Talk:OCS Inventory Tools

We need to confirm that ipdiscover works when the smeserver is the forced client.

I Tried the following:

ipdiscover eth0 10

	Note:
	Usage : ipdiscover [iface name] [latency in ms]

Here's what I got on my server:

<IPDISCOVER>
<H>192.168.0.100<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00100.mydomain.com</N></H>
<H>192.168.0.253<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00253.mydomain.com</N></H>
<H>192.168.0.254<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00254.mydomain.com</N></H>
</IPDISCOVER>

Sounds like it's working for me... But IpDiscover discovers nothing when launched by SME OCS' Agent. There must be a problem here!

Windows Agent don't have this problem...

Cool34000

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Draft steps for deployment, it works !!

SSL Certificates
Installed a SSL certificate eg. http://wiki.contribs.org/Custom_CA_Certificate

below fixes the ssl errors as per http://alufis35.uv.es/OCS-Inventory-Package-Deployment.html
this is common, it could be automated, but should we be trusted, probably not ?

wget http://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt
cp root.crt /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/cacert.pem
add fragment to httpd.conf
{
   #/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/35SSL10SSLCACertificateFile
   if (-f '/home/e-smith/ssl.crt/cacert.pem')
   { $OUT = "SSLCACertificateFile /home/e-smith/ssl.crt/cacert.pem"; }
} 

copy cacert.pem to the client ocs folder

deploying => Activate => activate package
complains that the directory and info files don't exist,
Just ignore the activate error, the files are visible from clients
 
deployed a file, optional, run a client update, it should show as notified in ocs

in => Package activation
when you delete a package, ocs complains, but it deletes the files anyway, document later

links
http://alufis35.uv.es/OCS-Deployment-Tips-and-tricks.html

stephen

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Thank you so much for your help Stefen.

I'm so happy that deployment works!!! That's really great news!

A solution was also given on the forum: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37359.msg178135#msg178135

It looks easier (no need of CACert). What do you think of the other solution?

Cool34

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copying the existing .crt didn't work for me, try both ways and find out what works for you, using the existing cert would be simpler

setting up a CA Certificate doesn't take long and is 'a good idea'

stephen

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