OCS Inventory NG Team

OCS Inventory NG Team is an open-source collective whose Windows agent quietly turns every PC into a live node of the enterprise network map. Once deployed, the lightweight service inventories hardware specs, installed software, patch levels, BIOS versions, peripheral connections, user profiles and even custom registry keys, then encrypts and forwards the data to a central OCS or GLPI server on a schedule the administrator chooses. The resulting repository becomes the single source of truth for IT asset management, license compliance audits, refresh planning, security baselines and automated help-desk ticketing. Because the agent supports IP discovery, SNMP scanning and local script execution, it can also feed CMDBs, vulnerability scanners and deployment tools such as Wake-on-LAN or FusionInventory without extra agents. Typical use cases range from universities reconciling thousands of roaming laptops to MSPs that need customer-wide software normalization before true-ups, yet the same codebase scales down to a single-site charity that simply wants an Excel-free list of what it owns. Settings are stored in a plain-text ini file, so mass-configuration via GPO, SCCM or Puppet is straightforward, while signed binaries and optional mutual TLS keep the interrogation traffic safe on hostile networks. OCS Inventory NG Agent is offered for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are pulled through trusted Windows package sources like winget, always deliver the newest release, and can be installed in batch alongside other administrative utilities.