DESCRIPTION

  Ocsinventory-Agent is an agent for ocsinventory NG. It supports Linux,
  Solaris and AIX. *BSD support is in progress. A port to non UNIX system
  is also possible (e.g: Win32).

PREREQUISITES

  Perl 5.8.
  The following modules are needed:
    Digest::MD5

    XML::Simple

    Net::IP: optional, it is only needed to compute the network information

    LWP

    dmidecode on Linux and *BSD (i386, amd64, ia64) dmidecode is required to read the BIOS stats.

    lspci on Linux and *BSD (pciutils package) is required to list PCI devices.

    Mac::SysProfile 0.0.3 is need on MacOSX to collect the device informations.

    sneep on Solaris/sparc, you must install sneep and record the Serial Number with it :
                  (download it from http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4304155a)

 
  The following modules are optional:

    Proc::Daemon Daemon mode

    Proc::PID::File brings the pid file support if Proc::Daemon is installed

    ipmitool if you want to collect information about IPMI

    Compress::Zlib needed for OCS server prior 1.02

    To get the serial number of the screen you will need one of these tools:
      - monitor-edid from Mandriva is needed to fetch the monitor. A package is available
        in Fedora repository.
        information http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/monitor-edid
      - get-edid from the read-edid package

    If available, Net::CUPS is used to detect the printer


  The following module is needed if you plan to prepare a tarball or install
  directly from the Bazaar devel branch. (See SOURCES below.):

    Module::Install (Ubuntu package libmodule-install-perl). 

BUILDING/INSTALLING

  Once the archive is unpacked, use these commands:

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make install

  You can also run the agent from the tarball directory.

  The agent needs some directories to store internal settings.

   mkdir -p /etc/ocsinventory-agent
   mkdir -p /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent
   mkdir -p /var/log/ocsinventory-agent
   mkdir -p /var/run

  you can choose other directories by changing the default settings
  directly in the ocsinventory-agent file.

  You need to launch the agent with root privilege. For debugging you can
  try to launch it with the -l flag:
  eg: ocsinventory-agent -l /tmp --debug

  It's also possible to run directly from the tarball directory:

   sudo ./ocsinventory-agent --devlib --server http://foo/ocsinventory

PATCHES
  If you want to improve OCS Inventory, please use the Bazaar branch
  directly, publish you changes and ask for the merge
  http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php/Developers:Bazaar

  The source of the agent can be download with this command:

  bzr branch lp:ocsinventory-unix-agent

  /!\ You may need bzr-loom plugin to retrieve the branch /!\ 


NOTE
 
 Solaris:
  Sun Studio seems to be needed to build the dependency.
  The generated Makefile needs gmake to be exectuted
  The default installation will install the binary in /usr/perl5/5.XXXXX/bin,
  set you $PATH variable according to that.

 Crontab:
  If you use the crontab to launch the agent you'll probably have to redefine
  the PATH. For example, just add something like:
  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
  At the begining of the cron file.


SOURCES
You can prepare a tarball from the Bazaar devel branch with following commands:
   bzr branch lp:ocsinventory-unix-agent
   cd ocsinventory-unix-agent 
   perl Makefile.PL
   make manifest
   make dist


COPYRIGHT

  Copyright © 2006-2009 OCS Inventory Contributor
  released under GNU GPL 2 license
  
AUTHORS
  See AUTHORS file.

The memconf script is maintained by Tom Schmidt
http://myweb.cableone.net/4schmidts/memconf.html
Copyright © 1996-2009 Tom Schmidt

memconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

Ocsinventory::Agent::Backend::Virtualization::Vmsystem uses code from
imvirt:

   Authors:
     Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
   
   Copyright Holder:
     2008 (C) IBH IT-Service GmbH [http://www.ibh.de/]
   
   License:
     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
     (at your option) any later version.
   
     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     GNU General Public License for more details.
   
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
     USA