How to use FusionInventory and GLPI to handle Assets management, including full lifecycle of assets from inventory to incidents history and management of all legally necessary informations.

1. Assets management
with FusionInventory and GLPI
Fabrice Flore-Thebault fabrice@esquimaux.be
December 30, 2010

2. Assets management : full lifecycle
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
GLPI - Assets management
About me
sysadmin in the free software community
themr0c on identica and twitter
involved in both projects, mainly in the documentation team
opensource consultant at esquimaux.be
esquimaux.be is the walloon branch of inuits.be, a belgian
company specialized in opensource infrastructure and
software development
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

3. Assets management : full lifecycle
Inventory of hardware and software
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Connect to administrative informations
GLPI - Assets management
Inventory of hardware and software
collect data for a CMDB
security : current installed software
history of changes and incidents
metrics to optimize resources
facts to planify
improve quality
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

4. Assets management : full lifecycle
Inventory of hardware and software
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Connect to administrative informations
GLPI - Assets management
Connect to administrative informations
warranty
licences
contracts
legal issues
finances
reports
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

5. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
GPLv2
born at FOSDEM 2010, fusion of 2 projects : fork of
OCSInventory Unix agent + Tracker plugin for GLPI
agent : perl
server : PHP
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

6. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
FusionInventory agent
unique agent for Linux, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X, Solaris,
AIX, HP-UX
perl based : modular and extensible
distribution : sources, packages, prebuilt all in one tarballs,
usb key
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

7. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
The inventories
local - hardware including USB devices, screens
local - software including antivirus, virtual machines
local - compatible with OCSInventory server
network discover with nmap, NETBIOS, SNMP
SNMP - printers: pages counters, ink level, network
connexions
SNMP - network switches: CPU, memory usage, network
connexions
direct import to GLPI handle network ports
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

8. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
Other tasks for the agent
wakeup
inventory on demand
wake on lan
peer to peer files transfert
custom tasks
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

9. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
LibFusionInventory
PHP library
communication with agents
manage duplicate hardware
to integrate into another product
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

10. FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
Assets management : full lifecycle
The inventories
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
Other tasks for the agent
GLPI - Assets management
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
FusionInventory for GLPI
inventory of computers, printers, switches
discover unknown hardware
planify tasks for agents
for GLPI 0.72 : released
without computers inventory
for GLPI 0.78 : beta in january
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

11. GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets management : full lifecycle Assets inventory
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets Helpdesk
GLPI - Assets management Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
GPLv2 PHP web application
IndepNet association, mainly french developers
worldwide usage, small to big business, administrations
authentication delegation (LDAP, IMAP, CAS)
strong separation of environments (entities)
i18n (35 languages)
data export
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

12. GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets management : full lifecycle Assets inventory
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets Helpdesk
GLPI - Assets management Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
Assets inventory
data sources : OCSInventory-ng, FusionIventory server
importation, synchronization
normalisation with dictionaries
plugins for other sources
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

13. GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets management : full lifecycle Assets inventory
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets Helpdesk
GLPI - Assets management Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
Helpdesk
simplified interface for helpdesk
ITIL compliance for incidents, service requests
business rules for tickets assignments
custom multilingual notifications
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

14. GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets management : full lifecycle Assets inventory
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets Helpdesk
GLPI - Assets management Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
Useful Plugins
OCS Import (Automatic synchronization with OCS)
Manufacturers Import (Dell, HP, Fujistu-Siemens)
Accounts inventory (passwords keeper)
Data injection (CSV import)
Financial reports
PDF export
...
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI

15. GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets management : full lifecycle Assets inventory
Fusionventory - Inventory network assets Helpdesk
GLPI - Assets management Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
Actual version : 0.78
entity based management enhanced (notifications,
administrative closing, business rules, authentification)
helpdesk enhanced : tickets lifecycle,
impact/urgency/priority matrix, ITIL
new database, framework, plugins API
LDAP enhancements
user interface polished
user documentation in french
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16. Outline
1 Assets management : full lifecycle
Inventory of hardware and software
Connect to administrative informations
2 Fusionventory - Inventory network assets
FusionInventory facts - fusioninventory.org
FusionInventory agent
The inventories
Other tasks for the agent
LibFusionInventory
FusionInventory for GLPI
3 GLPI - Assets management
GLPI facts - glpi-project.org
Assets inventory
Helpdesk
Useful Plugins
New version : 0.78
esquimaux.be Assets management with FusionInventory and GLPI