OCS agent without installing

Question

Hi - Can we copy the ocs inventory agent package on any host, run it without installing it to send just the report to server?

I tried the below command after copying the unix agent,
#./ocsinventory-agent -s http://ocsinvserver.example.com/ocsinventory --basevardir=/var/lib/ocsinventory-agent

and got the below error

Failed to load Ocsinventory::Agent, Can't locate Ocsinventory/Agent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at (eval 1) line 1.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 1.

Any help is greatly appreciable!

Thanks

you can run the agent directly for its source directory with --devlib

Answer 1

Hi,

You have the possibility to generate a standalone unified agent. In tools directory you'll find a shell script named standalone.sh. To build this an internet connection is necessary but not mandatory.

Regards

Frank

Answer 2

I tried ./standalone.sh but it failed:

[user@centos7 tools]$ ./standalone.sh
WARNINGS: Very experimental tool
/usr/bin/pp: Packing ocsinventory-agent
/usr/bin/pp: Writing PAR on ocsinventory-agent.par
Could not get version from /home/pchamorro/Ocsinventory-Unix-Agent-2.4.2/lib/Ocsinventory/Agent/Modules/Snmp/3375.pm by executing:
BEGIN { my $dummy = q#  Hide from _packages_inside()
    #; package Module::Metadata::_version::p2;
    use version;
    no strict;
      $vsub = sub {
        local $VERSION;
        $VERSION=undef;
            my $VERSION=$session->get_request ( -varbindlist => [ $snmp_sysProductVersion] );;
        $VERSION
      };
  }
 

The fatal error was: Can't call method "get_request" on an undefined value at (eval 20) line 9, <GEN205> line 42.

 at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Module/ScanDeps.pm line 530.
/usr/bin/pp: Input file ocsinventory-agent.par was not found
Failed to generate ocsinventory-agent.bin!