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
Basic Installation
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index
Install the required packages:
# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf
Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel
# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default
Install Mysql server packages
apk add mysql mysql-client php-mysql php-mysqli
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
Make webapps folder
mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p
Download
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://fossies.org/unix/misc/glpi-0.80.4.tar.gz
Unpack and delete tar file
tar zxvf glpi-0.80.4.tar.gz rm glpi-0.80.4.tar.gz
Change Folder Persmissions
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/glpi/
Make symlinks to GLPI
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/glpi/ /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:
GLPI SETUP
- Select your language
- Licence
- I have read and ACCEPT the terms of the license written above.
- 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
- Checking of the compatibility of your environment with the execution of GLPI
- Continue ?
- Database connection setup
- Mysql server: localhost
- Mysql user: root
- Mysql password : password
- Test of the connection at the database
- Database connection successful
- Create a new database or use an existing one: glpi
- 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!