OCSInventory
OCS inventory is a system that polls information about servers and PCs through an agent.
Installing the server / reporting
apt-get install ocsinventory-reports ocsinventory-server
then go to http://monitor.tripnet.int/ocsreports
finish the questions and it's up and running. It will have no info in it.
Installing the agents
apt-get install ocsinventory-agent
during this proces it will ask for local / http (http if connected) and the server name (monitor.tripnet.int / 192.168.0.10 if it doesn't resolve that). You can change that in /etc/ocsinventory/ocsinventory-agent.cfg
next run
/etc/cron.daily/ocsinventory-agent
and after it's done, you should see it in the reporting server.
Give it a relevant tag.
you can find the server URI to send to in config -> config -> tab Interface
Polling ESXi hosts
you need fusioninventory-agent-task-esx package.
Before running the script,
cd /usr/share/fusioninventory/lib
Or it will give you a perl error then:
fusioninventory-esx --host hostname --user root --password foo --directory /tmp
Creates the .ocs file in /tmp/
You then need to inject it into OCSInventory, which can also be done from the server:
fusioninventory-injector -v -f /tmp/*.ocs --url http://user:pw@monitor.tripnet.int:80/ocsinventory
This may not work if you're polling a later version of ESXi though, because it only supports up to 5.0 http://www.fusioninventory.org/documentation/references/agent-task-esx/2.x/fusioninventory-esx/
should you decide to install by hand
apt-get install libio-compress-perl php-soap libarchive-zip-perl
run the setup.sh from the unzipped archive (which may not be zipped, but only tarred, despite being called .tar.gz). This will also set up the ocsreports file.
among many other perl libraries. I never managed to get the server to install the Apache2::SOAP or SOAP::Transport::HTTP library properly.
When you install the ocsinventory-agent on linux you can see in the logfile if the connection to the server is going well.
send the agent to server=serverip/ocsinventory
you look up life in http://serverip/ocsreports