OCS Inventory NG Agent

OCS Inventory NG Agent is a practical and effective solution especially designed for users who need to inventory their IT assets effortlessly. Since you can run it as a Windows service automatically at PC startup or as a standalone application through a login script or a shortcut in the Start menu, the program makes the inventory of computer hardware more efficiently.

Working with this program you are able to collect data about the hardware and software machines running the OCS client program, entitled ‘OCS Inventory Agent’.

Open Computer and Software (shortly known as OCS) is a reliable software that helps you to visualize the inventory through a web interface with ease.

In case you want to install the program as a Windows service so you can get the computer inventories, although nobody is logged in, you surely know that OCS Inventory NG Agent will automatically communicate with the OCS-NG system and perform the proper inventories based on the parameters set on the server.

It will retrieve all the available properties, then send them using HTTP or HTTPS protocols. The agent scans the IP subnet mask so it can identify all the active devices, then send all the data to the server.

The standalone version is used when computers are not able to communicate with the server, due to some incompatibilities, or the service version is not allowed. On this manner, you are able to deploy new agents through OCS deployment feature, create a new policy or simply edit an existing one and validate each window in order to activate the Computer Startup Script: Group Policy. However, when you use the standalone version, you must be aware that the deployment process of package might take a long time when users are logged in.

Considering all of the above, OCS Inventory NG Agent is a technical management solution of IT assets that help you to collect full-detailed information about hardware and software programs available in different computers.