Consumables

Consumables are items relating to resources or supplies intended to be used, loaned or entrusted as part of maintenance operations or the day-to-day running of an IT estate. These consumables generally include items such as USB sticks, HDMI cables or spare parts for hardware.

Apart from common actions, some actions are specific to consumables:

• Add new consumables to a model ;

• List allocated consumables: The Summary menu button allows you to see a summary of allocated consumables

In a consumable form, the following information is available:

Note

Consumables cannot be managed by the agent or automatic inventory

• Name

• Consumable type

• Technician in charge

• Group in charge

• User

• Comments

• Picture

• Location

• Reference

• Manufacturer

• Inventory number

• Group

• Alert threshold

• Stock target

Consumables

In the Consumables tab, you can manage the quantities of consumables, allocate them to users/groups, put them back into stock, etc.

Management

Management of financial and administrative information, this information is visible in the “Management” tab on the computer’s form.

Documents

The document tab lets you link different types of file to a material (PDF, txt, png, etc.) You can attach a document already uploaded to GLPI or add a new one directly from this tab.

Links

Links offer several possibilities. Send the GLPI object file to another URL of your choice, or generate an RDP file, for example.

Notes

Note lets you add enriched text and attach a document.

Historical

Historical lists all the actions carried out on the object in question

All Information

For an item, all information is displayed on one page from the All tab. This shows all of the tabs of an object’s form in one view, one below the other.