Racks

A rack is a piece of equipment such as a patch bay or computer cabinet used to organize, host and physically connect different network equipments and servers in a datacenter or technical room.

A rack is a dedicated object in GLPI that virtually represents the physical structure of a rack or cabinet. It is designed to :

• Organize equipment: A rack is used to visualize and manage the physical equipment (servers, switches, routers, UPS, etc.)

• installed in it.

• Facilitate physical management: It enables you to track where equipment is installed in a physical space (technical room, datacenter, etc.).

• Optimize space: Racks help ensure that space is used efficiently, and that there's still room for new equipment.

module assets - global view racks

When you add a rack (by + Add at the top of the screen), you can add certain information:

• Name

• Data center position

• Location

• Technician in charge

• Group in charge

• Serial number

• User

• Comments

• Position in room

• Number of units

• Height

• Max. Power (in watts)

• Max. weight

• Status

• Rack type

• Manufacturer

• Model

• Inventory number

• Group

• Server room

• Door orientation in room (North, East, South, West)

• Width

• Depth

• Measured power (in watts)

• Background color

Items

The Item tab shows the position of each element in the rack. You can modify, add or remove an item from your park to your rack.

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

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 a material (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 computer

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 the material you have selected.

Reservations

The reservation tab lets you reserve equipment, view the reservation schedule, or cancel the possibility of reserving this equipment. By default, equipment cannot be reserved; you must first authorize this action manually.

Historical

Historical lists all the actions carried out on the object in question

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.