Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from a few computers to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites. It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Solaris systems.

Pulse2 is designed in a very distributed way, involving several agents running together on the same machine or not. Each agent having its own configuration file, you can use the `pulse2-setup' to setup major configuration options automatically.

This tool is also responsible for provisioning databases and checking mmc-core LDAP setup.

To use it, simply type pulse2-setup and answer the questions.

The following options can be used: --help -h

Print a summary of all the options, and exit.

--debug -d

Print debug messages.

--batch -b

Do not ask any questions. Defaults values are taken from: - existing configuration files, if any - if not, working default values

--reset -R

Reset all Pulse2 configuration and start from default values.

--pkgdatadir=DIR

Look into DIR for sql snippets and so on. Default to /usr/share/pulse2

--confdir=DIR

Path to configuration directory. Default to /etc/mmc

• Win32: A complete win32 client agent pack can be built with the script /var/lib/pulse2/clients/win32/generate-agent-pack.sh

  It takes as only argument path to the ssh public key to include into the pack.

For some documentations, scripts, how-to and more, click here.