OCS Inventory NG Unix agent requirements

See also

• https://github.com/OCSInventory-NG

The following commands are needed:

• dmidecode on Linux and BSD (i386, amd64, ia64) => dmidecode is required to read the BIOS stats.

• lspci on Linux and BSD (pciutils package) => lspci is required to list PCI devices.

• sneep on Solaris/sparc, you must install sneep and record the Serial Number with it (download it from http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4304155a )

• To get the serial number of the screen you will need one of these tools:

  • monitor-edid from Mandriva is needed to fetch the monitor. A package is available in Fedora repository information http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/monitor-edid

  • get-edid from the read-edid package

• ipmitool if you want to collect information about IPMI

• Nmap (v3.90 or superior) to scan network devices for Ipdiscover