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How to install OCSInvntory on Ubuntu 18.04?

In today’s world, organizations are moving at the level of increasingly demanding users. To ensure that companies have the right view of things every day, they need to control the assets they have, part of which is computer equipment. We are talking about the inventory of computer equipment.

Inventories are tangible goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business or to be consumed in the production of goods or services for subsequent marketing.

It’s usually a tedious process carried out manually, but thanks to the efforts of some developers, it’s possible to do it automatically and efficiently with OCSInventory.

OCSInventory allows you to collect hardware and software inventory from all active devices on the network, such as computers, switches, routers, network printers and unattended devices. It Supports for multiple operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, * BSD, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, MacOS X. It has the ability to support Plugins and integrates seamlessly with GLPI.

Let’s install it!!

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First of all we must be root users. We open a terminal and write:

sudo -i

1.- Logging as root user
1.- Logging as root user

After entering the password we will be root users. Then we installed LAMP Stack.

apt install apache2 php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-cgi mariadb-server mariadb-client php7.2-mysql mariadb-common

2.- Installing LAMP
2.- Installing LAMP

Once the installation of the packages is finished we will have a basic web server. Now we proceed to install basic compilation packages.

 apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

3.- Installing build essentials
3.- Installing build essentials

Next we must install some perl modules needed.

apt install libxml-simple-perl libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libapache-dbi-perl libnet-ip-perl libsoap-lite-perl

4.- PERL Modules
4.- PERL Modules

Now we write:

cpan -i XML::Entities

5.- Perl Modules
5.- Perl Modules

We install other necessary php modules.

apt install php7.2-gd php-pclzip

6.- Installing php modules
6.- Installing php modules

We now proceed to download the OSCInventory.

wget https://github.com/OCSInventory-NG/OCSInventory-ocsreports/releases/download/2.4.1/OCSNG_UNIX_SERVER_2.4.1.tar.gz

7.- Downloading OCSInventory
7.- Downloading OCSInventory

Now we unzip the archive.

tar -xvzf OCSNG_UNIX_SERVER_2.4.1.tar.gz

8.- Unziping file
8.- Unziping file

Now we rename the folder, and move it to our apache root directory:

mv OCSNG_UNIX_SERVER_2.4.1 /var/www/html/OCS

Before starting the installation, we installed other necessary php modules.

apt install php7.2-soap php7.2-curl php7.2-xml php7.2-xmlrpc

9.- Installing php extra modules
9.- Installing php extra modules

Now we enter the directory and run the setup.sh script

cd /var/www/html/OCS

and:

sh setup.sh

Running it will ask us many questions about configuration file locations, executable files and check the installed PERL modules. In the end, if everything went well, we should get the message that the installation was successful.

10.- Running the installation script
10.- Running the installation script

11.- Running the installation script
11.- Running the installation script

12.- Running the installation script
12.- Running the installation script

Before running its web interface, we must copy the apache configuration that the installer creates as a new apache site.

a2enconf ocsinventory-reports
a2enconf z-ocsinventory-server

Finally, we make sure we have permissions on the /var/lib/ocsinventory-reports/ folder and we restart apache.

<strong>chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/ocsinventory-reports/
chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/OCS/*
systemctl restart apache2
</strong>

Accessing the web interface

Now we can access the web interface from our browser:

http://localhost/OCS/ocsreports

Note: Remember that the path might be different, so it is important to be careful about assigning folder names.

13.- Running the OSCInventory web interface
13.- Running the OSCInventory web interface

As we can notice, we skip the warning that we can’t build larger 2mb packages, so we must modify that value in the PHP configuration file.

nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

We will modify the parameters: upload_max_filesize and post_max_size

14.- Modifying the php configuration file
14.- Modifying the php configuration file

15.- Modifying the php configuration file
15.- Modifying the php configuration file

And we restart Apache:

systemctl restart apache2

When accessing again, we notice that the warning continues but 250mb is a suitable value that should not cause problems.

16.- Completing the installation
16.- Completing the installation

When you click on send, it will take a while to complete the installation and then inform us that we can access with user admin and password admin

17.- Installation success
17.- Installation success of OCSInventory

By clicking on the link below, we can then log in.

18.- Logging in
18.- Logging in

Then when you log in, and check that everything is OK, we must remove the installer. As a recommendation you should change the password for mariadb.

19.- Dashboard of OCSInventory
19.- Dashboard of OCSInventory

Now we would have to install the agent in each of the computers that we want to inventory.

As a conclusion we can say that OCSInventory is an interesting application in the world of organizations that allows us to have an updated and reliable inventory of all our computer equipment.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Buenas, no se por qué, pero siempre recibo este error al instalar ocs:

    Checking for DBI PERL module…
    Found that PERL module DBI is available.
    Checking for Apache::DBI PERL module…
    Found that PERL module Apache::DBI is available.
    Checking for DBD::mysql PERL module…
    *** ERROR: PERL module DBD::mysql is not installed !
    Checking for Compress::Zlib PERL module…
    Found that PERL module Compress::Zlib is available.
    Checking for XML::Simple PERL module…
    Found that PERL module XML::Simple is available.
    Checking for Net::IP PERL module…
    Found that PERL module Net::IP is available.
    Checking for SOAP::Lite Perl module…
    Found that PERL module SOAP::Lite is available.
    Checking for Archive::Zip Perl module…
    Found that PERL module Archive::Zip is available.
    *** ERROR: There is one or more required PERL modules missing on your computer !
    Please, install missing PERL modules first.

  2. Install them by executing:
    cpan -i Apache::DBI
    cpan -i DBD::mysql
    cpan -i XML::Simple
    cpan -i Net::IP
    cpan -i SOAP::Lite
    cpan -i Archive::Zip
    cpan -i Mojolicious

  3. hi, Angeloma,
    G’day to you. I just explore the ocsinventory and found your article.
    I have issue to install Admin Server after everything, last part failed.

    please find the error below and advise. Appreciate you can get back to me ASAP.
    ============================================================
    Installing Administration server
    ============================================================
    Checking for Administration Server directories…
    Using directory /usr/share/ocsinventory-reports for static files
    Using /var/lib/ocsinventory-reports as writable/cache directory
    Checking for DBI PERL module
    PERL module DBI is available
    Checking for DBD::mysql PERL module
    PERL module DBD::mysql is available
    Checking for XML::Simple PERL module
    PERL module XML::Simple is available
    Checking for Net::IP PERL module
    PERL module Net::IP is available
    Creating PHP directory /usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports
    Copying PHP files to /usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports
    cp: cannot stat ‘ocsreports/*’: No such file or directory

  4. hi, no luck.
    FYI, I have reinstall the Ubuntu 18 and setup by following your guide, is missing php mbstring.
    Another error i have facing is the database setup having error.

    ERROR: Can’t connect to MySQL. Please enter a valid login/password. (host=localhost login=ocs password=ocs)
    ERROR: MySql connection problem 1698
    Access denied for user ‘ocs’@’localhost’

    Previously i have follow all the instruction to create users and also provide privilege, still failed.

    Please advise, thanks and appreciate.

  5. Hi, Angeloma,

    G’day to you. I managed to installed ocs inventory. As for your article, if possible, do update on the database. Refer to the db, do mention on the create user and grant privileges.

    I need to search google on the mariadb article. Then i be able to login ocs mysql.

    Hope you be able to update on this details.

    Thanks and GOD BLESS.

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