Linux

Introduction OCS Inventory is an excellent piece of GPL Software for getting info from hardware components, and software installed on computers running Windows or UNIX-like operating systems (there are also some unofficial clients for running on other platforms). Since New Generation (OCS-NG), a new architecture was implemented: server were contacted using standard TCP/IP connection (Previous versions, used an MDB file to store information, and required a SMB share to inventory computers ), allowing remote computers to connect as well as providing a new web interface for computer administration, and inventory query. ...

General Purpose The idea on writing VPNS and the structure it follows was the problem that we had into easily configure many VPN’s for use with the wireless project interconnection (Valencia Wireless http://www.valenciawireless.org). When having no chance to join networks using just wireless links, we needed to provide some kind of transparent link from one WiFi node to another. To do so, we decided to use the vpnd daemon to establish links between our networks for allowing transparent traffic flow. ...