This tutorial is dedicated to GLPI 11 and to the automatic inventory Using GLPI Agent, I will explain how to separate the inventory of servers and computers.
GLPI 11 introduced asset creation, which allows you to create objects in the Park section by enabling capabilities such as Inventory. By creating a Servers asset and configuring the appropriate features, you can change the type of elements in the Park section using the tag and indicate that it is a server element.
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Creating the asset for the servers
To begin, we will create the Servers asset in GLPI 11 which will allow us to separate the Computers / Servers inventory.
Open the Configuration menu 1 and then click on Asset definitions 2.
We arrive at the list of configured Assets which is empty at the moment, click on the Add 1 button.
Enter the label 1, the System name 2, select Yes 3 on the Active field, define an icon if you wish and click on the Add button 4.
Once the asset is created, you are redirected to its configuration; click on Capacities 1.
To begin, click on Select / deselect all 1 then adjust the features 2, as you can see I have unchecked Remote Control, Project and Booking, then click on the Save button 3.
On the Fields tab 1, you have the option to add additional fields if necessary; for example, you could add a Backup field to indicate the backup policy applied to this server.
Next, in the Profiles section 1, you must configure the permissions according to the profile 2, if you want the Servers to be associated with tickets, configure who can select a server 3 and finally click on Save 4.
The Server asset is configured; to appear in the Park menu, you need to log out and log back into GLPI. Once this is done, the Servers asset (2) will be available in the Park menu 1.
Clicking on it takes you to the list of servers, which is currently empty because we have not configured an agent.
Create a rule to change the item type
Now we will create a rule to change the type of item (asset) to Servers based on the tag that has been configured on GLPI Agent.
Open the Administration menu 1 and click on Rules 2.
In the rule type, click on Transform itemtypes 1.
Click on the Add 1 button.
Name the rule 1, then select Yes 2 to make it active and click the Add button 3.
From the rule details, go to the Criteria tab 1.
Click on the Add a new criterion 1 button.
Configure your criterion 1 and click on Add 2.
Here I chose the criterion if the inventory tag contains the word “server”.
The criterion is added, then click on Actions 1.
This is where we will change the computer type to server, click on the Add a new action button 1.
Configure action 1 to assign the item type to Servers and click Add 2.
The action is added.
From the list of rules, we can find the rule we just created to change the asset type.
Configuring the inventory tag during GLPI Agent installation
Here, I’m not going to repeat the entire installation of GLPI Agent on the computers; that will be covered in the tutorial: GLPI 11 – Configure fleet inventory with GLPI AgentI’m just going to show you the steps that change.
GLPI Agent on Windows
Launch the installation with the Typical type, when configuring the server URL, uncheck the Quick installation 1 box.
In the Miscellaneous Options step, in the Tag field, enter the word server 1.
We could also have used one of the following tags because the criterion is Contains:
- physical-server
- virtual-server
- server-production
- test server
- ….
GLPI Agent on Linux
During the GLPI Agent configuration wizard, specify the server tag in response to the question: “Provide a tag to configure or leave it empty:”
Server Inventory in GLPI 11
Once GLPI Agent has sent the information to the GLPI 11 server, the server can be found in the same way as for computers.
As for computers, all the information (Components, Software, Network Port …) is retrieved in GLPI 11.
You know how to separate the Servers and Computers inventory in GLPI 11.
