Glpi

What is GLPI?

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration- Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers...). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with mail-notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network-topology.

The principal functionalities of the application are :

1) the precise inventory of all the technical resources. All their characteristics will be stored in a database. 2) management and the history of the maintenance actions and the bound procedures. This application is dynamic and is directly connected to the users who can post requests to the technicians. An interface thus authorizes the latter with if required preventing the service of maintenance and indexing a problem encountered with one of the technical resources to which they have access.

Set up GLPI on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup GLPI on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:

Lighttpd with PHP
Mysql
GLPI

Install lighttpd, PHP and MySql

apk add lighttpd mysql mysql-client php-mysql php-mysqli php php-xml php-json

Configuring Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf

nano +46 /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Uncomment lines:

uncoment    include "mod_fastcgi.conf", save and exit

Starting http service and adding to boot

 /etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default

Configuring MySql

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Create the GLPI database

Note: you can create the database from command line or from the GLPI web page later.

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE glpi;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glpi.* TO "root";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT

Installing GLPI

Install GLPI

Download

cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/
wget http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/misc/glpi-0.72.4.tar

Unpack

tar xvf glpi-0.72.4.tar

Change Folder Persmissions

 chmod -R 777 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/glpi/

Configuring GLPI

Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/glpi and Install GLPI completing the information as appropriate from the web browser.

GLPI Installation steps:

Note: After select each option, pres "Ok" or "Continue" button.

GLPI SETUP

1 - Select your language

2 - Licence

I have read and ACCEPT the terms of the license written above.

3 - Beginning of the installation - Installation or update of GLPI

Choose 'Install' for a completely new installation of GLPI.
Select 'Update' to update your version of GLPI from an earlier version

4 - Checking of the compatibility of your environment with the execution of GLPI

Continue ?

5 - Database connection setup

Mysql server: localhost

Mysql user: root

Mysql password : password

6 - Test of the connection at the database

Database connection successful

Create a new database or use an existing one: glpi

7 - Database created

OK - database was initialized Default values have been entered, feel free to delete them if you want Upon first connection you can use the login glpi and the password glpi in order to access the application with administrator rights

After click on "continue" you will see The installation is finished

Congratulations, you installed GLPI!

You can delete or modify these accounts as well as the first entries in the database. Use GLPI.

You have GLPI system working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/glpi and enjoy!

Licence

Licence:

GLPI is a free software distributed under GNU/GPL version 2 licence.

The GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the following rights (called freedoms):

1. Freedom to run the program, for any desired purpose.

2. Freedom to study how the program works, and modify it. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)

3. Freedom to redistribute copies.

4. Freedom to improve the program, and release the improvements to the public. (Access to the source code is a precondition for this)

GLPI is not a software of the public domain. If you modify GLPI or if you redistribute it, you cannot apply a licence which would contradict GPL licence.

Specified: You are free to use GLPI for any activity which is personal, professional or commercial. Within the framework of a commercial activity, the contract that you associate your provision of services should not interfere with GPL licence attached to GLPI.