Quoting Walid Nouh (2013-12-02 10:17:36) > Hello FusionInventory developers, Hello Walid,
> I've been asked for gathering the result of the HostID on Linux. > For the moment this information is gathered on Solaris, and put in the > OS Comment, and on Linux. > By discussing this point with David and Gonéri, it seems that the hostid > is not a very useful information, as it may not be unique and thus cannot > be used as a criterias for unicity rules. hostid returns value from libc gethostid() function. The value is more or less the IP address of the machine: http://linux.die.net/man/2/gethostid This is a bit different on Solaris. The hostid is stored in the hardware. > I was wondering either this information needs to be dropped from the > Solaris code or generalized on all unices. What do you think about it ? In this case, you can use the IP address as unicity criteria. > Would it be interested to have this information in a specific key of the > XML inventory so it could be displayed in FI4GLPI ? I don't think it make sense to collect such kind of information. That's more the purpose of the Collect task: gethering specific information in demande. Best regards, -- Gonéri _______________________________________________ Fusioninventory-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
