OCS Inventory NG is a healthy project that is still supported and has a dedicated small team of developers behind it. While updates are not that frequent, this doesn't mean that there are no updates. There are rarely major updates concerning the OCS management server or communication server. However, when that happens, we need to know how to install the update.
First of all, let's consider a safety tip. We need to back up our database. Yes, back it up! NOW! Read that sentence again. This is crucial as newer updates always bring a little bit of schema update and change the structure of our OCS database (ocsweb, in our case). The steps for backing up the database were explained at the beginning of this chapter.
Moving on, we download the latest OCS-NG central server archive and extract it into the /var/www/ocsreports/
folder depending on our configuration (or \xampp\ocsreports\
). We overwrite our files and move on. From this step, there are two little...