Topic: SME8 experiences with contribs: OCS Inventory

[uli334]

Hello,

currently migrating from SME7 to SME8 here some experiences with the installation of the contrib "OCS-Inventory" on SME8.

Note: the SME7 contrib of "OCS-Inventury" also contained the managementtool "GPLI". This is not included in the installation I discribe here. My description results in an working OCS, but anyway it is patchwork, matching components intended for SME7...

Installation OCS for SME8:
OCS Ver. 1.3.3

First install 3 packages from SME8 contribs:
(ocsinventory.noarch.1.3.3-5.el5, ocsinventory-reports.noarch.1.3.3-5.el5, ocsinventory-server-1.3.3-5.el5.noarch.rpm):

  - yum install ocsinventory* --enablerepo=smecontribs

Then SME-OCS package:
  - make some temporary directory for downloading installation files and go there. This directory can be deleted after OCS installation... Then:
  - wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/7.6/smecontribs/i386/RPMS/smeserver-ocsinventory-0.1-11.el4.sme.noarch.rpm
  - yum localinstall smeserver-ocsinventory-0.1-11.el4.sme.noarch.rpm

After this:

  - signal-event ocs-update
  - signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

When SME has restarted, OCS installation is continued from brower- interface:

  - https://yourserver/ocs/install.php
  - in the following press the two buttons "Send...", then delete "install.php" on the SME shell:
  - rm -f /usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/install.php

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Installation of the OCS agent on the server:

Agent installation contains these three packages:
  - ocsinventory-agent-0.0.6-1.el4.remi.noarch.rpm
  - ocsinventory-ipdiscover-1.01-2.el4.remi.i386.rpm
  - monitor-edid-1.11-1.el4.remi.i386.rpm

Download and installation:
  - wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/sgomez/contribs/inventory/ocs_linux_agent-0.0.6.tar.gz
  - tar xzf ocs_linux_agent-0.0.6.tar.gz
  - cd ocs_linux_agent-0.0.6
  - yum localinstall *rpm

Setting up the agent:
  - nano /etc/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinv.conf
    - here edit the entries "OCSSERVER=<ServerIP> and OCSTAG=<Tag>"
First start of the agent:
  - ocsinventory-agent --server=<ServerIP>

Now it appears in the OCS web-interface.

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Activation of software deployment:

Under "/configuration/configuration/Deployment/":
  - "Download" to "on"
  - "Deploy" to "on"

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Greetings,
Uli