OCS Inventory Help needed

[PEO]

Hi

 

Im trying to setup OCS inventory on a xp machine but I'm not having any look in picking up machines.

 

I've followed the instructions for installing the Management server on a Windows machine using the passwords it says to use.

 

after installing the server part, should I be able to see all the machines currently switched on? I can't so i insalled the client software OCSAgentSetup.exe. still no joy.

 

any suggestions please as I'm well stuck

[alan-d]

Sorry - Can't help. I got as far as you have. It's sidelined for the mo due to a lack of manning and other projects but I'd like to see what the solution is

[plexer]

What instructions have you used for deploying the agent?

 

You have to configure the agents options so it knows the address of the server to talk to.

 

You can do this by just renaming the exe to be the ip address of the server machine i.e 192.168.1.1.exe and then when it runs on a client it will connect and inventory itself.

 

Also be aware that it doesn't always inventory straight away to avoid all machiens doing so at the same time it waits for a delay.

 

Ben

[PEO]

What instructions have you used for deploying the agent?

 

You have to configure the agents options so it knows the address of the server to talk to.

 

You can do this by just renaming the exe to be the ip address of the server machine i.e 192.168.1.1.exe and then when it runs on a client it will connect and inventory itself.

 

Also be aware that it doesn't always inventory straight away to avoid all machiens doing so at the same time it waits for a delay.

 

Ben

 

here is the Link to the pdf document.

 

Once I've changed the .exe name to the 10.64.67.199 is there any way i can force it to send info from clent to server so i can see if it works?

 

@ Alan-d will let you know how i get on

 

cheers

[plexer]

Page 40 of the manual list the parameters you can use.

 

Ben

[PEO]

what parameters?

[plexer]

Ok I was looking at the old manual page 72/73 of that manual.

 

Ben

[PEO]

when i installed the server part, i didnt give a tag. is that really

needed?

[plexer]

nope

[Outpost]

I sent my agents out via group policy with the parameters set up.

It didn't always work but all the agents were installed, just the settings didn't always take.

If you want the clients to report early, then once the agent is installed on the clients you need to stop the OCS Inventory Service on each machine and modify the service.ini file, specifically just change the TTO_WAIT to a few seconds. Its in C:\Program Files\OCS Inventory Agent. Then start your OCS service and it reports by the time you specified in the service.ini file

 

Tags are not necessary at install but I did mine later once they were all reported.

 

Its a great piece of software, well worth the effort.

 

Good luck with it.

[PEO]

right will give that ago after i've done my dinner duty

[PEO]

WOOO WEEEEE WOOOOO YEAH!

 

Thats pleased me :-)

 

I had done everything spot on it was just the waiting time for the info to be uploaded.

 

whats everyone else set the times to in the service.ini?

 

at 5k of bandwith i could just set them all to a lower time

[PEO]

I sent my agents out via group policy with the parameters set up.

It didn't always work but all the agents were installed, just the settings didn't always take.

If you want the clients to report early, then once the agent is installed on the clients you need to stop the OCS Inventory Service on each machine and modify the service.ini file, specifically just change the TTO_WAIT to a few seconds. Its in C:\Program Files\OCS Inventory Agent. Then start your OCS service and it reports by the time you specified in the service.ini file

 

Tags are not necessary at install but I did mine later once they were all reported.

 

Its a great piece of software, well worth the effort.

 

Good luck with it.

 

dont mean to seem thick, but what are the tags for?

[Guest Guest]

^ hahahahaha he doesnt know what the tags arr for!!!

 

 

 

 

Neither do i lol

[webman]

5.2 T AG / number of PC repartition.

This query allow you to display all machine grouped by TAG account info.

 

Click on the computers count to retrieve the corresponding devices. For example, if you’ve choose to set your TAG information to reflect your geographical sites, this will display the number of computer in each different site.

[PEO]

bugga, didnt see that bit, cheers craig.

 

@plexer and outpost

 

I now need to export what software is installed on each machine. It dose'nt seem to have this function. I can print a list but my NM dosent want that.

[PEO]

*bump*

[Ric_]

GLPI has some more advanced reporting functions and integrates well with OCS... I don't use OCS directly so cannot help much more than offering this as a solution.

[PEO]

cheers ric. will take a look into this

[Kained]

Not sure if this has been recommended but give

 

Steel Inventory

 

Its free give it a whirl

[cwallace]

I have read through this thread and made a few changes on my end from what I have seen...i.e. renaming the executable to the IP address...simple stuff...

 

I have logged in with a test account that is triggering the script. I see the little box pop up saying it is loading the OCS software...progress % displays and the box goes away.

 

Would I see anything else to indicate that it HAS run and is now active or has done it's thing?

 

I do not see a service relating to the software by name or anything that might be it...

 

I am waiting a little while to see if it does propagate and show an inventory, but at this point I see nothing...

 

Could there be other things I have missed? Insight would be awesome...

 

Thanks,

Chris

[Guest Guest]

Give it time, it does seem to take a while to get to the server as each computer waits a random amount of time before it talks to the server.

[cwallace]

Yeah...I will check it again tomorrow. This is no rush. I am only running the script on one machine right now.

 

Will followup either way...

 

Thank you for the fast response...

 

Chris