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1# OCS Inventory Agent {#module-services-ocsinventory-agent}
2
3[OCS Inventory NG](https://ocsinventory-ng.org/) or Open Computers and Software inventory
4is an application designed to help IT administrator to keep track of the hardware and software
5configurations of computers that are installed on their network.
6
7OCS Inventory collects information about the hardware and software of networked machines
8through the **OCS Inventory Agent** program.
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10This NixOS module enables you to install and configure this agent so that it sends information from your computer to the OCS Inventory server.
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12For more technical information about OCS Inventory Agent, refer to [the Wiki documentation](https://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/03.Basic-documentation/Setting-up-the-UNIX-agent-manually-on-client-computers/).
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14
15## Basic Usage {#module-services-ocsinventory-agent-basic-usage}
16
17A minimal configuration looks like this:
18
19```nix
20{
21 services.ocsinventory-agent = {
22 enable = true;
23 settings = {
24 server = "https://ocsinventory.localhost:8080/ocsinventory";
25 tag = "01234567890123";
26 };
27 };
28}
29```
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31This configuration will periodically run the ocsinventory-agent SystemD service.
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33The OCS Inventory Agent will inventory the computer and then sends the results to the specified OCS Inventory Server.