Installation¶

Get the archive for your GLPI¶

First, download archive:

Recent versions (>= 0.90) : https://github.com/fusioninventory/fusioninventory-for-glpi/releases

FusionInventory for GLPI tarball name follow this convention:

fusioninventory-for-glpi_
GLPI major release (0.80, 0.83, 0.84, 0.85, etc)
a '+' symbol
FusionInventory release

Examples

9.5+4.0
10.0.0+1.0

Installation¶

Warning

If a previous FusionInventory version is already installed, you must read the Update page.

Important

Please, do a backup of your database before install

Uncompress the archive into the plugin folder of GLPI. File list looks like:

|- glpi
   |- plugins
      |- fusioninventory
         |- index.php
         |- hook.php
         |- inc
         |- ...

Installation procedure

CLI installation (recommanded)Web interface installation

Run these commands from console / terminal:

php bin/console glpi:plugin:install --username=glpi fusioninventory
php bin/console glpi:plugin:activate --username=glpi fusioninventory

Connect to GLPI
Go in the menu Setup > Plugins
Install the plugin FusionInventory
Activate FusionInventory

Initial configuration¶

Once the plugin is activated, you will have to go on the Administration > Entities > Root entity > tab FusionInventory page to set the Service URL. You need to enter the location of your GLPI server, for example http://glpi.mydomain/, do not add plugins/fusioninventory in the URL.

Options detail in general configuration¶

In general configuration of the plugin FusionInventory for GLPI, there are the options:

SSL-only for agent: send an error response to an agent when this agent communicates to the server without SSL.

Security¶

Important

We strongly recommend to activate SSL on the server side to protect human user communications, and eventually agent communications too.

See security page for details.

GLPI cron¶

It's very important for tasks management, see cron in GLPI for details.

Agent configuration¶

Once this is done, you can install and configure your agents.