README

                Information about the LSI application

LSI		A collection of scripts that allow 
                for the gathering and reporting of Linux
		systems information.

LSI(Linux Systems Information) includes scripts for reporting
important aspects of managed Linux systems. This includes
information that is useful for asset management as well as 
systems administration. 


CONTENTS
  
   README		This file.

   INSTALL		Installation instructions. Including system 
                        requirements and dependencies.

   LICENSE		GPLv3 License.

   TODO			Works in progress or not in progress.

   install.sh		Main installer script

   src/bin  		Various scripts used to gather and/or store information 
   src/etc		Configuration files
   src/share/docs	Extra documentation for LSI


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating systems that should work: Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS


DEPENDENCIES

Client -
  Standard utilities such as xinetd, perl, awk ,sed, grep, libxml2 (xmllint), libxslt (xsltproc) etc. (so basically a working system).

Server -
  Same as the client. The only thing different is the Server will pull information from the clients and store tthe results in central location for processing.


KNOWN ISSUES

-hostid may not be properly populated as this was originally intended for Dell
-hardware results maybe be inacurrate, read man dmidecode for more information


FEATURES

-can export data as either XML or CSV
-can export either all systems information or the categories you choose; IE bios information, cpu information
-provides an MySQL schema and script for importing XML data from directories into MySQL
-by default it utilizes stunnel to encrypt data pulls from the lsi collector