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. 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.
Install GLPI on Centos 6 or RHEL6
Let us setup GLPI Asset management system using GLPI on our
centos 6.6. GLPI is web based deployment software, we have to setup a
LAMP server in our centos 6.6. Follow the below link to setup LAMP server on
centos 6
Now we have to create a database for GLPI. To do so, log in
to your MySQL server using command:
# mysql -u root -p
Now create a database called ‘glpidb’ and database user
called ‘glpiuser’ with password ‘redhat’ as described below.
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 190
Server version: 5.5.31-0+wheezy1
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All
rights reserved.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation
and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the
current input statement.
mysql> create
database glpidb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
mysql> grant all on
glpidb.* to glpiuser@localhost identified by 'redhat';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> flush
privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> exit
Bye
Getting GLPI
Download the latest GLPI package
here. Or you can directly
download it from your terminal using command:
# wget
https://forge.indepnet.net/attachments/download/1615/glpi-0.84.3.tar.gz
Extract the tarball using command:
# tar -zxvf
glpi-0.84.3.tar.gz
Move the extracted files to your webserver root document
folder.
# mv glpi/ /var/www/html
Set Read/Write permissions of the following directories.
# chmod -R 777
/var/www/html/glpi/files/
# chmod -R 777
/var/www/html/glpi/config/
Begin Installation
The rest of the installation is web based and pretty easy.
Point your web browser with URL http://ip-address/glpi
or http://domain-name/glpi and
follow the onscreen instructions.
You should see the following screen. Select your language
and click Ok.
Accept the License agreement and click Ok.
If it is a new installation click Install button, else click
Upgrade button to upgrade from old version to most recent new version. I want
to install a fresh version of GLPI, hence i clicked Install button
.
If all seems well, you should see the following screen. If
there are any errors, check for the file permissions and start over the
installation again.
Enter the MySQL credentials such as hostname, user and
password and click Continue.
If you have already created a MySQL database it should have
listed in the next screen as shown below, else you have to create a new one by
clicking on the link Create new database. I have already created a database
called ‘glpidb’, hence i selected it.
Click Continue.
Congratulations! We have installed GLPI on our server
successfully.
The default user accounts and their passwords will be shown
in the above window. However i have listed them below for the sake of clarity.
– glpi/glpi for the administrator account
– tech/tech for the technician account
– normal/normal for the normal account
– post-only/postonly for the postonly account
Please note them. You can change them later.
Click Use GLPI to proceed. Let us log in to GLPI
administrative Dashboard. The administrative user name is glpi and password is
also glpi. Enter them and click Post.
This is how my Administrative dashboard looks.
At the first log in it will show some precautions that be
made before using GLPI further.
First you above to change the default users passwords for
security reasons. To do that. Go to Administration -> Users -> glpi and
input your new password in the password column.
And also you have to remove the install/install.php file for
security reasons.
# rm -fr
/var/www/glpi/install/install.php
If you made any mistakes or just forgot the password for the
administrative account, you can re-run the above setup by deleting the
following config/config.php file.
After completing your installation change the permission of
the config/config_db.php file to avoid any misconfiguration by users.
# chmod 400
/var/www/glpi/config/config_db.php
Now start using GLPI asset management system by navigating
to http://ip-address/glpi.
Usage of GLPI is not that difficult. Just go-through every
menus and explore things. If you still want a help documentation, i suggest you
to read the
Official wiki page.
