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The GLPI project

Asset
management
withGLPI

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Summary

Overview
ITILcompliance
GLPI0.78
GLPI0.80&Roadmap
Documentation&translation

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Heterogenous needs

Traceability(history)

Financial(inventory)

Security(update)

Legal(licences)

Rationalization
Forecast (optimizeressources)
(planification)

Quality(usersatisfaction)

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Some numbers...
GLPIprojectis:
Anassociation:Indepnet(supportdevelopment);
105000linesofcode;
1versionevery6monthsince2003;
60+pluginscontributedbythecommunity;
25+languagesavailables;
600000+downloads;
982759+computersmanagedin
1777+referencedcompanies;
4850+communityforum'susers.

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Collaborative development

Development
team

Projectmanagement
Developments

Translations
Developers Newfeatures
Documentations Translators
Contributors
Writers

Reportbugs
requests

Users+Betatesters

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Easy deployment

Minimumprerequisites
Apache/PHP/Mysql
Availableimmediatly
AvailablepackagesforDebian,Fedora...
Directoryintegration(LDAP,Active

Directory,CAS...)

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Simple to use
Accessiblethroughawebbrowser
CustomisableUI
Intituiveuse
Internationalization(french,english,
spanish,russian,chinese...)
Advancedsearchengine
ExportinPDFandspreadsheets

Addnewfeatureseasilythankstoapluginsystem(CSVimport,

accountsmanagement...)

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Multi-entity management
Entitycanbeamanagementunit
Isolation
Hierarchy
Recursiveview(subentities)
Grantaccess

Rootentity

Noaccess
Noaccess
Aentity Bentity

AAentity ABentity BAentity BBentity


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OCSNG to GLPI synchronisation

DB

Computers
Internaldevices

Softwares

Externaldevices DB
OCS
Monitors

Printers

Suppliers
DB

Import
Synchronisation
Selectimportmode
Dictionnaries

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Helpdesk

Notification
Technician
Ticketupdate

Newticket
GLPIServer

Ne
Hotline

w
tic
Notification

ke
ts
User Emailinbox

Newrequest

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Business rules
Performactionwhenaticketiscreatedusingrules
Action:assigntoatechnician,definepriority...

Criteria:requester,group,category,description...

Assignticketto
technician

Newticket

Define
GLPIserver priorityas
Criterias:
user=CEO urgent
or
group=executiveboard

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Simplified user interface

Createtickets
Viewusertickets(pending,
closed)
Addticketfollowups
Itemreservation
FAQ

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Standard interface
Managetickets(status,
urgency,impact,...)
Ticketshistory

Managetimeandcosts
foreachticket

Planinterventions
Knowledgebase

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Reports and statistics

Commercialandfinancial
informations
Assets(foreachyear,
contract,...)
Tickets
Network
Helpdeskstatistics
(technicians,users,
assets,categories,
priorities...)

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ITIL

BestpracticeslibrarytoorganiseanITservice
StrongdemandforcompliancewithITILprocesses
Oneweekdevelopermeetingtodefinespecifcations
2ITILcertifiedcoredevelopers

Contraints:
PreservethatarealreadypresentintoGLPI

Smoothmigrationwithouthistoryloss

ApplyITILprocessingintothecore

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GLPI 0.78

IntermediateversionbeforeGLPI0.80
Majorreleaseevenifit'sinthe0.7xbranch

Redesigndatabase
Redesignframework
Improveuserinterface:
Creationofaglossary

Reorganizeconfigurationscreens

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GLPI 0.78

Rewriteautomaticactionssystem
Notificationsbyentity
Delegation

Mailtemplates

Events

Internationalized

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GLPI 0.78

LDAPimprovements:
Importusersonthefly(mails&tickets)

SimplyusersearchandimportUI

FilterresultsbydatetoavoidLDAPsizelimit

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Newdropdownmanagement
Moreextensible

Locations:visibleinsubentitiesandnowwithroom

andbuildingcode
Ticketscategory:managedbyentityandcanbe

hiddeninthesimplifiedinterface
etc.

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GLPI 0.78

Delegateadministrationbyentity
Dropdowns:
Taskscategories

Ticketscategories

Budgets

Notificationsandalerts
Automaticticketclosingdelay
LDAP,OCSNG&emailconfiguration
Businessrules

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Helpdesk:
Ticketslifecycle
Chooseurgencyandimpactlevelstodisplay
Computeproritybasedontheselevels
Managemajorincidentsasapriority

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GLPI 0.78

Helpdesk:
RefactorUIfortickets
Impact/Urgency/Priority

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GLPI 0.78

Helpdesk:
Validaterequests
Managetasksandfollowups
Managesolutions(andapproval)
Administrativeclosing
Automaticclosing
Improvestatistics(PNGorSVG)

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GLPI 0.78

Helpdesk:
Mailroutingengine
Newdocumentmanagement(unicity)
Importmailattachments

Importembeddedimages

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GLPI 0.78

CurrentlyinRC2

Needfeedback!

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Plugins 0.78

ModifypluginAPI:pluginsforGLPI0.72incompatibles
Listofalreadyportedpluginsavailableat:
https://forge.indepnet.net/projects/plugins/wiki/Available078

Pluginsgrealtyimproved
Reports:improveframework
PDF:newmanagementofPDFexport
Webservices:newavailablemethods

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GLPI 0.80

Underdevelopment
ITILv1:
SLA(andcalendarbasedcontracts)

Usersatisfaction

Otherhelpdeskimprovments
Linkbetweentickets
Linkbetweenticketandknowledgebase
Multipleusers,techniciansanddevices

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Documentation and translation

Hackweeksmeetinginmay2010
10peopleinvolved(developersandusers)
Glossarydefinition
Frenchdocumentationredaction

Objectives
CompletefrenchdocumentationforGLPI0.78
CompleteenglishdocumentationforGLPI0.80

GLPIteamislookingformoreredactorsandtranslators!

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More about GLPI

http://glpiproject.org:GLPIproject'swebsite
http://forge.indepnet.net:developmentforge
http://glpiproject.org/forum:forum
http://plugins.glpiproject.org:pluginscatalog

Tomorrway9h20AM:retourd'exprienceCNAMTS
(ENSCBPAmphi1)

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