OCs on Debian error: Can't call method "do"

Question

Hello,

I've been trying for the last weeks to get OCs-inventory working ona a Debian machine.

I get everything fine but, when I try to execute de agent from computer I get in the apache2 logs the following error:

 Can't call method "do" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Apache/Ocsinventory/Server/System.pm line 177

I have already checked the configuration file for the user and password and I even created the ocs user and password so no change needs to be made.

The Windows agent logs keeps saying:

Service encounter error <OCS Inventory NG Agent encounter an error (exit code is 4 => Failed to talk with Communication Server)>.

I can reach the server, I can execute the install, I even can get to apache because I get the previous error on the logs.. I have no idea why this is not working..

Answer 1

Your server is'nt configure correctly and cannot access to the database. You have to check z-ocsinventory-server.conf (ocsinventory-server.conf on Windows Server), exactly theses few lines

# Master Database settings
  # Replace localhost by hostname or ip of MySQL server for WRITE
  PerlSetEnv OCS_DB_HOST localhost
  # Replace 3306 by port where running MySQL server, generally 3306
  PerlSetEnv OCS_DB_PORT 3306
  # Name of database
  PerlSetEnv OCS_DB_NAME ocsweb
  PerlSetEnv OCS_DB_LOCAL ocsweb
  # User allowed to connect to database
  PerlSetEnv OCS_DB_USER ocs
  # Password for user
  PerlSetVar OCS_DB_PWD ocs

Modify OCS_DB_USER and OCS_DB_PWD with your own account, restart apache, and finaly launch an inventory.