OCS Inventory NG server 2.5 on Ubuntu 18.04.1

Question

I have found guide about installing 2.4 on Ubuntu 16.04, but I was looking for any latest guide on installing 2.5 on Ubuntu server 18.04.1. Ubuntu server 18.04.1 is the latest server build, and OCS 2.5 is also the latest.

I believe the installation will be almost similar, but I want to make sure that I am installing all latest components as part of OCS server requirement.

• MySQL Server – version 4.1 or higher
• Perl
• Apache Web server
• Apache Mod_perl
• PHP with ZIP support enabled.
• Apache Mod_php
• Perl module XML::Simple
• Perl module Compress::Zlib
• Perl module DBI
• Perl module DBD::Mysql
• Perl module Apache::DBI
• Perl module Net::IP
• Perl module Archive::Zip
• Perl module Apache2:SOAP
• Perl module SOAP::Lite
• Perl module XML::Entities

I found one guide in here which seems the latest

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-ocs-inventory-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/

The other one is in here http://ask.ocsinventory-ng.org/8583/tutorial-ocs-2-4-on-ubuntu-16-04

Can I use the first one and install all required components?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Has anyone gotten this working with Server 2.5 on 18.04.1 (also MariaDB 10.3) ?  No matter what I do, the agents only check in using the 'ocs' account.  I get the following error:

OCS-NG_WINDOWS_AGENT_v2.3.1.1;database_connect;Access denied for user 'ocs'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

These files have the correct credentials and using a different database username (NOT ocs)...

/usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/dbconfig.inc.php

/etc/apache2/conf-available/z-ocsinventory-server.conf

/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/z-ocsinventory-server.conf

Where else would it be getting that ocs account from?  I modified the setup.sh to use a different account from ocs as well for the install.  Thanks.

Also... this is the script used to install....

https://github.com/jeremylarose/server_install_scripts/blob/master/OCSInventory2.5_Ubuntu18.04_MariaDB10.3_Install.sh

Answer 2

OK the script is now working for automated installation at ...
https://github.com/jeremylarose/server_install_scripts/blob/master/OCSInventory2.5_Ubuntu18.04_MariaDB10.3_Install.sh

needed to modify the zz-ocsinventory-restapi.conf file