OCS Inventory NG is a powerful inventory platform that has plenty of capabilities right out of the box. As we progressed with the book, we learnt how to build the server foundation and spread the agents across the infrastructure. Each chapter discussed some aspects of OCS-NG, and we gradually got into the depths of it. The structure of the inventory that OCS-NG creates opens up possibilities for extensions.
Everything that the agents gather is stored in the OCS-NG database. This means that by taking one step further, there could be applications that run on top of our database, using the data that is already acquired and stored. In this chapter, we will present and overview the benefits of GLPI. This is an open source application that is an IT Information Resource Manager. It deals with the organization and management of all kinds of IT assets.
We will see how this extension can make our lives easier by supercharging our already robust and feature-laden...