Arriving at this stage means that we have installed the OCS-NG management server. If we had chosen to install the server on Linux, then we would need to fire up our favorite browser and visit the following link. On Windows installations, a new browser is redirected to the following URL:
http://localhost/ocsreports/install.php
This is when we need to specify the MySQL database log in information for our inventory solution. This is important as it must be able to communicate with the database. The user must have the eligible rights to create databases and tables. Under normal circumstances, this user is root
. The password is the one we specified earlier. Hostname is localhost
, if the MySQL server runs on the same machine as the OCS-NG server (like we did).
This step creates a new database called ocsweb
, and a new MySQL user ocs
with password ocs. The database schema is created according to the specifications OCS-NG is able to work with. It is he user...