This article is part of the Inspirations series

This page contains links to articles describing patterns that have been created outside of the core Foundation product, but show what the user can do with the flexible pattern language. The maturity of these patterns may range from simple code snippets showing nascent ideas, though proof-of-concepts to more mature patterns that may have undergone testing and deployment at a customer site.

However, the user should bear in mind that no guarantees are made for them: test that they perform as you expect before using in your own environment.

Patterns

• BIOS/Firmware data - detect a host's BIOS or Firmware data

Windows Tasks

• [Windows Services] - detect Windows service information as SoftwareInstances
• [File Versions] - using WMI to extract version information from a file's version resource
• [Get Server Timezone and Bios firmware] - Retrieves server timezone and Bios Firmware version
• [Get File System Drive Information] - Retrieves File System Drives

Unix Tasks

• [Extended AIX Discovery] - Extra AIX information, including tech and service pack fix levels, bios firmware version and putting LPAR attributes onto the host
• [Get Server Timezone] - Retrieves server timezone and puts this on the Host
• [File System MountPoints] - Retrieves the File Systems and creates a node for each mount point
• Linux Software RAID - detect software RAID devices on Linux
• Access to Sudo commands - Report back on which commands we can or cannot run through Sudo

Network Tasks

• [Linux Bonded Interface] - detect bonded network interfaces on Linux
• [NIC Vendor] - derive the vendor of a NIC via its MAC Address, a useful example of mapping using Tables
• [Host Extended DNS Discovery] - Add additional DNS attributes to allow DNS location dependency reporting
• [Windows Physical NIC Adapters] - Counting the physical network adapters in Windows Host, a useful example of WMI and Tables
• [Root Login] - Detect which Unix hosts allow direct root login

Application Tasks

• [Oracle Applications] - Quick and easy pattern to model basic Oracle applications
• [Microsoft IIS Applications] - Similar in approach to the Oracle applications pattern but this time for IIS webapps.