I am working further into my GLPI install now that I have some other major projects behind me. I have OCS Inventory plugged into it working excellent, but now I am at the point of trying to get LDAP authentication to our AD DC working. I have tried every method out there i have seen posted, and I can get it to connect to the AD server, but it pulls no accounts across. It may be I need to be more specific in the root DN as we have multiple OU's for multiple locations an Idea of out AD is Domain >Company OU >Users and Groups >Dallas Domain >Company OU >Users and Groups >Houston Domain >Company OU >Users and Groups >IT I stop at the company OU, but I am not sure If anyone has experience with Setting up GLPI for LDAP I would appreciate any help. I'm running GLPi on a win 2003 server using xamp.

Begin by gathering all your downloaded packages into a folder on your server, I put them in My Documents for my login account on the server. Extract your OCSNG-Windows-Server-Setup ZIP file in the same directory. Open AD and create your LDAP user as per your. Jun 27, 2011 I'm running GLPi on a win 2003 server using xamp. Just go this working yesterday with this help: http://www.glpi-project.org/wiki/doku.php?id=en.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Administration of OCS Inventory NG. Adminstrative Console: Point your browser to and login with username “admin”, and password “admin”. Warning: You must change the default password or better, add a new administrative user and remove the default 'admin' user. Note: All these features are only available to OCS Inventory NG administrators. Managing OCS Inventory NG Administration server users. Click on the toolbar Users menu to display all configured OCS Inventory NG Administration server users. Error creating thumbnail: File missing You can add new users by entering their name, password (user will be able to change it when logged in), and selecting their type.

You can choose between: • Super Administrators: user has the ability to configure all parameters of the product. Look like root.

• Local Administrators: user has the ability to configure all parameters of the product authorized by the super administrator or administrator. • Teledeploy requesters: user has the ability to make a deployment request. • Administrators: user has the ability to configure all parameters of the product authorized by the super administrator. • User: user can only query the database and view results of inventory. It just has the top left Combo-box of menu toolbar to run general queries. You can create new types as you want, with Add a new user tab.

To delete a user, just click on red cross at the end of the corresponding line. Rat Pedal Serial Number. Managing OCS Inventory NG general options. Access to main configuration page Click on the toolbar Config menu to display all general options. Note: If you encounter error while uploading agent, refer to common errors § 11.2.3 PHP Requested content-length. Using Registry Query feature. OCS Inventory NG agent for Windows is able to query the registry of inventoried computers for a value of a key or for all values of a key under registry hives HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (and HKEY_DYN_DATA for Windows 9X based computers).

Enable query registry feature You have to enable this feature in the general settings REGISTRY. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Create a new registry request Warning: Since OCS Inventory NG 2.0, you do not have to double backslash in the path of the hive. Click Add button to add a new query. Enter a name for this query, for example PDFCreator Version if you want to retrieve version number, select the registry hive (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in this example), enter the registry key (SOFTWARE PDFCreator program) and the value name to query (ApplicationVersion) and validate. Note: Put star (*) in field “Name of the key” to get all values of the key (This is useful to get all values of key “HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Run” to know which process are automatically started for example). Error creating thumbnail: File missing After that, each time a Windows client will make an inventory, it will retrieve and store all the values corresponding to these keys. Managing duplicates computers.

OCS Inventory NG is able to detect a renamed computer, reinstalled computer Generally, it will handle that alone. But sometimes, it is impossible for the server to know whether two computers are the same or not, for example when it has no network adapter (no Mac address) or when the serial number was not properly set by the constructor (If you change a computer’s name, the application won’t be able to recognize it if it has no serial or no Mac address, and thus a duplicate fake computer may be created). This page accessible by clicking Duplicates toolbar menu is used to solve this problem.

Error creating thumbnail: File missing You may choose the kind of comparison you want in the top right combo-box. • Redundancy summary – Shows the number of redundant computers detected with each comparison method.

• “Hostname + Serial number”, “Hostname + Mac address”, “Mac address + Serial number” - These are the two criteria comparison methods, the more reliable. It returns all computers that have two criteria in common. • “Hostname only”, “Serial only”, “Mac address only” - These are the one criterion comparison methods; it only shows all computers that shares one parameter.

Once computers are shown, it’s up to you to check whether several computers are redundant or not. Error creating thumbnail: File missing After that, you only have to select (checkbox) computers that look the same, and click “merge redundant computers”: all the data from checked computers will be merged. The administrative data of the oldest computer are kept on the merged device.

Note: When those filters are applied, some values are filtered out (For example: 'NNNNNNN' or 'xxxxxxxxxxx' for serial number). Editing administrative information. OCS Inventory NG allows you to store custom information for each inventoried computers. For example, you can add administrative information to specify the owner of the computer, or the location of the computer. This administrative information is stored both on the server and on the client to avoid any loss of data.

For example, if the database is lost, all clients will come back with their administrative information. You can define the administrative information you want for each computer by clicking Admininfo toolbar menu. Error creating thumbnail: File missing You can add new administrative information definition by entering their name (space or special characters are not allowed) and selecting their type. You can choose type between: • Text • Textarea • Select • Show this fied • Checkbox • Blob • Radiobutton • Date To delete an administrative information definition, just click on red cross at the end of the corresponding line. For example, we will add administrative information corresponding to the buy date of computer. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Importing inventory for non network connected computers. With Administration server through your web browser For non network connected computers, you can import inventory results from a file created on the computer by the agent run in local mode (see § 3.2 We have chosen to package OCS inventory NG server for Windows as an integrated package containing all required components.

As is, the 3 main components of Management server (database server, web communication server and web administration server) are installed on the same computer.). We assume that you’re able to save this file in your hard disk from your mailbox, or any other way. Note: If Communication Server is not running on standard HTTP port 80, or on the same computer as Administration console, you must update General Options. See § 6.2 Managing OCS Inventory NG general options. Click Local import toolbar menu, browse your hard drive to select the '.ocs' file or '.xml' file created by agent release and click [ Send ] button.

Error creating thumbnail: File missing With Communication server through a Perl script Communication server provides the ability to import inventory from a file created on the computer. This file has “.ocs” extension. We assume that administrator can get the file from somewhere, his mailbox, a USB drive or any other place. Go to the directory where you’ve installed Communication server, “/usr/local/ocsinventory-NG” for us, and run the script “Ocsinventory_local.pl” with path to file which contains inventory results as argument. Note: With OCSInventory NG Server for Windows, import script “local_import.bat” is located in “INSTALLDIR binutils” directory, where “INSTALLDIR” is the installation folder selected during server setup. This will import inventory results into the database.

[root@l16753101aao ocsinventory-NG]# Ocsinventory_local.pl ST32491DL-2005-06-23-10-04-02.ocs OK for ST32491DL-2005-06-23-10-04-02.ocs --------------------------- Successly inventoried: 1' Errors: 0:-) If you have multiple files to import, you can put them in a directory and them launch the script “Ocsinventory_local.pl” without argument, but within the directory where resides files to import. [root@l16753101aao home]# Ocsinventory_local.pl OK for ST32491DL-2005-06-23-10-04-02.ocs' --------------------------- Successly inventoried: 1 Errors: 0:-) Using software dictionary for GLPI integration. Software dictionary is used to categorize detected software. This feature is very useful when you use OCS Inventory NG combined with GLPI. As is, you can group software in a category and GLPI will import them with the name of category. For example, you have many version of Microsoft Office (97, 2000, XP, 2003), but you don’t care about version. You just want to manage total number of MS Office.

You can create a category “Microsoft Office” and insert in this category all version of MS Office. Glitchy`s Model Editing Suite. In GLPI, you will only see “Microsoft Office”.

Software dictionary acts as a rename or group utility for GLPI. Click Dictionary toolbar menu. There are 3 categories by default: • NEW: include all new or not yet categorized software. • IGNORED: you can put in this category all software you don’t want to import in GLPI. • UNCHANGED: you can put in this category all software you don’t want to “rename” in GLPI. These software will be imported as is.