OCS Inventory Tools

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Credits

This work is based on Daniel's howto from smefirewall-services.com

It's also based on DLAoctet's old howto

Thanks to both of you!

Maintainer

Sylvain Gomez
mailto:sylvaingomez@free.fr

OCS Inventory Next Generation 1.01 for SME 7.x

OCS Inventory NG Description

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network. Information about Hardware and Operating System are collected. Used with a IT and Asset Management Software such as open source tool GLPI, you will have a powerfull inventory and asset management software with automatic updates of computer configuration, license management, help desk and more.

For more information see http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org//.

Download

You can download this package here. You will also need a few dependencies. If you would like to save it directly on your SME Server, you should give this command at a linux-prompt

wget http://sme.firewall-services.com/downloads/ocs/rpms/perl-deps-ocs.tar.gz
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/sgomez/contribs/inventory/ocsreports/smeserver-ocs_inventory_ng-1.01-4.noarch.rpm

Installation and Uninstall

For installation, you first need to install dependencies: just hit the following commands

yum install mod_perl
tar xvzf ./perl-deps-ocs.tar.gz
yum localinstall ./perl-deps-ocs/*.rpm

Then you can install OCS with the following command

yum localinstall *.rpm

For uninstall just hit the following command

yum remove smeserver-ocs_inventory_ng

You should also uninstall all dependencies...

You can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot.

Use

OCS Reports' web interface can be reached at http://your-server/ocs

Login : admin

Password: admin Template:DrawBoxWarning The client side is available on all platforms. Download the latest client version according to your OS. After installing the Agent, you should launch it manually to upload your first inventory (as it's updated once per day by default)

Under Windows, this can be done by typing the following in the 'execute box':

"C:\Program Files\OCS Inventory Agent\OCSInventory.exe" /server:yourdomain.com /np /debug /tag:your_tag

Wait a few seconds and go to http://your-server/ocs, you should see your first inventory!

Inventories can be done from WAN but the web interface is only available from inside your network for security reasons.

GLPI 0.68.3 for SME 7.x

GLPI Description

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration- Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers...). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with mail-notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network-topology.

For more information see http://www.glpi-project.org/.

Download

You can download this package here. If you would like to save it directly on your SME Server, you should give this command at a linux-prompt

wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/sgomez/contribs/inventory/glpi/smeserver-glpi-0.68.3-3.noarch.rpm

Installation and Uninstall

For installation just hit the following command

yum localinstall *.rpm

For uninstall just hit the following command

yum remove smeserver-glpi

You can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot.

GLPI will not install if OCS rpm is not installed for dependency reasons. You can install GLPI without OCS. Just skip OCS install (and its dependencies) and hit the following command:

rpm -Uvh smeserver-glpi-0.68.3-3.noarch.rpm --nodeps

Use

GLPI's web interface can be reached at http://your-server/glpi

Login : glpi

Password: glpi Template:DrawBoxWarning GLPI's web interface is only available from inside your network for security reasons.

Special commands

To view OCS and GLPI's passwords, you can type the following at a Linux prompt:

config show ocs
config show glpi

To change MySQL passwords, you can type the following at a Linux prompt:

config setprop ocs DbPassword my_new_password
config setprop glpi DbPassword "my new password"

Then you should apply modifications by typing the following at a Linux prompt:

signal-event ocs-update
signal-event glpi-update

You could also apply DbPassword modifications by typing the following at a Linux prompt (but why would you?)

signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

Please remember that GLPI has OCS' DbPassword written in its MySQL database, so if you change OCS' DbPassword you will need to update GLPI with the appropriate signal-event command!

Additional information


Sylvain Gomez (Cool34000)