Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network. OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active devices on your network, such as switch, router, network printer and unattended devices. OCS Inventory NG includes package deployment feature on client computers. ocsinventory is a meta-package that will install the communication server, the administration console and the database server .