The OCS-NG management server encloses all of the four server roles that our inventory solution entails. It is the centralized heart of the inventory. In this chapter, we're going to look through the necessary steps to prepare our system in order to fulfill the general requirements of running OCS-NG management server. As it is a cross-platform project, we will cover the installation on specific Linux flavors and on a Windows server operating system.
The actual installation process is console based on Linux environments. It is verbosely logged, and the steps can be easily followed. It is straightforward. On Microsoft Windows operating systems, there is a de facto standard Win32 setup-like installation wizard.
OCS Inventory NG runs on top of the popular Apache web server, using MySQL's InnoDB engine and the PHP server-side scripting language. In order to install the OCS-NG management server, the system must have these prerequisites installed and configured...