Configuring Inventory Processor

Settings Description

Inventory Processor is the executable module file responsible for populating the asset database. The standard executable file name is: moduleInventory-<version>.

Configuration File

To run Inventory Processor, a configuration file named config.yml must be present in the module folder. It contains the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Required
opensearch	List of OpenSearch cluster servers.	Yes
username	Username for connection.	Yes
password	Password for connection.	Yes
cert	CA certificate for authentication verification.	Yes
join_events_with_null_value	Skip empty keys during the aggregation stage.	No
include_assets	List of asset configurations requiring processing. If not specified, all configurations will be processed.	No

Example config.yml content:

opensearch: ['https://172.16.0.60:9200']
username: 'admin'
password: 'pass'
cert: 'root-ca.pem'
join_events_with_null_value: false
include_assets:
  - asset_name: 'Hosts'
    search_fields: ['hostname']

Launch Parameters

The Inventory Processor executable supports the following launch parameters:

• -v - display version
• -log - duplicate log output to console (optional)
• -with-index - fast search for partial similarity candidates (optional)
• -bulk-changes - send asset changes via bulk request (optional)

Example of version output

./moduleInventory-3.2.0 -v

Launch example

./moduleInventory-3.2.0 -log -with-index -bulk-changes

Launch example in the cron task

./moduleInventory-3.2.0 -with-index -bulk-changes

Example running without partial similarity search optimizations

./moduleInventory-3.2.0