# FusionInventory Agent

## Summary

The FusionInventory agent is a generic management agent. It can perform a
certain number of tasks, according to its own execution plan, or on behalf of a
GLPI server with fusioninventory plugin, acting as a control point.

## Description

TODO.

## Dependencies

Minimum perl version: 5.8

Additional mandatory perl modules:

* File::Which
* LWP
* Net::IP
* Text::Template
* UNIVERSAL::require
* XML::TreePP

Additional optional perl modules:

* Compress::Zlib, for message compression
* HTTP::Daemon, for web interface
* IO::Socket::SSL, for HTTPS support with certificate validation
* Net::CUPS (v0.60 minimum), for printers detection 
* Parse::EDID, for screen identification
* Proc::Daemon, for daemon mode (Unix only)
* Win32::Daemon, for Win32 service mode (Windows only)
* Proc::PID::File, for daemon mode (Unix only)

Additional optional programs:

* dmidecode, for hardware inventory
* lspci, for hardware inventory

## Contacts

Project websites:

* main site: <http://www.fusioninventory.org>
* forge: <http://forge.fusioninventory.org>

Project mailing lists:

* <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-user>
* <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel>

Project IRC channel:

* #FusionInventory on FreeNode IRC Network

Please report any issues on project forge bugtracker.

## Authors 

* Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri@rulezlan.org>
* Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch@gmail.com>

Copyright 2006-2010 OCS Inventory contributors
Copyright 2010-2012 FusionInventory Team
Copyright 2011 TECLIB' ( http://www.teclib.com )

## License

This software is licensed under the terms of GPLv2+, see LICENSE file for
details.

## Additional pieces of software

The fusioninventory-injector script:

* author: Pascal Danek
* copyright: 2005 Pascal Danek

FusionInventory::Agent::Task::Inventory::Input::Virtualization::Vmsystem
contains code from imvirt:

* url: <http://micky.ibh.net/~liske/imvirt.html>
* author: Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
* copyright: 2008 IBH IT-Service GmbH <http://www.ibh.de/>
* License: GPLv2+
