What is GLPI?
GLPI (French abbreviation: Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique, or "Free IT Equipment Manager" in English) is an open source IT Asset Management, issue global positioning framework and administration work area framework. This product is written in PHP and disseminated/distributed as open-source programming under the GNU General Public License.
GLPI is an application assisting organizations with dealing with their data framework. The arrangement can construct a stock of the multitude of association's resources and to oversee authoritative and monetary errands. The framework's functionalities help IT Administrators to make a data set of specialized assets, as well as an administration and history of systems for upkeeps activities. Clients can announce episodes or solicitations (in light of resource or not) because of the Helpdesk highlight.
Reference: https://glpi-user-documentation.readthedocs.io/fr/latest/
Pre-Requirement's:
1 Fresh Installation of Ubuntu 20.04
2 PHP
3 MariaDB/ MySQL
4 Apache
Note: 2,3,4 are also called LAMP
Step's to follow for Installation GLPI
Step 1: Update and Upgrade the repositories
sudo apt update && upgrade -y
Step 2: Allow Root login
sudo sed -i 's/#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sudo service ssh restart
sudo passwd
reboot //reboot the system if needed.
Then, now login or ssh into system as root user i.e. "root@ip-addr"
Step 3: Install PHP
apt install php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-zip php7.4-gd php7.4-intl php7.4-intl php-pear php7.4-imagick php-bz2 php7.4-imap php-memcache php7.4-pspell php7.4-tidy php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-xsl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-ldap php-cas php-apcu libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-mysql
Step 4 : Install MariaDB Server
apt install mariadb-server
Note : Check for the status of mariaDB server to check whether installation is done correctly or not
systemctl status mariadb
or use this commands to enable and start the mariadb services .
systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start mariadb
Step 5: Install Apache Server
apt install apache2
Note : Check for the status of apache server to check whether installation is done correctly or not
systemctl status apache2
or use this commands to enable and start the apache services .
systemctl enable apache2
systemctl start apache2
Step 6: Enable port 80/tcp,443/tcp,445/tcp
ufw allow 80/tcp
ufw allow 443/tcp
ufw allow 445/tcp
ufw status
Step 7: Create Database for GLPI
Enable secure installation by setting root password to database
mysql_secure_installation
Then enter into database console
mysql -u root -p
Now, create database for GLPI
CREATE DATABASE glpi;
Now, create user for GLPI
CREATE USER 'glpi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongDBPassword';
Grant all the privilegies on GLPI
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glpi.* TO 'glpi'@'localhost';
Flush other privilegies, after that exit
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Step 8: Now download GLPI into the system either by wget or git
apt install wget
apt install git
wget https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/10.0.0/glpi-10.0.0.tgz
or
git clone https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/10.0.0/glpi-10.0.0.tgz
Now, unzip/decompress the download file
tar -xvf glpi-10.0.0.tgz
Step 9: Move glpi folder to /var/www/html and set necessary permissions
mv glpi /var/www/html/
chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/
chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/
Step 10: Finalize the GLPI
Now, open your browser and type your server ip as follow
http://ip-address/glpi/install/install.php
After entering ip-address in browser,First page will ask to select language
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| Select Language |
After that, Accept the terms of license and then click Continue button.
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| Agree the Terms & License |
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| Click on Install |
In next page, click on Continue
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| Click on Continue |
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| Step 1 Enter sql server details |
If the connection with the SQL databases is successful then select the database which we have created before, and click on continue
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| Step 2 Select GLPI |
After Clicking on Continue, it would take some time to complete/initialization ,then you will get the message like ok-database was intialized, then click on Continue.
Step 3 Initialization of Database
After clicking on Continue, in the next page click on the check box which say send " usage statics" and click on continue
Step 4 Collect Data
After clicking on Continue, the page will be last page i.e step 5, click on continue
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| Step 5 Last step before setup |
Therefore the Installation is finished, in the next page click on use GLPI
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| Step 6 Setup Finishes |
After completing the above steps, in the next page it will prompt for username and password.
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| Enter Username and Password |
The default username and Password/s are
For Administrator Account
username/login: glpi
password: glpi
For Technician Account
username/login: tech
password: tech
For Normal Account
username/login: normal
password: normal
For postonly Account
username/login: post-only
password: postonly
After login as Administrator, the page will be visible as
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| GLPI Home Page |
Therefore the installation og GLPI on Ubuntu 20.04 Server is Finished.
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