1 syscollector -- a system management / inventory collection service
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4 “System Collector” (syscollector) is a multi-backend system management and
5 inventory collection service. It may be used to collect information from
6 various backends (inventory services, monitoring services, etc.) and
7 provides a unique interface to access the information independent of the
8 active backends. This is done by mapping the backend objects to generic
9 objects and correlating the attributes to create a single hierarchy of your
10 infrastructure.
12 This is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
13 license. See COPYING for details.
15 Prerequisites
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18 To compile the syscollector package from source you need:
20 * A build environment: autotools, libtool, C compiler, ...
22 * A POSIX + Single UNIX Specification compatible C library.
24 * asciidoc, xsltproc:
25 The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages.
27 Configuring / Compiling / Installing
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30 To configure, build and install syscollector with the default settings, run
31 `./configure && make && make install'. For detailed, generic instructions
32 see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description,
33 run `./configure --help'.
35 By default, syscollector will be installed into `/opt/syscollector'. You can
36 adjust this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see
37 INSTALL for details. If you pass DESTDIR=<path> to `make install', <path>
38 will be prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when
39 creating packages for syscollector.
41 Author
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44 Sebastian "tokkee" Harl <sh@tokkee.org>