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17. Inventory

Pandora FMS allows you to maintain an inventory of the devices monitored by Pandora FMS. It is possible to keep a list of the processor model, storage, running services, software installed on the computer, among other types of information.

The inventory is independent of the monitoring and can be obtained:


    • Remotely, through inventory Modules.
    • Locally, with the Pandora FMS EndPoint, through Agent plugins.

We can create our own Remote and Local inventory modules, but this quick guide does not go into detail on that.

Remote inventory

To assign this type of inventory to a remote agent, access the agent's edition and go to the Inventory tab.

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Fill in the fields with the following information:

  • The type of inventory we want to obtain, in this example the CPU model.
  • The Target IP, which in this case is 192.168.9.212.
  • The username and password of an existing user on the remote computer.

Optionally we can set a custom interval for the module execution and make use of Custom fields. Click on the Add button.

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The inventory module will have been applied and we will be able to perform actions such as deleting, editing, and forcing the execution of the module by clicking on their respective icons.

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We can see the data collected by the remote inventory module from Operation → Monitoring → Inventory.

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Local inventory

These inventory data are obtained through an EndPoint; the configuration is a bit different depending on whether it is an EndPoint for MS Windows® or Linux®.

MS Windows®

By default, there are inventory templates in the EndPoint configuration file pandora_agent.conf; to enable local inventory modules we uncomment the corresponding code block, in this case inventory from the available storage disks will be collected:

We define the execution interval via cron.

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Linux®

In Linux® inventory modules are also defined in the pandora_agent.conf file, but unlike MS Windows®, here it is established by uncommenting a single line, specifying the inventory we wish to obtain.

The line means that an inventory plugin will be used, the 1 means that inventory data will be collected every 1 day (we set it to 0 if we want it to be collected at each agent execution), and the objects from which we want to collect inventory data:

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