Oct 8, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing OCS Inventory Part 3 (Linux Agent)

Welcome to part 3 of the series on Installing OCS Inventory NG. In this part of the series we will cover installing the UNIX Agent on CentOS 6 (RHEL 6.0 based). Note: OCS Inventory NG Agent for Linux can only be installed locally and cannot be deployed using package manager. Now let’s get started and download the agent from here. For Linux / Unix these are the required modules. PERL 5.8 Perl module... read more

Oct 2, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing GLPI

The description of GLPI according to their site is, 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... read more

Oct 2, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing OCS Inventory NG Part 2

As we continue deploying OCS Inventory NG in our network we now must install the agents on our Windows and Linux systems. We at least need to get the agent installed on one Windows system to use the packaging system to deploy the packages. For this post we will just show how to install the agents. Let’s start with installation of a Windows agent. Download the Windows agent from here and unzip the file.... read more

Oct 1, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Configure SNMP for RHEL 6

SNMP is a very powerful and useful tool to add to your Linux system. It is great for sending alerts to different monitoring systems like Nagios and many other great products. But first it needs to be installed and configured before you can put this under rated tool to work. Install SNMP using yum, you will need net-snmp-utils, net-snmp, net-snmp-libs. $ sudo yum install –y net-snmp-utils net-snmp... read more

Oct 1, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing OCS Inventory NG Part 1

With a small office and on a budget needed to find a way to manage our amassing computer equipment. Enter in OCS Inventory NG (Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation) OCS Inventory NG 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. OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active... read more