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IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02

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IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02

Overview of this book

OCS Inventory NG is a cross-platform, open-source inventory and asset management solution. It brings more than plentiful features to the table to satisfy the business needs of small-to-large organizations with up to tens of thousands of computers. However, to put this inventory solution to optimum use requires a lot of skill.This book will lead you through the steps of implementing OCS-NG until you master working with it. This book aims at reducing efforts involved in resource management. The solution gives a robust foundation on top of which we can implement other third party applications, plugins, and much more.This book begins with the basics—it explains what IT inventorying needs are to be met in the real-world. Then, it covers a step-by-step approach to everything you need to know to set up and implement OCS-NG as a centralized inventory solution to meet all these requirements. It delves deeper into carrying out inventory tasks with every chapter.You will learn how to choose the best agent type and deployment method. We discuss the process of gathering inventory data and cover techniques for creating and deploying packages. You will also learn how to acquire added benefits with the use of plugins. We discuss best practices on inventorying and troubleshooting agent-related problems. The book presents real-world inventorying scenarios along with their solutions. You will basically learn how to use OCS-NG to get the most out of it.As a conclusion, if you want to learn about a free solution that fulfils inventorying necessities of the real-world, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Keeping Pace with Version Updates—Glancing over the changelog of the Latest Release

Server requirements for effortless deployment


There are a few important server requirement points that we need to address. These should be checked before we head further as they can create lots of headaches.

First, we need to check if the web administration console is running through the PHP engine. When we create a package and browse for the source file, this needs to be uploaded to the server. This uploading happens via PHP POST. For small files, this won't create problems, but in order to be sure, we need to check the file upload settings in the PHP.ini config file.

Please look into the official PHP documentation for more accurate and in-depth information as this depends on what version you are running. On PHP5, the configuration file is named php5.ini. The older PHP 4 versions are just defaulting on php.ini.

The config variables that we need to deal with (modify or add those lines) are given as follows:

memory_limit = 96M
post_max_size = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 64M

This kind of setup...