README.md

About GLPI

GLPI stands for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package, that provides ITIL Service Desk features, licenses tracking and software auditing.

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
• Incidents, requests, problems and changes management
• Knowledge base and Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Asset reservation

Moreover, GLPI supports many plugins that provide additional features.

License

It is distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 - please consult the file called COPYING for more details.

Some screenshots

Tickets Timeline

DCIM drag&drop

Components

Prerequisites

• A web server (Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc.)

• MariaDB (or MySQL < 5.7)

• PHP 5.6 or higher

• Mandatory PHP extensions:

  • json
  • mbstring
  • mysqli
  • session
  • gd (picture generation)
  • curl (CAS authentication)

• Recommended PHP extensions (to enable optional features)

  • domxml (CAS authentication)
  • imap (mail collector and users authentication)
  • ldap (users authentication)
  • openssl (encrypted communication)

• Supported browsers:

  • IE 11+
  • Edge
  • Firefox (including 2 latests ESR version)
  • Chrome

Please, consider using browsers on editor's supported version

Download

See :

• releases for tarball packages.
• Remi's RPM repository for RPM packages (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS)

Documentation

Here is a pdf version. We are working on a markdown version

• Installation
• Update

Additional resources

• Official website
• Demo
• Translations on transifex service
• Issues
• Suggestions
• Forum
• IRC : irc://irc.freenode.org/glpi
• Development documentation
• Plugin directory
• Plugin development documentation

Used JS libraries

• Chartist.js v0.10.1 MIT/WTFPL
• chartist-plugin-legend v0.6.0 ISC
• chartist-plugin-tooltip v0.0.17 MIT
• Font-Awesome v4.7.0 MIT
• fuzzy v0.1.3 MIT
• gridstack.js v unknow-dev MIT
• htmLawed v1.2.4 LGPL3/GPL2+
• jQuery v1.10.2 MIT
• jQuery UI v1.10.4 MIT
• jQuery plugins *
• Leaflet v1.2.0 BSD2S
• PrismJS v MIT
• spin.js v2.3.2 MIT
• TinyMCE v4.7.1 LGPL2.1
• Underscore.js v1.8.3 MIT
• Lodash v unknown MIT

Support

GLPI is a living software. Improvements are continuously made, new functionalities are being developed, and issues are being fixed.

To ease support and development, we need your help when encountering issues. There is a GLPI version typical lifecycle:

• A new major version (9.3) is released.
• Minor versions (9.3.x), fixing bugs or issues, are published after several weeks. Please consider updating to the latest realeased minor version if you encounter some bugs or performance issues.
• Several months after major version realesed, a new major version (9.4) is released Previous major versions become unsupported, please update to the new major version. Obviously, we provide support for the migration tools too!