OCS Inventory Tools

Languages:

English

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

	Warning:
	For security-reasons, change admin's password after your first login!

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

	Warning:
	For security-reasons, change admin's password after your first login!

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

• OCS website
• GLPI website
• OCS download section
• OCS forums
• Rémi Collet's RPMs repo

Initial howtos:

• Howto
• Old version howto

Sylvain Gomez (Cool34000)

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