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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

Introducing GLPI: IT asset management on steroids


It goes without saying that inside any IT-centric environments, the hardware components need to be organized and administered. These assets, such as computers, monitors, phones, and so on need to be tracked, inventoried, monitored, and maintained. Some kind of application is required to track everything and update their status while servicing. GLPI comes to serve this scope, aside from many others as well.

The name of this application is a four-letter acronym of Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique. It is an open source project of French origin. The project's website can be accessed at http://www.glpi-project.org/.

GLPI is a robust and well-rounded product. It is used all over the world, and at the time of writing, over 1,650 entities reported publicly that they are using GLPI in their IT department. According to the reported numbers, almost one million computers are administered.

Therefore, these should make us sufficiently confident to rely...