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Posted OCS Inventory NG guide

Here’s a new guide for CentOS/RHEL lovers.
OCS Inventory NG is a client/server program with a web based management end used to inventory computer equipment. This guide assumes version 1.01 and also has a section demonstrating importing the OCS data into GLPI.
http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/how-tos/ocs-inventory-ng-on-centos
Enjoy. As usual, feel free to correct me or point out anything that needs added.

Working with GLPI and OCS Inventory

I played with OCS Inventory a few years ago, but it wasn’t very mature when I last touched it, so I kind of abandoned using it around the office. I was made known, however, on the CentOS mailing list that it integrates into GLPI’s tracking software. It’s now able to pull over the database of [...]

rsnapshot backups guide

I haven’t written anything, or even updated any of the guides for that matter, in awhile but I setup rsnapshot for my new laptop last night. Since I’ve never used rsnapshot before, except minimal exposure at work, I typed up a guide to installation and use on CentOS/Fedora/RHEL OS systems. My example of the rsync [...]

Added RHEL diskless client guide

My boss gave me a neat project to work on this week, diskless clients. We had a hard drive fail in a machine, and instead of replacing, it was decided that we wanted to do a few diskless clients. As always, when I do something new I usually write it up so I can remember [...]

Updated Nagios guide for CentOS 5

I’ve been going through verifying the Nagios guide works for both CentOS 4 and 5 releases the past few evenings, since the CentOS guys rolled out release 5. I finished it tonight, and things haven’t really changed much, which made it nice to go over. As always, please point out any mistakes and/or changes anyone [...]