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 license. See COPYING for details. Prerequisites ------------- To compile the syscollector package from source you need: * A build environment: autotools, libtool, C compiler, ... * A POSIX + Single UNIX Specification compatible C library. * asciidoc, xsltproc: The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages. Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------ To configure, build and install syscollector 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= to `make install', will be prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating packages for syscollector. Author ------ Sebastian "tokkee" Harl