GLPI is an Information Resource Manager that also supplies a webbased trouble ticket system. It integrates very well with OCS Inventory. Additional information can be found on the [[http://glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en|GLPI website]].

=====Pre-installation=====
GLPI is a web application that is written in PHP. It stores it's information in a MySQL-database. We'll use LDAP for user authentication.
  * Hannibal documentation on [[hannibal:apache|howto install an Apache webserver]] with support for PHP.
  * Hannibal documentation on [[hannibal:mysqlserver|howto install a MySQL-database]].
  * Hannibal documentation on [[hannibal:fds|howto install a LDAP server]] for user authentication.

=====Installation=====
Debian Etch has a package available for GLPI. Install the software.

  apt-get install glpi

=====Configuration=====
Point your browser to http://yourwebserver/glpi/install/install.php and follow the instructions.

For LDAP authentication logon to GLPI as an admin-user. Click on the 'Administration'-icon and choose 'Setup'. A new page will appear on which you must choose 'External authentication'. In the 'LDAP configuration'-section of this page fill up at least these fields

  LDAP Host    your_ldap_server
  BaseDN       ou=people,dc=intra,dc=example,dc=com
  Login Field  uid

After the configuration has completed you can logon to GLPI as a regular LDAP-user at http://yourwebserver/glpi