OCS Inventory

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Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation or OCS Inventory NG is a free inventory management software for Unix-like computer under or Microsoft Windows operating systems. This program can be managed and supplemented in accordance with presettable selection criteria both an overview of the computer system used to with the OCS client program (OCS Inventory Agent ) in a computer network existing hardware and software created as well as the software used on this hardware. The management of orders via a web interface. The OCS Inventory NG Software originated from 2001 and was essentially written by French writers program, which will continue to own the copyright to the software.

Functions

OCS Inventory NG provides the following core functions:

  • Software Distribution
  • Inventory ( hardware and software)

The software OCS Inventory can pass data to the GLPI program which provides a powerful interface for managing the computerized inventory available.

Since version 1.0rc3 most of the functionality of OCS Inventory are modularized and can be easily modified or extended.

OCS Inventory NG Agent

The Windows Agent is written in C , Linux Agent in C and PERL.

The Inventory Agent permit on the inclusion of locally visible IP addresses in the network representation of the network nodes.

OCS Inventory NG server

The OCS Inventory NG Server includes four components

  • Database server, database stores the inventory
  • Communication server, händelt HTTP communications between database server and agents
  • Deploymentserver, stores the package properties
  • Administration console, querying databases via browser

The communication between the agent and server communication is done via HTTP / HTTPS, the data is zlib compressed XML. The communication server is written in PERL. Currently only MySQL be used for the database server.

The one or more management servers use Apache, MySQL and Perl, as the operating system can access the server Unix derivatives, Windows 2000 or its successor versions are used. If servers are to be used under Unix, the tasks can be distributed over several computers, running Windows, the software is installed in a package on a computer. Due to its simple program structure and the use of mod_perl even simple computers are sufficient as a server for a sufficient server speed even with thousands of client computers.

Software to be installed can be grouped into packages that can be distributed according to predefined priorities and installed according to individual specifications.

Management interface

The management interface is a web interface that is written in PHP, it's in October 2010 in eleven languages ​​available.

The optionally installable web interface allows querying of the inventories, the management of user rights, and provides an interface for configuring the software distribution.

Supported Operating System Versions

OCS Inventory NG Agent supports Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 or NT 4.0 to Windows 7 or Server 2008, various Linux distributions ( CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandriva, RedHat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, Ubuntu), various BSDs ( OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD ) and Solaris, AIX and Mac OS X.

OCS Inventory NG Server supports most of these operating systems also.

Support

Awards

In 2006, the software has been honored with the Trophée du Libre with the first prize in the field of security. In 2007 the program was discussed in French editions of Linux Magazine. In 2009 the software came into the final round of voting of users of SourceForge programs.

Development

In February 2010, further developed by a number of project participants Fork FusionInventory who remain on the one compatible with OCS and also seeks to enable easier integration with other software products, such as GLPI and GOsa ² arose. To simplify the development, OCS Unix Agent has only been ported to Windows, several ports not yet emerged.

Software deployment Windows Server 2008 Red Hat Enterprise Linux IBM AIX
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