Ocsinventory Q&A - Recent questions and answers in Administrative console

Answered: Notification for new machine

Wed, 20 May 2026 07:19:43 +0000

I appreciate the thorough discussion regarding SNMPv3 community strings. It might be beneficial to explore additional layers of encryption beyond hashing for enhanced security, especially in sensitive environments. geometry dash

Answered: Recherche multicritères

Thu, 07 May 2026 07:53:51 +0000

This is most likely a software limitation, not a bug.

The “recherche multicritères” feature currently groups results by machine and returns only the first record (the first result per machine Snow Rider ); consequently, you are seeing only one screen/device.

Answered: Error modifying config

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:43:06 +0000

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Add a field "FILE" in administrative data

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:12:34 +0000

Hello,

How to add a field "FILE" in administrative data?

When I add a file, I only get those field types:

TEXT
TEXTAREA
SELECT
CHECKBOX
DATE
RADIOBUTTON
NUMBER

I am sure I was able to add a field in which I could put a file, before in a previous version of OCS.

Thanks a lot,

Frédéric

Systeme

Nom du système : Linux x86_64
Version : 6.12.43+deb13-amd64
RAM totale : 1973 Mo
RAM disponible :777 Mo
CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHz
Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)

Logiciel

Version de PHP : 8.4.11
Serveur Web : Apache/2.4.65 (Debian)
Serveur SQL : MariaDB/Server version 11.8.3-MariaDB-0+deb13u1 from Debian
Version OCSReports: 2.12.3

software categories not affected

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:35:42 +0000

I've create many categories

in all software list the categories a not affected to the software

I've run the php script (cron_all_software.php) and no changes
some software are not avalaible in the list to be add to the category list

How can I fix this ?

how to reset all the software inventory if necessary?

Answered: "ACCESS DENIED" During creation of a new layout

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:47:18 +0000

Hello,

I have the same problem. using sadmin profile, everything enabled, still have an "access denied on "/ocsreports/index.php?function=layouts"

Answered: Packages not created. Not able to Activate it.

Tue, 20 May 2025 12:59:11 +0000

Same as Deploy stops creating packages - Ocsinventory Q&A

Answered: How to get custom reports on computers ?

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:25:09 +0000

What about this?

https://ask.ocsinventory-ng.org/15316/how-to-dl-data-collected-from-all-computers

Merging the itmanagement-notes with duplicates?

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:45:19 +0000

Situation:

I have a computer with several "Notes" attached in its administrative data. Suddenly (or not so) the duplicate of this computer appeared. I merged these duplicates and the notes from older computer will be lost with the old data. Notes attached to newer computer will remain.

The only way to save old notes I found, is to change the hardware_id of old notes to the hwid of newer duplicate.

Admin data TEXTAREA vs TEXT

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:11:45 +0000

Before 2.5 there were two types of the texts in administrative data: TEXTAREA (multi-line) and TEXT (single line).

These types remains in 2.12, but since 2.5 the textarea displayed as text.

For example: (real code taken from my inventory). FIEILDS_41 declared as TEXTAREA.
but I see it as single line text

<input type="text" name="fields_41" id="fields_41" value="" class="form-control">

When I changed the HTML (using Chrome built-in devtools) to:

<textarea name="fields_41" id="fields_41" rows="5" cols="40"></textarea>

I saw what I want: multiline text area. What and where should be corrected in php's to show the textarea as TEXT AREA, not as single line text?

Answered: Password: which characters are allowed?

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:03:00 +0000

Hi

The field "passwd" of the operators table is varchar(255). So a password with 32 characters could be used.

Do you have errors in apache error log file ? Do you have errors in mysql log file ?

Best regards

Frank

déploiement zip avec script + .msi

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:18:56 +0000

Bonjour,

Après avoir effectué quelques recherches sur internet je n'ai pas trouvé réponse à ma question.

Sinon je suis désolé mon anglais est très mauvais.

Je voudrais savoir comment fait-on pour déployer un package comportant dans un zip à la fois un script powershell et le fichier .msi avec lequel le script exécutera ses commandes ?

Je vous remercie pour toute aide apporté.

Answered: inventaire "logiciels" vide

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:28:34 +0000

Sujet vu, revu et multi-revu : crontab

Prenez vous en charge : commencez par chercher !

Answered: No new records since September 13

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:13:10 +0000

Hi

Do you get errors in apache error log file, activity.log file ?

Set OCS_OPT_DBI_PRINT_ERROR to 1 in ocsinventory-server.conf file and restart apache. Next see if you get errors in apache error log file.

Regards

Answered: multi criteria search - deplyoment

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:43:45 +0000

Thanks.. this works .. Old OCS-Inventory 2.05 way was easier .. but i think this helps me a lot.

Thanks jacquesh

Answered: Mise en place de CVE Search

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:52:18 +0000

Bonjour et merci pour vos réponses,
j'ai donc installé mon serveur local CVE en utilisant la documentation officielle et cela fonctionne très bien.

Bonne journée

Where is the column Type on All computers page?

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:35:34 +0000

Why the column "Type" isn't showing on the Show/Hide option on "All computers" page?

Is there any way to enable it?

Answered: déploiement de fichier l'attribut 'caché"

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:47:28 +0000

Bonjour @daviddp4,

il me semble avoir vu une demande similaire il y a quelques mois... Faites une recherche sur le Ask ainsi que dans le dépôt Github du projet (issue...) et vous devriez trouver une réponse.

Bon courage

Answered: What are the values quality and loyalty?

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:38:23 +0000

Please start with a search and RTFM

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ocsinventory+quality+loyalty

or https://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/06.Network-Discovery-with-OCS-Inventory-NG/Using-IP-discovery-feature/

Why it's me who do the search on Internet ?

Answered: Status of a massive package deploy?

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:00:13 +0000

Are you sure ?

In Deployement > Activate, you could find an icon for stats for package !

You have reach this page for activating package, it look well design to have also stats !

How to use cron_ipdiscover.php ?

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:37:18 +0000

I wanted to know more about the cron_ipdiscover.php script.

This script does the same as the command "perl ipdiscover-util.pl -network=192.168.1.0/24 -scantype=ping" ?

I manually ran "/usr/bin/php cron_ipdiscover.php" but didn't notice any difference.

The link below is unavailable:

https://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/03.Basic-documentation/06.Network-Discovery-with-Ocs-Inventory-NG/Using-IP-discovery-feature.md

Can I help you?

Answered: Error collecting data on VMs

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:54:54 +0000

I still can't see memory information in a test environment that uses Virtualbox.

I'm using the OCS Inventory agent on real machines. From these machines it is possible to collect memory data.

Cannot Install Plugin In Linux, Deployment Build

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:32:17 +0000

Hi,

I'm getting an error when trying to Build a packages in Linux using "Install plugin" option, after validating I got blank screen, and apache log show an error.

Server operating system: Ubuntu
OCS Inventory NG server version and patch level: 2.12.0
Apache server error.log file: located under “/var/log/httpd/*error.log”.
OCS Inventory NG Server log file, located under “/var/log/ocsinventory-NG/ocsinventory-NG.log” under Linux. I DON'T HAVE THIS LOG FILE, Where can I find it?

Apache logs file:

[Tue Sep 05 16:43:05.406001 2023] [php:notice] [pid 2395367] [client IP:65278] error when tar gz file, referer: http://ocs.server.org/

[Tue Sep 05 16:43:05.412152 2023] [php:warn] [pid 2395367] [client IP:65278] PHP Warning: md5_file(/tmp/phpoHfxMq.tar.gz): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php on line 146, referer: http://ocs.server.org/

[Tue Sep 05 16:43:05.415395 2023] [php:warn] [pid 2395367] [client IP:65278] PHP Warning: fopen(/tmp/phpoHfxMq.tar.gz): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php on line 350, referer: http://ocs.server.org/

[Tue Sep 05 16:43:05.418205 2023] [php:error] [pid 2395367] [client IP:65278] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: fread(): Argument #1 ($stream) must be of type resource, bool given in /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php:361\n

Stack trace:\n

#0 /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php(361): fread()\n

#1 /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php(148): PackageBuilder->fragmentPackage()\n

#2 /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/plugins/main_sections/ms_teledeploy/ms_tele_build.php(50): PackageBuilder->buildPackage()\n

#3 /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/header.php(434): require('...')\n

#4 /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/index.php(44): require('...')\n

#5 {main}\n

thrown in /ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/require/teledeploy/PackageBuilder.php on line 361, referer: http://ocs.server.org/

Answered: générer des rapport automatique

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:43:41 +0000

Hi,

my company has developed more than 60 exclusive plugins for OCS (predictive maintenance, advanced Bios informations, supervision, helpdesk & IT support, status summary, multiple SNMP device type, geolocation of Windows machines, etc.)

If you want more information, please contact me privately.

Best regards, Stephane

Answered: inventaire station d'accueil manquant, normal ?

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:42:06 +0000

Answered: If wrong delete, how to restore that?

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:33:07 +0000

The main problem is not to delete a user : it's easy to recreate a user ... from a specific profile !

The main difficulties is to delete a profile !

Answered: After update from 2.8 to 2.11.1 no package build

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:11:54 +0000

Hi frankb,

because we could not wait, we restored a backup from before the upgrades and setup a fresh install. Fresh install seems to work. Thanks.

Answered: Superadmin navigation is very slow

Wed, 31 May 2023 13:57:27 +0000

Hello,

I find the solution !

It's a bug with the option "See warning messages on the GUI".

Steps :

- Remember to create a new user and a new profile (you can duplicate the sadmin profile in sadmin2)

For security, do not modify the default sadmin profile!!!!

- Then modify the sadmin2 profile and uncheck the "See warning messages on the GUI" option.

- Then assign your user to the sadmin2 profile.

Enjoy ;)

The same IP addr. apear in Inv. and Non-inv. col.

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:57:40 +0000

After scanning subnets, some - the same IP addresses apear in Inventoried and Non-inventoried column at once.

Answered: Matching regexes dictionnary, Cve Inventory

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:21:30 +0000

hi,

I'm afraid you'll have to create your list yourself, there are a lot of inquiries regarding CVE but sadly few positive responses.

Answered: How to use the new Notification feature? Help

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:28:24 +0000

Hi,

don't forget to run the file :

/usr/share/ocsinventory-reports/ocsreports/tools/cron_mailer.php

every minute, with a crontab for example...

Answered: remove duplicate computers automatically

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:21:56 +0000

Hi @Marcotorres,

to my knowledge, no... Besides, according to which criterion(ies) ?

Tedious...

Answered: How does the asset inventory purging system work?

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:49:30 +0000

Hi,

There is not auto-purge. You have to delete manually all assets.

Best regards.

Utilisation des recherches sauvegardées

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:24:27 +0000

Bonjour,

J'ai créé des recherches avec un compte super administrateur (sadmin) et je ne peux pas les utiliser avec les comptes administrateur (admin). J'ai une erreur de connexion "Acces denied" alors que le compte de type admin est autoriser aux recherches enregistrées : serveur OCS 2.11.1 installé avec les paramétrages par défaut coté profils utilisateurs.

Merci de votre aide.

Bertrand

Answered: OCS Server with docker errors

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:23:10 +0000

You choose what you want to do, and you choose what you can/could assume.

I recommend use of standard Linux distribution over Docker. But you assume your choice, as I assume my own choice.

Please note, OCS server need a 'robust' server for a long usage : the best is a dedicated server or a dedicated VM server ...IM(NS)HO, it's more efficient and stable than WSL over Windows (Server) ...

Answered: Operating systems chart on the dashboard.

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:13:04 +0000

No list OS systems is problem with unix clients. Dissapear if you delete unix machines :)
But after remove unix computers, this graph is here until unix agents send data again..

I got same problem..

Answered: "All Software" not filling up (Docker / V2.11)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:28:24 +0000

Hi Andre,

thanks for info.

Sorry for have wrote down the wrong cron job. I mean the cron jon "cron_all_software.php" (like I referenced in the title)

The job "cron_all_software.php" is also not configured to run in the docker version, although everyone needs this job - I think.

Why? And how is the prefered way to run the cron job (from inside the docker container or from the docker host)

Greetings

Eugen

How to exclude archived computers from queries

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:38:33 +0000

Hello,
I am looking for software versions with security vulnerabilities.
By default the result also gives me the archived servers.
I can add a clause indicating inventory date less than 10 days.
But is there a solution to systematically exclude them from the results ?
Thanks
Selfi

Answered: Software search does not return values

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:21:55 +0000

I think your situation is not similar at LDC_Services installation (I know very well LDC).

The table 'software' :

This table replace the previous table 'softwares' since OCS 2.8 : the fields 'name', 'publisher', 'version' are now link to others tables 'software_name', '..._publisher', '...._version'.

The field 'ID' of the table 'software' :

The field is an autoincrement for unicity key : the type could be 'int' (up to 2^31-1=2147483647) or 'bigint' (up to 2^63-1=9223372036854775807) : for large installation (as LDC) it's suitable 'bigint'

Starting from OCS 2.9.1 for new server, the type 'ID' is 'bigint'.

When upgrading server, the table is created by 7035.sql and 'ID' is a 'int' field, and the script 7053.sql change type to 'bigint'. (Curiously the script is available from 2.9.2)

For large installation (after 2.8), you coud change yourself the type of 'ID' to 'bigint' inspirate with script 7053 (I strongly suggest to stop Apache before ...).

ALTER TABLE software MODIFY COLUMN ID BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
ALTER TABLE software_link MODIFY COLUMN ID BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;
ALTER TABLE software_categories_link MODIFY COLUMN ID BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

Please note if you reach the limit (of 'int'), all inventories failed, when you change the type, new inventories are OK.

Your problem :

I've created a new server with OCS 2.10 : only the server (Debian 11) is inventoried.

If I go to Inventory > All software, I see nothing (as you) : it's probably a bug for 2.10.

But I can search using Inventory > Search with various criteria, I select 'All software' and 'Name', then I could search with Like : it's not as direct than with 'All software' but it's give the list of computers having one software,

I understand, due the bug, you don't have the list of all software as previous versions : I suggest you wait for 2.10.1.

IpDiscovery don't show a list of networks

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:14:30 +0000

After server update to 2.10.0

OCS Inventory is in Docker. After the update, all the information remained in place, except for the list of networks (there were a lot of them). Only those networks remained, on which "Force IpDiscover" was manually enabled

If you manually add a network from one of the devices and name it, data from this network will immediately appear in the list of IpDiscovery networks.

That is, the information is there, but it is not shown.

Please tell me how to enable the display of all networks.

on ocsreports several menu items disappeared

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:59:48 +0000

Hello,

I'm new to ocs and am quite impressed of the software, so THANKs to all the developers!

I've installed the server from the deb-packages on a freshly installed ubuntu 22.04 and could register one client.

While trying to deploy a software packege, I run in to the following problem:

When I tryed to build a deployment package fro a msi file, everything seemed to work fine, but the package never showed up in for activation.
Somewhere I read, that for SW-deployment, the server had to have a working ssl-configuration. So I installed generated certificates and instelled them to apache, which worked fine so far.

My problem is, that after I installed the ssl-site, in the admin console (ocsreports) several Menu items disappeared. The whole configuration-Menu doesn't show up anymore, and on the deployment-Menu I just have the activate option.

Any suggestions on what is goinig on?

Best regards

Andreas Fromm

Answered: Centralize status bitlocker

Tue, 17 May 2022 09:20:11 +0000

bitlockerstatus

Retrieve status of bitlocker Windows volumes

https://github.com/PluginsOCSInventory-NG/bitlockerstatus

the console crashes

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:33:04 +0000

Hello I have installed since the beginning in two different virtual machines one in VMware and another in Hyperv, in the installation does not give me any error, when I want to enter the console I stay here:

the versions I have are:

Ubuntu 21.10

Apache 2.4.48

PHP 8.0.8

What can I do?

Thanks a lot

RO access and not show all computers

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:06:57 +0000

Hello, 
Is it possible to give read-only access to the web interface? 
And showing only computers that have a certain tag?
Thanks!

why network menu doesn't appear

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:39:48 +0000

Hi dears. I installed OCS Inventory in Ubuntu Server 20, i trying to configure ip discover and install windows agent in a machine, but does not communicate and the menu network is not appear.

I configured networks in network scan, but i dont now if is correct..

Please, help me, tankyou and best regards.

Upload one or more files to a single computer

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:17:22 +0000

Hello,

we are using OCS, and it's really good. We love it.

SPECS:

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, PHP 7.4.3, running through Apache2

OCS v2.9.2

What we need is the possibility to upload some PDF/Doc to each computer (i.e. computer warranty, invoice... and something like this.)

If this possibility is already included, how can I enable this feature?

Utilsation en superadmin super lente

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 08:19:47 +0000

Bonjour,

Lorsque j'utilise OCS Inventory 2.90 avec le compte admin, chaque action est super lente.

Idem, problème de lenteur si je crée un autre utilisateur (qu'admin) en superadmin.

Sous un utilsateur Lambda en admin, les temps sont correctes.
Une idée du probléme ?

Merci

Software not filling up in 'My Dashboard'

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:50:48 +0000

Hey

I have OCS 2.9.1 running, recently discovered and installed. When I was troubleshooting a different issue, I noticed that my software category is left empty.

Is there something I need to add manually or why is this not filling itself up with data?

I created a 'default category' along with some others, but that doesn't seem to change anything.

Report for specific software inventory

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:43:23 +0000

Hello all,

We're using OCS for ou assets inventory. When we have to replace a computer we're using it in order to export/view software list and find which sotware need to be reinstalled. But I'm searching for a simple report or sql query where I can directly have for a dedicated device (where device name is a variable) the software list with some exclusions (like all Microsoft update, all constructors software, etc.). I just want to see software that need to be installed (Collaboration tools, 7-Zip, Adobe, Autocad, etc.).

Do you know if it's possible ?

Tks in advance.

Romain

LDAP sadmin user not able to save query - OCS2.9.2

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:28:35 +0000

I have CentOS 8 and OCS 2.9.2 installed via RPM. I have configured OCS 2.9.2 for LDAP authentication. LDAP users are assigned the sadmin profile. Everything seems to work OK, but the save search function is broken. LDAP user can save the search query but the saved searches doesnt show up.

If I login as local admin user I can see the saved search queries, but LDAP sadmin users cant.

I have another VM running CentOS 8 and OCS2.9.1 and the save search function works in there, so something broke in 2.9.2 maybe? Please check.