nethserver-inventory

This package collects and send server informations to a remote server.

The inventory uses the facter software, from puppet (https://docs.puppet.com/facter/). Facter collects a standard set of informations (like CPU model, runing kernel, etc.) but the system also gather some custom facts.

Custom facts

Scripts for custom facts are inside /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/2.1.0/facter/ directory. Each package can register a new custom fact, but this packages always provides the following:

rpms: list of installed RPMs
raid: RAID configuration
templates_custom: list of configured template custom wihout content
arp_macs: number of network devices
users: list of configured users
backup: info about backup status
esmithdb: all esmith databases, password values are replaced with ***

Sending the inventory

The inventory will be sent every day using cron. If you want to manually send the inventory, use the following command:

/etc/cron.daily/nethserver-inventory

Configuration

The configuration is stored inside the configuration database under the subscription key.

Properties:

InventoryUrl: API endpoint where the data are sent

Make sure that SystemId property under subscription key is already set. If the Secret property is set, it will be used as authorization token when sending the inventory.

NethServer subscrptions

URL: https://my.nethserver.com/api/machine/inventories

To configure execute:

config setprop subscription InventoryUrl https://my.nethserver.com/api/machine/inventories/store
signal-event nethserver-inventory-update

Nethesis partner program

URL: https://my.nethesis.it/isa/inventory/store