PDUs¶

PDU lists all the item used to manage and monitor electrical distribution in a rack or datacenter.

In a PDU form, the following information is available:

Note

It is possible to use templates with PDUs.

Impact Analysis¶

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

Plugs¶

Plugs shows the number of sockets available on the PDU

Network Ports¶

This tab allows to manage the network ports attached to current item.

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 item’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 files to the item (PDF, txt, png, etc.) You can attach a document already uploaded to GLPI or add a new one directly from this tab.

Tickets¶

View all tickets linked to the item.

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 item you have selected.

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.