Talk:OCS Inventory Tools

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

I Tried the following:

ipdiscover eth0 10
Important.png 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


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


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


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