Official Web Site : http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/.

Of course, install could be done using YUM :

yum --enablerepo=remi install ocsinventory

The ocsinventory package is a meta-package which allow to install in a single command:

  • ocsinventory-server : the Communication server
  • ocsinventory-reports : the Administration console
  • mysql-server : the Database server
Of course, it's possible to install each sub-package separately on different computers.

If you still prefer the download : the repository (available for Fedora ≥ 6 and RHEL / CentOS ≥ 4)

After installation of the packages, connect on http://localhost/ocsreports/ to create the database and configure the application (or migrate to the new DB schema).

You should read : OCS and GLPI installation guide which could simplify the installation process.

Of course, I'm wating for your feedback on this application, a "must be used" with GLPI, which seems to works well with this new version. but I think we could encounter encoding issues (in this case, changing the OCS_OPT_UNICODE_SUPPORT could be a solution, to switch back to the 1.02 behaviour).

For the inventory of linux computer, two agents are available:

The language selection from the login page (even for english) is mandatory to have a working interface. This issue is reported upstream.