Information about the package, fusioninventory-agent, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fusioninventory-agent package is designed for, FusionInventory agent.
Package Name:
fusioninventory-agent
Summary:
FusionInventory agent
Description:
FusionInventory Agent is an application designed to help a network or system administrator to keep track of the hardware and software configurations of computers that are installed on the network. This agent can send information about the computer to a OCS Inventory NG or GLPI server with the FusionInventory for GLPI plugin. You can add additional packages for optional tasks: * fusioninventory-agent-task-network Network Discovery and Inventory support * fusioninventory-agent-inventory Local inventory support for FusionInventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-deploy Software deployment support * fusioninventory-agent-task-esx vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-collect Custom information retrieval support * fusioninventory-agent-task-wakeonlan not included due to a licensing issue for perl-Net-Write Edit the /etc/sysconfig/fusioninventory-agent file for service configuration.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.3.21
Release:
4.el6
Size:
28 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the fusioninventory-agent package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fusioninventory-agent
This command will install fusioninventory-agent on the server.
yum remove fusioninventory-agent
This command will un-install fusioninventory-agent on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fusioninventory-agent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fusioninventory-agent
This command will un-install fusioninventory-agent on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fusioninventory-agent when using the -y flag.
yum update fusioninventory-agent
This command will update fusioninventory-agent to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fusioninventory-agent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fusioninventory-agent
This command will update fusioninventory-agent to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fusioninventory-agent when using the -y flag.
yum info fusioninventory-agent
This command will show you core information about the fusioninventory-agent package.
yum deplist fusioninventory-agent
This command will show you the dependencies for fusioninventory-agent. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update fusioninventory-agent
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fusioninventory-agent. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.