OCS Inventory NG Pros and Cons

Its capability of managing IT assets like laptop, desktop, serbver, printer, and software inventory in real-time with the help of the OCS Inventory Client, whether on a local network or over the internet at multiple locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The server setup can be a bit tricky, but everything goes smoothly after the client installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OCS NG is a simple agent-based tool for automatic discovery and inventory of IT systems on a company network. It is free of charge, yet much easier to use and more reliable than some paid-for alternatives I have tried. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool itself is pretty basic, and you'll need to pair it with some additional software or write some scripts to make the most of it. The reports are relatively poor, and the UI could do with a refresh or redesign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OCS Inventory is continuously developed by an expert team. You can match it with several ITSM solution. Plugin Engine bring a great flexibility to fit the software to needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a light lack of UX/UI design. But OCS Inventory is made to be efficient and not greedy in terms of ressources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about OCS Inventory is the ease with which the agent uploads to the work machines. Also, how practical it is to create agents for different operating systems in a personalized and unattended manner so that a client does not need to insert configuration parameters, thus facilitating the tasks of the company's Technology team, simply by sending an email to users and requesting them to install the program. Now, the management of doing Deployment with the same tool is quite advantageous. The comprehensive exploration it achieves of every device is vital for when you want to manage good documentation of your organization's technological assets, the granularity with which it reaches each feature of each component is vital for decision-making, saving time and travel. We can even register mobile devices on the platform. Another thing we like about the tool is that you can scan your network and from there start capturing CI for your CMDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it does not have a complete management application from mobile devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does the inventory of practically everything that is connected to your company's network, computers, printers, routers and switches, and the graphic administration is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found anything out of the needs that I handle within the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our core purpose was to audit systems for hardware and software packages. It was easy to install agent on all clients and then got all kind of reporting on installed softwares and hardware details. Agent does not take much system resources as well which is essentials when implementing at enterprise level. Information sync is also fast and smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For any agent base system one needs to plan deployment at enterprise level because installing manually on each system is too much work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.