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Jul 8, 2010

Category: English

Posted by: plemmet

The windows agent has been totally rewritten, it now includes a lot of new features that were asked by the community.

Jun 20, 2010

Category: English

Posted by: airoine

New book talking about OCSInventory has just been published.

When using launcher "OcsLogon.exe" to deploy agent or run the agent, you can use the following command line switches.

Category: Windows_agent

Posted by: Anonymous

Network switches:

/DEPLOY:XXXX: force deployment of a specific agent version XXXX. For example, Agent 1.00 file version was 4.0.3.0, so XXXX must be set to 4030.
/install: tells launcher to setup Service Agent, instead of Standalone Agent.
/URL:[download_url]: tells launcher to download Standalone agent "ocsagent.exe" or Service Agent "ocspackage.exe" from the specified [download_url] (without final filename). Useful for deploying Agent in mulitple NT or Active Directory domain, but using a single Communication Server.
/NP: disable use of proxy defined in Internet Explorer settings.
/PNUM:X: specify an IP port X for web communication server. By default, HTTP port 80 is used. You can force use of port 8080 for example with the argument /PNUM:8080.
/LOCAL: run agent in local inventory mode. So agent does not try to connect to Communication server. A file "computer_name.ocs", containing inventory results in compressed XML, will be created in agent's directory.

TAG switches:

/TAG:["My TAG value"]: tells launcher to use TAG value "My TAG value" when it setup and laucnhes agent for the first time.
/NOTAG: tells launcher to never use TAG value.

Debug switches:

/DEBUG: create log files "OcsLogon.log" and "computer_name.log" in agent's directory.

Agent's switches:

OcsLogon also supports all agent's command line switches, as described in the other article. These switches will be used to launch agent.