by Flavia Calonego | Nov 20, 2023 | News
GLPI Agent 1.6.1 has been released.
You’re encouraged to upgrade your GLPI agents or migrate if you’re still using FusionInventory agents.
You can download it on the GLPI Agent github project: https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/releases/tag/1.6.1
The 1.6.1 version specifically fixes SSL connections problems introduced with 1.6 version update for windows and MacOSX agents.
Here is a summary of the most important changes of the 1.6 version:
- The NetDiscovery and NetInventory tasks has been heavily reworked:
- the Parallel: ForlManager library is used as more stable on some environments,
- the NetDiscovery task now supports the discovery of remote computers and can run ESX and RemoteInventory tasks. This feature is currently only used by the ToolBox plugin.
- network device support has been enhanced again for different manufacturers like Cisco, Zebra, Aruba, Checkpoint, Citrix and Synology.
- The ToolBox plugin now offers a full tasks management support and permits to configure the discovery of remote computers using ESX and RemoteInventory tasks. In ToolBox, the NetDiscovery task including automatic inventory tasks run is named “netscan”:
- the inventory management page is now a list of local and remote inventory tasks,
- the credentials management page permits to create credentials for ESX, WinRM and SSH,
- a scheduling management page permits to define how to planify tasks runs,
- the “remotes” page becomes obsolete and will be removed in next version,
- a new option is available to add a navigation link toward the agent index page
- The RemoteInventory task includes a fix on SSH connections and supports the connection timeouts configured by ToolBox plugin,
- The ESX task has been enhanced to support the “netscan” task started from ToolBox plugin,
- The Proxy plugin has been fixed to support compressed requests and store JSON inventories with a better file name when local storage option is enabled,
- The Inventory task has also received many enhancements and fixes including:
- the antivirus inventory support on MacOSX (Defender) and Linux (Defender and BitDefender),
- the support for latest RustDesk versions for remote management discovery,
- an enhanced support for LXC and LXD containers based virtualization on linux.
- The MacOSX package has been udpated to use OpenSSL 3.1.4 and zlib 1.3,
- The linux perl installer includes fixes and supports installation on many new systems,
- The MSI windows installer includes few updates:
- the GLPI-AgentMonitor community tool has been updated to 1.2.3 version and now supports spanish and russian languages,
- a new installer option permits to just reconfigure the installed agent,
- the deletion of
log, var and etc folders has been fixed during uninstallation, - the VBS script has been fixed to check installation and especially avoid an installation failure is the MSI service is still in use.
As always, you can check the more detailed changelog at: https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/blob/1.6.1/Changes
by Daniela Buxo | Nov 10, 2023 | News
When we speak about IT asset management, ensuring the efficient tracking and management of your organization’s hardware and software assets is paramount. The GLPI Agent, an essential component of the GLPI Inventory ecosystem, is your ally in achieving this. In...
by Daniela Buxo | Jun 22, 2023 | News
GLPI Agent 1.5 has been released.
You’re encouraged to upgrade your GLPI agents or migrate if you’re still using FusionInventory agents.
You can download it on the GLPI Agent github project:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/releases/tag/1.5
This release includes a security fix related to CVE-2023-34254. You’ll only be concerned by this security alert if you’re using the remoteinventory task in the case of unix/linux remote inventory via ssh.
Here is a summary of the most important changes:
- libxml2 library is now required for all the features using XML,
- Windows keystore support has been extended to support more stores to ease GLPI SSL certificate validation,
- inventory task has a lot of enhancements. In particular, some WMI timeouts has been fixed on windows and a new
assetname-support option permits to choose to set asset name from short hostname or fqdn on unix/linux, - remoteinventory task includes several important fixes and has been enhanced to support remote inventory multi-threading thanks to the new
remote-workers option, - netdiscovery and netinventory tasks also had their bunch of fixes and many new devices are now supported,
- deploy, collect and ESX tasks also had few fixes and enhancements,
- the embedded HTTPD interface can now use a basic authentication plugin to secure even more access, like for the ToolBox interface,
- MacOSX packages have been updated to use OpenSSL 3.1.1 and zlib 1.2.13,
- the 3.5 version of dmidecode has been included in windows and MacOSX packages,
- the linux perl installer includes several fixes and now supports Oracle Linux 7 installation,
- MSI packaging now permits to install GLPI-AgentMonitor community tool which provides interesting features for users via a systray icon, check the following project for more details: https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agentmonitor
Speaking about the MSI packaging, we decided to not sign the packages and provided binaries as code-signing SSL certificate providers are failing to provide us the required certificate in a reasonable time. So you may experience some security alerts until the MSI packages reputation has been nicely established.
As always, you can check the more detailed changelog at:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/blob/1.5/Changes
by Daniela Buxo | Jul 4, 2022 | News
GLPI Agent 1.4 has been released.
You’re encouraged to upgrade your GLPI agents or migrate if you’re still using FusionInventory agents.
You can download it on the GLPI Agent github project:
This release includes few fixes and enhancements.
The most important one fixes a regression introduced in GLPI-Agent v1.3 which prevents windows or macosx agents to communicate with HTTPS GLPI server using a publicly signed SSL certificate.
For the other ones:
- new ssl-fingerprint option feature now also works on CentOS7,
- on SSL communication error, the agent will report a more explicit reason,
- we added support for linux systemd-nspawn container inventory,
- we added a new Acer monitor model support: B226WL,
- we fixed the support of non-standard port for ssh remote inventory,
- the MacOSX packages have been upgraded to use OpenSSL 3.0.4,
- the linux perl installer now support installation on Oracle Linux 8.
As always, you can check the more detailed changelog at:
by Daniela Buxo | Jun 20, 2022 | News
You’re encouraged to upgrade your GLPI agents or migrate if you’re still using FusionInventory agents.
You can download it on the GLPI Agent github project:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/releases/tag/1.3
This release includes some fixes and enhancements. Here are the most important ones:
- we implemented a feature request from the community to support SSL server certificate of the GLPI server deployment with operating system deployment feature:
- on windows, the glpi server certificate can be deployed through the enterprise keystore,
- on macosx, the glpi server certificate can be deployed in system keychain through a MDM.
- we added the support of the new ‘ssl-fingerprint’ option and it permits to trust a GLPI server certificate without the need of deploying a certificate:
- you can first enable one time the ‘no-ssl-check’ option on one agent to find the related ssl fingerprint reported in agent log,
- then you can set the discovered value for all your agents and disable ‘no-ssl-check’ on the first one.
- the windows MSI packaging is now using Perl 5.36.0 and includes some fixes and improvements:
- as it was wrongly creating firewall rules, this is fixed and wrong rules are removed,
- few libraries was missing if you wanted to use SNMPv3 authentication during network discovery or inventory,
- the installer was failing to create the windows task when you wanted to use windows task scheduling,
- few configurations was not possible during silent installation.
- the MacOSX packages has been upgraded to use Perl 5.36.0, OpenSSL 3.0.3 & zlib 1.2.12 and the installation on APFS filesystem has also been fixed.
- for linux packaging, we have also few big improvements:
- AppImage support for older linux like CentOS 7,
- AppImage uninstallation process has been improved,
- Snap packaging has been upgraded to use Perl 5.36.0,
- perl linux installer has been enhanced to support installation on openSUSE.
- For inventory task, we integrated:
- a patch from the community which can fix monitor inventory on linux,
- an Oracle database inventory support update,
- an update to avoid false positive antivirus alert during software inventory on windows,
- a fix on JSON format support to avoid wrongly encoded strings on macosx,
- a fix against a JSON validation error while monitor serial is an integer,
- a fix on generated partial inventory as the ‘partial’ property was missing,
- an update for additional-content option support while using JSON format.
- RemoteInventory task has been improved so remote ssh inventory of linux/unix platforms can fallback on ssh command calls when libssh2 is not available.
- Netdiscovery and NetInventory tasks now includes a module from the community which enhances DefensePro support.
As always, you can check the more detailed changelog at:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/blob/1.3/Changes
