As obvious as it seems, we have built and want to maintain a full-fledged inventory platform with the ability to gather and store data in a centralized solution. Ultimately, that is the goal of inventorying and asset management. The OCS-NG agents, are pulling out a huge amount of information that is stored in the central database. Through the OCS-NG web interface we have a user-friendly manner to access and work with this data.
Imagine how hard it would be to generate SQL queries inside some database interpreter. That would not really be a seamless inventory interface. The web interface does all of these behind the scenes. We just need to learn its functions and features.
Besides those five query functions that we talked about earlier, which are present on the blue toolbar on the left, the inventory is much more capable of performing other functions as well. As mentioned earlier, every time we click on a hyperlink, such as a hostname, a new browser tab is opened...