Collect Data

Information

The GLPI Inventory plugin is available in the menu Administration > GLPI Inventory If it is not installed, please go to the marketplace, and install the GLPI Inventory plugin

Declaration of a data to be queried

Information

In the following example, we are going to check that the user has the thunderbird icon on his desktop (which in this case is a portable application).

Go to the administration > GLPI Inventory > tasks > computer information

Then create a new item ajouter :

The next window will allow you to enter the following information:

• A name

• A comment

• A type

  • Registry

  • WMI

  • Search for a file

• Active or not

• Visible in a sub-entity or not

Once you've clicked on Add, a Collect configuration tab appears in the left-hand menu, allowing you to configure data collection for one of the following three options, depending on the chosen type:

• WMI Windows

• File search

• Windows registry

Creating the task

Go to administration > GLPI Inventory > tasks > task management

Then create a new task with ajouter :

Create the task :

Then in Job configuration, add a job:

And configure the collect job in this task:

Once the job has been activated, prepared and taken over by the agent, you can see the result of the job execution here:

In the computer file, a new tab Collection information appears with the value found for the file: