NAME¶
Ocsinventory::Agent::XML::Inventory - the XML abstraction layer
DESCRIPTION¶
OCS Inventory uses XML for the data transmition. The module is the abstraction
layer. It's mostly used in the backend module where it called $inventory in
general.
- new()
- The usual constructor.
- initialise()
- Runs the backend modules to initilise the data.
- getContent()
- Return the inventory as a XML string.
- printXML()
- Only for debugging purpose. Print the inventory on
STDOUT.
- writeXML()
- Save the generated inventory as an XML file. The 'local'
key of the config is used to know where the file as to be saved.
- processChecksum()
- Compute the <CHECKSUM/> field. This information is
used by the server to know which parts of the XML have changed since the
last inventory.
The is done thank to the last_file file. It has MD5 prints of the previous
inventory.
- saveLastState()
- At the end of the process IF the inventory was saved
correctly, the last_state is saved.
- addSection()
- A generic way to save a section in the inventory. Please
avoid this solution.
- feedSection()
- Add information in inventory.