Monitors¶

Each monitor has its own information (connections, contrats, network ports, etc.). All this information is divided into tabs. You can find your computers in Assets > Monitors:

Astuce

Note that if you modify a field manually, it will be considered locked. This will prevent it from being modified the next time the automatic inventory is uploaded.

For more information, see lock

In a display form, the following information is available:

Management type:

It is possible to manage displays either unitary or globally.

Unitary management corresponds to one display per computer while global management make the printer a virtual global element that will be connected to several computers.

Global management allows to limit the number of elements to manage when these elements are not a strategic data in the assets management.

It is possible to use templates with displays.

Impact Analysis¶

Impact analysis enables an infrastructure diagram to be drawn up, showing the dependencies and impacts in the event of equipment loss. This can be saved and exported

Operating systems¶

Operating systems includes information about your machine’s OS :

Name
Version
Architecture
Service Pack
Kernel
Edition
Product ID
Serial number
Company
Owner
Host ID
Installation date

Software¶

Lists all the software brought up during the inventory and those added manually

It is possible to install (in the logical sense) software on a PC manually.

To add new software to the list of applications, you need to go to the Assets > Software tab, which will then be visible from the software tab of the various elements of the installed base.

Connections¶

The connections are all the other hardware connected to the machine :

Computer
Other asset you have created

These items can be updated by the automatic inventory, but you can also connect them manually.

Network Ports¶

This tab allows to manage the network ports attached to an equipment. The information that can be viewed is:

Name
Port number
MTU
Speed
Internal status
Last change
Number of I/O bytes
Number of I/O errors
Duplex
VLAN
Connected to
Connection
Deleted

Management¶

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

Contracts¶

GLPI supports contracts management, in order to manage contract types such as loan, maintenance, support…

Contracts management allows to:

make an inventory of all contracts related to the organization assets
integrate contracts in GLPI financial management
anticipate and follow contract renewal.

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.

Knowledge Base¶

Lists all the articles in the knowledge base relating to the material.

Tickets¶

View all tickets linked to the computer

Problems¶

This tab refers to all hardware-related problems. Problems can also be linked to tickets, projects, etc. This allows you to have a complete scenario when necessary.

Changes¶

Changes lists all changes related to a material. From this tab, you can’t link a change directly, you can do it from Assistance > Changes > Items. You can create a new change from this page, which will be linked to the material you have selected.

Links¶

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

Locks¶

Locks are used to prevent a field from being modified when the inventory is uploaded. You can lock/unlock the fields you wish in a GLPI object.

Notes¶

Note lets you add enriched text and attach a document.

Reservations¶

The reservation tab lets you reserve equipment, view the reservation schedule, or cancel the possibility of reserving this equipment. By default, equipment cannot be reserved; you must first authorize this action manually.

Domains¶

You can attach Domains to your computer. Domains are also linked to other objects such as records, problems, etc.

Appliances¶

Appliances includes all business applications managed within GLPI. They can be linked to another GLPI object (computer, application, etc.) as well as to another appliance.

Databases¶

Databases list databases discovered by automatic inventory and those entered manually

Import information¶

Import information is information that is uploaded and governed by equipment import rules (administration > rules > Rules for import and link equipments)

History¶

The History tab is used to show any changes made to an item. The following information about the changes is available:

ID of the change.
Date and time the change was made.
User who made the change. If this field is not filled, it means that the action was done automatically (For example: automatic inventory update).
Field that was changed.
Description of the change that was made.

The description of the change represents either the difference between the old and the new value (For example with location field: Change HQ to Remote Office A), or the explanation of the action which was carried out (For example: Uninstallation of a software: « Gimp 2.0 »).

Note

For dropdowns or objects with a parent/child relationship, the modification of a child will appear in the history of the parent element.

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.

The different actions¶

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

connect a display to a monitor