Enclosures
An enclosure is a type of equipment used to manage modular infrastructures, such as blade servers, storage bays or certain network equipment.
It enables several physical elements to be grouped together in the same box, while retaining individual management of the components.
When you add an enclosure (by + Add at the top of the screen), you can add certain information:
Name
Power Supplies (number of power supplies)
Impact Analysis
Impact analysis enables an infrastructure diagram to be drawn up, showing the dependencies and impacts in the event of equipment loss. This can be saved and exported
Items
Items lists all the elements present in the chassis. This operation must be carried out manually.
Components
Enclosure has specific Setup > Components compared with other equipment since this is rather passive equipment that contains no software, firmware, etc.
You can add a :
Generic device
PCI device
Power supply.
Network Ports
This tab allows to manage the network ports attached to an equipment. 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 enclosure'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 file to current 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 enclosure
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 current item.
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").
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.
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