OCS Inventory Tools
Maintainer
Sylvain Gomez
mailto:sylvaingomez@free.fr
Special thanks to Rémi Collet who provided a working OCS Unified Agent Linux (and so much more!)
Inventory tools 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/.
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. You will also need a few dependencies. If you want to save it directly on your SME Server, you can give these commands at the prompt:
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/sgomez/contribs/inventory/dependencies/ocs_perl_deps.tar.gz wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/sgomez/contribs/inventory/smeserver-inventory-tools-1-1.i386.rpm
Installation
First, you need to install a few dependencies.
According to your SME version, you may also need to install mod_perl
yum install mod_perl
Other Perl dependencies have been packaged in one file for easy downloading. Simply uncompress the tarball and install RPMs using yum:
tar -xzf ./ocs_perl_deps.tar.gz yum install ./ocs_perl_deps/*.rpm
Finally, you can install OCS Reports and GLPI with the following command:
yum install smeserver-inventory-tools-1-1.i386.rpm
You can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot.
Update
Update from old RPMs (smeserver-ocs_inventory_ng and smeserver-glpi) is not possible.
You must uninstall both RPMs first!
If you want to keep your datas, you need to uninstall old versions with following commnands:
rpm -e smeserver-glpi --noscripts rpm -e smeserver-ocs_inventory_ng --noscripts
And then install the new version with
yum install smeserver-inventory-tools-1-1.i386.rpm
Uninstallation
To uninstall OCS Reports and GLPI, just hit the following command:
yum remove smeserver-inventory-tools
You can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot.
To completly remove OCS Reports and GLPI (installation files ; MySQL user+database ; OCS Agent) you will need the following command:
sh /root/OCS_GLPI-Full-Uninstall.sh
You should also uninstall all dependencies if you don't need them anymore...
Use
OCS Inventory NG
OCS Reports' web interface can be reached at http://your-server/ocs
Before to login, please choose your language (flags on the top right corner)
Login : admin
Password: admin
Inventories can be done from WAN but the web interface is only available from inside your network for security reasons by default. 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)
OCS Agent Linux for SME 7.x
The client-side of OCS will already be installed if you install smeserver-inventory-tools.
You should see an inventory of your SME Server in OCS web interface after the RPM install.
If you want to inventory other SME Servers (without installing the server-side and web interfaces), you only need following packages in the dependencies tarball:
- monitor-edid-1.11-1.el4.remi.i386.rpm
- ocsinventory-agent-0.0.6-1.el4.remi.noarch.rpm
- ocsinventory-ipdiscover-1.01-2.el4.remi.i386.rpm
Then edit /etc/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinv.conf and modify following lines:
OCSSERVER=yourdomain.com OCSTAG=your_tag
Then restart crond as this isn't done by these RPMs:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart
And finally launch the 1st inventory manually:
ocsinventory-agent -s yourdomain.com -t your_tag
OCS Agent for Windows
Under Windows, once the Agent is installed, you can make inventories 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 computer's inventory!
GLPI
GLPI's web interface can be reached at http://your-server/glpi
Login : glpi
Password: glpi
GLPI's web interface is only available from inside your network for security reasons by default.
Special commands
To view OCS and GLPI's configuration, you can type the following at the prompt:
config show ocs config show glpi
You can change a few parameters:
DB parameter | Options | Default | Explanation # HTTPS | on/off | on | enable/disable https mode # PublicAccess | local/global | local | Accessibility of web interface # InventoryAccess | local/global | global | Accessibility of OCS Server (to receive inventories) # InventoryDelay | >1 | 600 | Time to wait (sec) to avoid server overload (Agent cron)
After any change to OCS or GLPI configuration, you should apply modifications by typing the following at the prompt:
signal-event ocsglpi-update
It will expand and restart needed templates and services in one command!
Additional information
Initial howtos:
Sylvain Gomez (Cool34000)
