Certificates

Certificates management in GLPI allows to:

• Create an inventory of all organization certificates;

• Follow installation of certificates on assets;

• Include certificates in GLPI financial management;

• Anticipate and follow certificates renewal.

Main fields of a certificate

It is possible to use templates to generate this object.

List of basic fields

• Name

• Status

• Location

• Technician in charge

• Group in charge

• Alternate usernmame number

• Serial number

• Alternate usernmame

• Inventory number

• User

• Group

• Manufacturer

• Inventory number

• Comments

Description of specific fields

• Manufacturer (Root CA): This drop-down list allows you to select the certificate manufacturer;

• Certificate type :

• Self-signed: Tells whether certificate is self-signed;

• DNS name: The prefix of the domain name associated with the certificate (for example, if domain name is server.mycompany.com, DNS name is server);

• DNS suffix: The suffix of the domain name associated with the certificate (for example, if domain name is server.mycompany.com, DNS suffix is mycompany.com);

• Expiration date: Expiration date of the certificate, useful to configure alerts and anticipate renewal;

• Command used: Can store the system command that generated the certificate;

• Certificate Request (CSR): Can store the system command that generated the CSR file;

• Certificate: Can store the data contained in the CRT file (PEM).

The different tabs

Items

List of all other linked GLPI Items. You can manually add an item by selecting it from the drop-down list.

Domains

Domains represents an Internet domain, with its name, expiration date... This object can itself be linked to other objects in GLPI support (tickets, problems, changes).

Management

Management of financial and administrative information, this information is visible in the 'Management' tab on the object 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 a material (PDF, txt, png, etc.) You can attach a document already uploaded to GLPI or add a new one directly from this tab.

Note

The Notes tab provides a free text field for storing additional information. Notes are displayed in the order of their creation. You can also add a document

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").

For dropdowns or objects with a parent/child relationship, the modification of a child will appear in the history of the parent element.

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.