{"id":743,"date":"2021-07-12T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/?p=743"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:42:42","slug":"install-ocs-inventory-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Install OCS Inventory on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OCS stands for Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation. This is an open-source assets management and deployment solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a couple of steps to install OCS inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prerequisites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

yum install -y epel-release yum-utils vim wget<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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wget https:\/\/rpms.remirepo.net\/enterprise\/remi-release-7.rpm --no-check-certificate<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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wget https:\/\/rpm.ocsinventory-ng.org\/ocsinventory-release-latest.el7.ocs.noarch.rpm --no-check-certificate<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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yum install -y ocsinventory-release-latest.el7.ocs.noarch.rpm remi-release-7.rpm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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yum-config-manager --enable remi && yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Create a .repo file so that MariaDB can be installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
vim \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/MariaDB.repo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Install the whole bunch of applications and extensions that are required to run OCS <\/p>\n\n\n\n
yum install -y httpd MariaDB-client MariaDB-server perl-Archive-Zip perl-Compress-Zlib perl-DBD-MySQL perl-DBI perl-Mojolicious perl-Net-IP perl-Plack perl-SOAP-Lite perl-Switch perl-XML-Entities perl-XML-Simple php php-cli php-common php-curl php-domxml php-gd php-imap php-intl php-ldap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-mysqlnd php-opcache php-pdo php-pear-CAS php-pecl-apcu php-pecl-zip php-simplexml php-soap php-sodium php-xmlrpc php-zip<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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yum update && yum upgrade<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Install OCS Inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yum install -y ocsinventory<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Configure the MariaDB database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
systemctl enable mariadb\nsystemctl start mariadb\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Secure MySQL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mysql_secure_installation<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Create a new an ocsweb database and assign permissions for user ocs\/ocs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mysql -u root -p\nMariaDB [(none)]> create database ocsweb;\nCREATE USER 'ocs'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ocs';\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ocsweb. * TO 'ocs'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ocs';\nflush privileges;\nexit;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Allow HTTP and HTTPS on Firewall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http\nfirewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https\nfirewall-cmd \u2013reload\nfirewall-cmd --list-services\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Configure the MariaDB database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
systemctl enable mariadb && systemctl start mariadb<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Setup OCS user\/password on OCS configuration\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
vim \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/ocsinventory-server.conf<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
# Name of database\nPerlSetEnv OCS_DB_NAME ocsweb\nPerlSetEnv OCS_DB_LOCAL ocsweb\n# User allowed to connect to database\nPerlSetEnv OCS_DB_USER ocs\n# Password for user\nPerlSetVar OCS_DB_PWD ocs\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Enables and restarts Apache Web Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
systemctl enable httpd && systemctl start httpd<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Check TCP ports are running on the server.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Access OCS Inventory web interface (http:\/\/IPaddressofOCS\/ocsreports).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Enter user\/password is admin\/admin to log on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rename the \u201cinstall.php<\/strong>\u201d file in the \u201cOCSReports\u201d directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mv \/usr\/share\/ocsinventory-reports\/ocsreports\/install.php \/usr\/share\/ocsinventory-reports\/ocsreports\/install.php.bak<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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+ Install OCS Inventory agent via GPO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Create a logon script OCSinventory.bat<\/p>\n\n\n\n
@echo off\n\\\\dc1.cisalab.local\\shared\\OCS-Windows-Agent-2.9.0.0_x64\\OCS-Windows-Agent-Setup-x64.exe \/S \/SERVER=http:\/\/10.0.0.13\/ocsinventory\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Create a new GPO and link the script to the domain level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Restart Windows 10 domain-joined machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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OCS inventory agent has been automatically installed on this machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Check TCP connection from Windows 10 machine to OCS Inventory server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get-NetTcpConnection -RemoteAddress 10.0.0.13<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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OCS stands for Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation. This is an open-source assets management and deployment solution. Below is a couple of steps to install OCS inventory. Prerequisites Create a .repo file so that MariaDB can be installed. Install the whole bunch of applications and extensions that are required to run OCS Install […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungle.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}