Big Picture.

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 Android phone

 

Virtual machines inventory.

FusionInventory supports different virtualization mechanisms.

• VMware vCenter/ESX/ESXi
• Virtualbox
• Libvirt
• Xen
• OpenVZ/Virtuozzo
• Parallels
• LXC
• FreeBSD Jails
• HPVM
• Vserver

http://fusioninventory.org

Original graph source:

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    subgraph cluster_4 {

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        "Local Inventory" -> "Agent" -> "FusionInventory for GLPI";
        "ESX Inventory" -> "Agent";
        "Network Inventory" -> "Agent";
        "Agent" -> "Deploy";
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    }

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    node [style=filled,color=white];
    "dmidecode" -> "Local Inventory";
    "dpkg" -> "Local Inventory";
    "registry" -> "Local Inventory";
    "rpm" -> "Local Inventory";
    "WMI" -> "Local Inventory";
    "dmidecode" -> "Local Inventory";
    "PCI info" -> "Local Inventory";
    "USB info" -> "Local Inventory";
    "virtual machines" -> "Local Inventory";
    "more" -> "Local Inventory";
    "Deploy" -> "set some configuration";
    "Deploy" -> "add software";
    label = "Computer(s)";
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    "vCenter1" -> "ESX Inventory";
    "esx4" -> "ESX Inventory";

    "esx1" -> "vCenter1";
    "esx2" -> "vCenter1";
    "esx3" -> "vCenter1";
    "vm1" -> "esx1";
    "vm2" -> "esx2";
    "vm3" -> "esx2";
    "vm4" -> "esx3";
    "vm5" -> "esx3";
    "vm6" -> "esx4";
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    "printer 1" -> "Network Inventory";
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    "switch 1" -> "Network Inventory";
    "unknown device" -> "Network Inventory";
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}

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