OCS Inventory Service - Green IT

Service GreenIT

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Description

Currently supported on Windows, this service is made to gather power consumption information.

IMPORTANT NOTE : This service is required if you use GreenIT Plugin downloadable here

Prerequisites

NOTE : Every agents which have the service installed can return GreenIT data.

• Windows 10

Installation

To install the service on your agents :

• Download the service here to get the executable and start it.

• Go to the config page :

• Configuration :

  • The period between collecting information is a time in seconds that will allow the service to start colecting information.

    Example : if you put it to 5, it will collect information every 5 seconds.

  • The period between upload is a time in minutes that will allow the service to write information collected into the data file (C:\ProgramData\GreenIT\data.json)

    Example : if you put it to 5, it will write information into data file every 5 minutes. If you put it to 0, it will write information in data file each data collect.

    NOTE : "C:\ProgramData" is an unvisible folder.

  • The period between saves is a time in hours that will allow the service to create a ".bak" file next to data file to don't lose your last data.

    Example : if you put it to 5, it will create/update the backup file every 5 hours.

• Click on install and don't forget to check "Run GreenIT Service 1.0" at the end.

IMPORTANT NOTE : It is important to check "Run GreenIT Service 1.0" to install the software as a Windows service !

• If you haven't checked the box, you can install it manually after the install of the software :
  • Open a terminal and go in the software installation folder path.
  • Run the command .\GreenIT.exe install and wait until the plugin is installed.

And yes, that's all :-)

For developers

All the documentation for developers can be found here