IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02.

Intro -- IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02 -- Table of Contents -- IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02 -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to IT Inventory and Resource Management -- Inventorying requirements in the real world -- A feasible solution to avoid inevitable havoc -- Streamlining software auditing and license management -- More uses of an integrated IT inventory solution -- Gathering relevant inventory information -- Overall inventory demands to enhance usability -- Centralization: Introducing the client-server model -- Example of the client-server model-an Internet forum -- The client-server model versus the peer-to-peer paradigm -- IT inventorying based on the client-server model -- How does OCS Inventory NG meet our needs? -- Brief overview on OCS Inventory NG's architecture -- Rough performance evaluation of OCS-NG -- Meeting our inventory demands -- Set of functions and what it brings to the table -- Taking a glance at the OCS-NG web interface -- An incentive on functionalities -- Summary -- 2. Setting up an OCS Inventory NG Management Server -- Getting ready for the OCS-NG installation -- Setting up prerequisite software on Linux flavors -- Demystifying package management -- The everlasting dilemma of solving dependency hell -- Getting familiar with your distribution's package manager -- Yum on RPM-based Linux distributions -- APT and Aptitude/Synaptic on Debian and its derivates -- Emerge and Portage, the heart of Gentoo Linux -- Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl on Linux systems -- Installing the AMP stack with yum -- Installing AMP stack with apt.