- OCS Inventory
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OCS Inventory Stable release 2.0 / May 12, 2011 Platform multi-platform (Unices, Windows, others) Available in Perl, PHP Type hardware inventory License GNU General Public License[1] Website ocsinventory-ng.org Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation (OCS inventory NG) is free software that enables users to inventory their IT assets. OCS-NG collects information about the hardware and software of networked machines running the OCS client program ("OCS Inventory Agent"). OCS can be used to visualize the inventory through a web interface. Furthermore, OCS comprises the possibility of deploying applications on the computers according to search criteria. Agent-side IpDiscover makes it possible to know the entirety of networked computers and devices.
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Internal operation
The dialogue between OCS client machines and the server is based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the formatting of the data is done in XML.
Server
The management server uses Apache, MySQL and Perl. OCS is multi-platform: it runs under Unixes as well as under Microsoft Windows (95 or later).
Thanks to its very simple design and the use of mod_perl, server-side performance is very good. A modest machine can thus inventory several thousands of machines.
Agents
In order to collect the maximum of information possible, the agents are installed on the machines to inventory.
- Windows,
- Linux,
- Mac OS X,
- Sun Solaris,
- IBM AIX
- FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Web interface
An optional web interface written in PHP offers complementary services:
- consultation of the inventory
- user rights management
- an interface of breakdown service (or Helpdesk) for the technicians
Extension
OCS Inventory can be used to feed the manager of GLPI and thus offers part of an IT asset management solution.
Modularity
Since version 1.0rc3, most of OCS Inventory functionality can be adapted or extended via a module system.
License
OCS Inventory is a free software published under GNU GPL v2. The developers are direct holders of the royalties.
References
External links
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