HW/SW Inventory - add functionality?

[Zebster (Anders Blomgren)]

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to populate the checkmk inventory with extra information from a custom script?

Regards,
Anders Blomgren

[r.sander (Robert Sander)]

Yes it is possible.

Unfortunately it is not documented well as of now, @mschlenker

[Zebster (Anders Blomgren)]

Ah, great. Do I need to edit mk_inventory.vbs script or can I add an extra script?

Do you have any example?

Regards,
Anders

[Yggy]

At the time I edited the vbs file. I only needed to replace an existing value, not add extra rows with info to it. I also changed Const CMK_VERSION so I could see if my changed vbs was used or not.

Hosts: Inventory: Operating System: version details missing

2.1.0p5 raw; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS; Windows 10 22H2 end points I have mk_inventory.vbs for Check_MK HW/SW Inventory running on Windows end points for more than a year. I made a custom view of Windows hosts, with the intention to keep track of recent updates are installed or not. Hosts: Inventory: Operating System ➤ Kernel Version gives 10.0.19045, which is nice, but doesn’t change so often. The essential info, namely the Windows Update Build Revision (UBR), I have it on PDQ Inventory but I want to…

But I assume that you can add the extra rows in an existing section call block, as long as the output has the same output format column wise for that specific section.

[Zebster (Anders Blomgren)]

We are planning to add quite a lot of information to the inventory and different depending of server type. Anyone done anything similar?

[mschlenker (Mattias Schlenker)]

@r.sander

Unfortunately it is not documented well as of now…

I am aware of this. To be transparent: It makes no sense to document the pre 2.3.0 behavior and API anymore since this will be soon deprecated. The good news: We plan to document all new APIs starting with updating existing articles between April and September. This will also include a comprehensive documentation of extending the inventory with self-made plugins.