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OCS at Solutions Linux 2010

Jan 30, 2010

Category: English

Posted by: bibi92

Come and meet OCS Inventory NG development members during Solutions Linux 2010 at Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles, Hall 1, 16 to 18 march 2010.

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network.

Information about Hardware and Operating System are collected.

BIOS		System serial number, System manufacturer, System model, BIOS manufacturer, BIOS version, BIOS date.
Processors		Type (Pentium with MXX, Penitum II, Penitum III, Pentium IV, Celeron, Athlon, Duron...), Processor speed, Number of Processors.
Memory slot arrays		Caption and description, Capacity in MB, Purpose (system memory, flash memory...), Type of memory (SDRAM, DDR...), Speed in MHz, Slot number.
Total physical memory		in MB
Total paging file or swap size		in MB
Input devices		Type (keyboard or pointing), Manufacturer, Caption, Description, Interface used (PS/2, USB...).
System Ports		Type (serial or parallel), Name, caption and description.
System Slots		Name, Description, Designation (AGP1, PCI1, PCI2, ISA1...).
System Controllers		Manufacturer, Name, Type (Floppy, IDE, SCSI, USB, PCMCIA, IEEE1394, Infrared).
Storage peripherals		Manufacturer, Model, Description, Type (Floppy, Hard disk, CD-Rom, Removable, Tape...), Size in MB.
Logical drives / partitions		Logical drive letter, Type (removable, hard drive, cd-rom, network, RAM...), File system (FAT, FAT32, NTFS...), Total size in MB, Free space in MB.
Sound devices		Manufacturer, Name, Description.
Video adapters		Name, Chipset, Memory in MB, Screen resolution.
Display monitors		Manufacturer, Caption, Description, Type, Serial number.
Telephony modems		Name, Model, Description, Type (internal, external...).
Network Adapters		Description, Type (Dialup, Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM...), Speed (in Mb/s or Gb/s), MAC Address, IP Address, IP Network Mask, IP gateway, DHCP server used.
Printers		Name, Driver, Connection port.
Operating System		Name (Linux, Windows 95/98/Me/NT Workstation/NT Server/2000 Professional/2000 Server...), Version (4.0.1381 for NT4, 4.10.2222 for 98 SE...), Comments (Operating System Release for Windows 9X, Service Packs for NT/2000/XP), Registered company, Registered owner, Registered product ID.
Software		extracted from the registry as shown in the "Add/Remove software" control panel applet: Name, Publisher, Version.
Registry values		if you want to query for some key under one of Windows registry hives.
Computer description		as shown in the Identification Tab of the Network Settings dialog box.

OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active devices on your network, such as switch, router, network printer and unattended devices. For each one, it stores MAC and IP addresses and allows you to classify them.

When running Administration console under Linux, if nmap and nmblookup are available, you will also be able to scan an IP or a sub network for detailled informations about uninventoried hosts.