OCS Inventory
| Stable release | 2.0 / May 12, 2011 |
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| 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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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Extension
OCS Inventory can be used to feed the manager of GLPI and thus offers part of an IT asset management solution.
[edit] Modularity
Since version 1.0rc3, most of OCS Inventory functionality can be adapted or extended via a module system.
[edit] License
OCS Inventory is a free software published under GNU GPL v2. The developers are direct holders of the royalties.
