glpi agent and fusion agent

[kintaro1981]

Hello,

I noticed that GLPI v10 has its own agent called "GLPI Agent"; it is a fork of the fusioninventory-agent.

My question is: are you collaborating developing this agents or are they going to split apart more and more in the future?

p.s. I sent this in the wrong repo, I should had post it in the fusioninventory-agent's one. 😞

[ddurieux]

Hello,

I have transfered in the right repository ;)

agent split, the new version of FusionInventory agent 3.0 will use new URLs and data format (communication protocol, data structure and information inside it).

[tsdogs]

I also would like to know what's the difference between the 2. Why should FusionInventory agent (and plugin) be preferred over GLPI agent?

[g-bougard]

As glpi-agent is a fusioninventory-agent fork and nothing changed in fusioninventory-agent since near 2 years, just check the glpi-agent Changes file which includes the fusioninventory-agent changes until 2.6. The first 400 lines defines the difference between them (less the 70 first which are only related to current nightly builds but will be release in glpi-agent 1.5 in few weeks).

[tsdogs]

So if I understand it correctly GLPI (agent/inventory) will be the future and FusionInventory functionality has been "integrated" into GLPI

[ddurieux]

Hi @tsdogs, the FusionInventory agent is currently under code modifications for the next major version, the 3.0. With this version, will have many modifications:

• update protocol to have JSON over HTTP (to use a server REST API) for every all requests
• update the structure of data for inventory to be managed as containers and the format will be the same for local inventory, network discovery and network inventory
• the dependencies for the deployment packages feature
• some other improvements

For the server part, we will continue to support GLPI with the usage of plugin FusionInventory. The agent will be fully compatible with FusionSuite software because it's a Free Software project like FusionInventory and not an Open Source Software project.

[g-bougard]

@ddurieux can you clarify one important point for the community ? You are promising a big change but nothing's happening in this repo. Is the code elsewhere ? And so where ? If the code is private, how the community can evaluate this project is still an opensource project ?

[ddurieux]

I have a POC for the REST API but specifications not yet finished. The specifications for the data structure is currently writting and will be available in few weeks

[sebma]

Is FusionInventory Agent 2.6 compatible with the glpiinventory plugin v1.1 on GLPI v10 server ?

[g-bougard]

Is FusionInventory Agent 2.6 compatible with the glpiinventory plugin v1.1 on GLPI v10 server ?

Yes, FIA 2.6 is supported by GLPI 10 & GlpiInventory plugin.