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- syscollector -- a system management / inventory collection service
- ====================================================================
-
- “System Collector” (syscollector) is a multi-backend system management and
- inventory collection service. It may be used to collect information from
- various backends (inventory services, monitoring services, etc.) and
- provides a unique interface to access the information independent of the
- active backends. This is done by mapping the backend objects to generic
- objects and correlating the attributes to create a single hierarchy of your
- infrastructure.
-
- This is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
+ SysDB -- a system management and inventory collection service
+ ===============================================================
+
+ “System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory
+ collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information
+ about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring
+ services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information
+ independent of the active backends. This is done by storing and mapping the
+ backend objects to generic objects and correlating the attributes to create
+ a single hierarchical view of your infrastructure.
+
+ SysDB is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
license. See COPYING for details.
Prerequisites
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- To compile the syscollector package from source you need:
+ To compile the SysDB package from source you need:
* A build environment: autotools, libtool, C compiler, ...
+ * When building from Git, you also need the flex lexical analyzer generator
+ and bison parser generator (other lex and yacc compatible tools might work
+ as well if you are lucky).
+
* A POSIX + Single UNIX Specification compatible C library.
- * asciidoc, xsltproc:
+ * asciidoc, xsltproc, xmlto:
The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages.
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
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- To configure, build and install syscollector with the default settings, run
+ To configure, build and install SysDB with the default settings, run
`./configure && make && make install'. For detailed, generic instructions
see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description,
run `./configure --help'.
- By default, syscollector will be installed into `/opt/syscollector'. You can
- adjust this setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see
- INSTALL for details. If you pass DESTDIR=<path> to `make install', <path>
- will be prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when
- creating packages for syscollector.
+ By default, SysDB will be installed into `/opt/sysdb'. You can adjust this
+ setting by specifying the `--prefix' configure option - see INSTALL for
+ details. If you pass DESTDIR=<path> to `make install', <path> will be
+ prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating
+ packages for SysDB.
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