Having arrived at this point simply means that our inventory is together and we know how to use most of its built-in functions to get inventory-related tasks done. Each chapter, until this point, covered areas of our inventory solution that are required to fully comprehend and help us get our jobs done. Now we are going to continue our journey by presenting one distinctive functionality of OCS-NG: package deployment and remote execution.
It is not one of the most significant features of the inventory solution, but it is one of those functions which people expect to see support for. In the IT world, when there's a centralized server and many agents, we all want to see some kind of remote execution of commands. This is just an extension of the agents working for the server. Carrying out these sort of tasks remotely (deploying and launching packages) cannot be neglected.
The developers included support for this feature because the infrastructure of...