OCS Inventory

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OCS (Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation) is an assets management and deployment solution. Since 2001, OCS Inventory NG has been looking for making software and hardware more powerful. OCS Inventory NG asks its agents to know the software and hardware composition of every computer or server.

Assets management

Since 2001, OCS Inventory NG has been looking for making software and hardware more powerful. OCS Inventory NG asks its agents to know the software and hardware composition of every computer or server. OCS Inventory also ask to discover network’s elements which can’t receive an agent. Since the version 2.0, OCS Inventory NG take in charge the SNMP scans functionality. This functionality’s main goal is to complete the data retrieved from the IP Discover scan. These SNMP scans will allow you to add a lot more informations from your network devices : printers, scanner, routers, computer without agents, …

Deployment

OCS Inventory NG includes the packet deployment functionality to be sure that all of the softwares environments which are on the network are the same. From the central management server, you can send the packets which will be downloaded with HTTP/HTTPS and launched by the agent on client’s computer. The OCS deployment is configured to make the packets less impactable on the network. OCS is used as a deployment tool on IT stock of more 100 000 devices.

Requirements

For the requirements, please follow the OCS Inventory documentation :

http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/01.Prerequisites/Libraries-version/

Installation

To install OCSInventory server simply run the setup script

sh setup.sh

If you want to install webconsole OCS Reports you need to fork OCSInventory-ocsreports as ocsreports

git clone https://github.com/OCSInventory-NG/OCSInventory-ocsreports.git ocsreports

For more informations, please follow the OCS Inventory documentation :

http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/03.Basic-documentation/Setting-up-a-OCS-Inventory-Server/

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Add your changes: git add folder/file1.php
4. Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add some feature'
5. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
6. Submit a pull request !

License

OCS Inventory is GPLv2 licensed