Thie RPM install the OCS Inventory NG client It is configure to generate a local report: /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent/.ocs If you want it to automaticaly and regularly transfer the result to your organization communication server, edit the configuration file: /etc/sysconfig/ocsinventory-agent The hourly "cron" will launch an inventory and send it according to the server configuration (PROLOQ_FREQ) If you want to deploy this client on a important number of computer, you can generate a already configured RPM with rpmbuild -bb \ --define "ocstag tagvalue" \ --define "ocsserver ocsserver.domain.tld:port" \ ocsinventory-agent-.src.rpm Result will be : ocsinventory-agent-..noarch.rpm When using a personalized RPM, the cron is enabled by default.