The tool is build for Apache-PHP-MySQL environments, so you can install it on both windows and linux servers.

GLPI features:

• Inventory of computers, peripherals, network printers and any associated components through an interface, with inventory tools such as: FusionInventory or OCS Inventory.
• Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).
• Item lifecycle management.
• Licenses management (ITIL compliant).
• Management of warranty and financial information (purchase order, warranty and extension, damping).
• Management of contracts, contacts, documents related to inventory items.

In addition, like any open source project, it is possible to modify and examine its source code.

In this article, i will show you how to install GLPI on Ubuntu Server 18.04.

What you need

The installation of GLPI is really simple, but you must have a previous knowledge in the use of the terminal. Besides installing LAMP stack and of course a computer with Ubuntu Server 18.04.

Let’s get to work.

1. Upgrade the system

First you have to update the system. Doing this will ensure you have the latest package news, as well as the latest security patches. Open a terminal and run.

:~$ sudo -i

When you enter the password, you will be root. Then run:

:~# apt update && apt upgrade

And with this done, you’ll have your system up to date.

2. Install LAMP Stack

GLPI is a web-based application, i.e. you need an installed and fully functional web server. For this tutorial, I will use apache2. It is the most popular web server and is available easily and directly from the Ubuntu repositories. Run:

:~# apt install apache2

Now enable it to start the service as soon as you load the system and initialize the service as well.

:~# systemctl enable apache2
:~# systemctl start apache2

Now if you go to your web browser and access http://IP_SERVER you will see this.

It’s PHP’s turn.

PHP is a programming language in which GLPI is built. You have to install it to run it.

:~# apt install php7.2 php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-intl php-pear php-imagick php7.2-imap php-memcache php7.2-pspell php7.2-recode php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-xsl php7.2-mbstring php-gettext php7.2-ldap php-cas php7.2-apcu libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mysql

Finally install MariaDB. Type on a terminal:

:~# apt install mariadb-server

Now run the configuration script to define password and other options.

:~# mysql_secure_installation

After defining the password, you will be asked about other things. Answer Y N Y Y.

Now you have to create a database dedicated to GLPI and a new MariaDB user.

:~# mysql -u root -p

And then creates the database and the new user.

CREATE DATABASE glpidb;
USE glpidb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glpidb.* TO 'glpiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'glpipss';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Of course, you’re free to change the names to whatever you want.

3. Download and install GLPI

Now it’s time to install GLPI. First, download it.

:~# cd /tmp/
wget https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/9.3.1/glpi-9.3.1.tgz

Afterwards, you have to extract it, move it to /var/www/html and assign permissions to it.

:~# tar -xvf glpi-9.3.1.tgz
:~# mv glpi /var/www/html/
:~# chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/
:~# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/

Now go to your browser and access GLPI to complete the installation http://IP_SERVER/glpi

Then you have to accept the license terms.

On the next screen you will be asked if it is an installation or an upgrade.

Afterwards, the system will make an inspection of the dependencies in need.

On the next screen, you will be prompted to enter the MariaDB for GLPI information.

And at the end, you have select the database created.

It will then initialize the database.

The following screens show that the installation is on the right way.

And finally you will see the log in screen.

When you enter the password, you’ll see something like this.

Conclusion

GLPI is a great system that allows us to obtain computer solutions for our company. You can modify and take inventory, tracking incidents and so on.

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As the article title says, Zabbix is a fantastic open-source application that monitors networks within a given topology. It was first created by Alexei Vladishev, specialized in networks with an important user base and an active community, that is always contributing both in its development and in its support for users. Uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 as database. Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP.

Let’s get to work: installing the Prerequisites

The first thing we must always do is to make sure that our system is up to date. For them we write on a terminal:

           sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

With this single line we do two things: the first is to refresh the cache of the repositories and the second is to update them without being asked if we want to do it.

Once our system is updated with the latest security patches, the next thing we need to do is install a LAMP server. We can do it with the following instructions, always from the terminal:

          sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 mysql-server-5.7 mysql-client php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-cgi php-xml php-mbstring php-bcmath

Already with that we will have a basic LAMP server running on our system.

Then we must change our timezone in the php.ini file. As an example I will put America/Caracas.

           sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

For the changes to take effect, we must restart the apache service2.

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

Installing Zabbix

Now we can add the Zabbix repository for Ubuntu 18.04 and then install it using the APT package manager. To add the repository just install a.deb file that we download with the following command:

          wget http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_3.4-1%2Bbionic_all.deb

and then we install it with:

sudo dpkg -i zabbix-release_3.4-1+bionic_all.deb

As we have added a new repository, we must refresh the cache of it, we do it with:

sudo apt update

And we proceed to install in a single command: the Zabbix server, the agent and the  front-end to access from the web browser:

          sudo apt install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-agent zabbix-frontend-php

Configure MySql

At this point, we already have Zabbix installed but we need to configure mysql so that the program knows how to use it.

            sudo mysql_secure_installation

Where we will define our root key. The rest of the questions can be answered according to our taste. In my case, I said: Y,N,Y,Y.

Now we must log in to mysql with the password we have previously defined, to create the database and the zabbix user.

         sudo mysql -u root -p

          CREATE DATABASE zabbix;

And select the database with:

           use zabbix;

Now we must create a mysql user that has permissions on the Zabbix database.

         GRANT ALL ON zabbix.* TO ‘zabbixuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘zabbixpss’;

We briefly explain: zabbix is the database; zabixuser is the username mysql and zabbixpss is the password for that username. Obviously when you do the tutorial don’t tell anyone the password 😉

Now we leave mysql writing exit

At this point we must enable the ubuntu root user for the following commands to work.

sudo -i

And then:

      sudo passwd root

it will ask us for a new password and that’s it.

We log in as root:

su

Next, copy the mysql configuration to the new user.

      zcat /usr/share/doc/zabbix-server-mysql/create.sql.gz | mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix

Defining the basic settings of Zabbix

We are almost finished, for now we have to define some parameters in the Zabbix configuration file so that it can work correctly.

          nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf

We must modify these parameters so that you can communicate with mysql:

DBHost=localhost

DBName=zabbix

DBUser=zabbixuser

DBPassword=zabbixpss

For these changes to take effect we must restart the Zabbix, apache and mysql services.

For apache:

           systemctl restart apache2.service

Next, the zabbix server:

           systemctl restart zabbix-server.service

And Finally, mysql:

           systemctl restart mysql.service

We have finally completed the process, and can view your front-end from the web browser.

          http://ip_server/zabbix

and we should see something like this.

We click on next

After clicking on next we are presented with a screen where we must enter the mysql configuration parameters:

Then we can name the zabbix instance that we have just created:

You will then give us the summary of the pre-installation:

And finally, we did it: Zabbix-server is installed!!

When you access the zabbix directory again from your browser, you will be able to log in.

To log in as administrator, the user is admin and the password is zabbix, with this we will enter the dashboard

Of course, in this instantiation the Dashboard is empty, the agent is already installed in the machines to be monitored, and then add them to Zabbix.

Zabbix is a very useful server tool for monitoring services and today we have learned how to install it in our Ubuntu Server 18.04.

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