It should not surprise anyone that in this chapter, we are also going to spend most of our time using the web administration console of OCS-NG. For the first step, we need to fire up our browser and log in to the web interface. In Chapter 4, Finding your Way through OCS-NG Features, we read a rundown on each function of OCS-NG, and we presented glimpses of the package deployment menu.
It is located as the first icon of the yellow action bar. It is called Deployment, and we have three options under this drop-down menu. Their names are self-explanatory; the Build option deals with building a package, the Activate option manages the activation of those already existing packages (if there are any), and with the final option, we can set up, modify, and remove Rules of affectation.
Here's a screenshot of the Deployment menu:
What happens behind the scenes when a package is about to be deployed? Firstly, when we create the package, it is stored on...