Every IT department has it: the mythical stockroom with all those small parts, cables, plugs, adapters… and mice everywhere (each one with a long cable 😉). Once perfectly organized, it’s now the place where “things we might need someday” go to disappear – and no one remembers the rules for handing something out to the…
Read MoreTLTR1: Did you pick all the sweet grapes that grew in your vineyard? They’re sweet, but they degrade faster than you think. Now, to give them long-lasting value, get the must out of it and put a lot of knowledge, time and effort to create a high-value wine! TLTR2: Do you have an automatically fed…
Read MoreBlog auf DEUTSCH. Una versione ITALIANA seguirà fra poco! [Disclaimer: this blog is deliberatively written in German, an Italian version will follow. WürthPhoenix is Gold partner for GLPI for Italy and for the German Market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol), thus with this blog article we engage the German (and Italian) readers.] Am 26.6 durfte…
Read MoreIn the context of IT management, migrating data between different environments can be a critical activity. GLPI is a widely used open-source platform for IT asset and help desk management. When transitioning from an on-premise instance to a cloud version (such as NE4 Cloud), the migration process can become extremely complex. This article analyzes a…
Read MorePreamble:A use case from one of our clients required scanning several subnets to locate all the printers that should be imported into GLPI. Their infrastructure features a cloud-based NetEye Master and a Satellite within their farm. The connection between the master and the satellite is unidirectional – from the Satellite to the Master. With this…
Read MoreGLPI agents have various additional functionalities, from network discovery to remote inventory and ESX inventory. These can be controlled either directly from the command line (see my colleague’s blog https://www.neteye-blog.com/2024/07/glpi-device-discovery/ for some practical examples) or in a centralized way from the server, via the GLPI Inventory plugin (https://www.neteye-blog.com/2024/12/gui-based-glpi-network-inventory-setup-with-the-glpi-inventory-plugin/). There’s also another handy way to configure…
Read MoreGLPI agents not only perform a local inventory of the computer where they were installed, but also include several tools for discovering and inventorying other devices in their network: Of course, you’ll need to install and execute these tasks on only a few selected servers that reach the network sections you want. My colleague presented…
Read MoreSynopsis Important: Icinga2 security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for the package icinga2 is now available for NetEye 4. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores provide additional guidance about a vulnerability and give a detailed severity rating….
Read MoreSynopsis Important: GLPI security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for the package glpi is now available for NetEye 4. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores provide additional guidance about a vulnerability and give a detailed severity rating….
Read MoreScenario GLPI is integrated into NetEye and provides powerful asset management solutions. Usually GLPI agents are deployed on servers and clients: this way an up-to-date asset inventory is kept within NetEye. The GLPI package also provides a tool able to perform network SNMP scans, detecting for example network printers, switches, and routers, as well as…
Read MoreIt’s been two years now since TecLib released GLPI 10, a completely redesigned version of the popular Asset Management system. It natively integrates an asset inventory server and is delivered together with inventory agents called “GLPI Agents”. These agents are available for the major operating systems, from Windows to Linux and Android. The GLPI inventory…
Read MoreSynopsis Important: GLPI security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: High Topic An update for the package glpi is now available for NetEye 4. NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of High. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores provide additional guidance about a vulnerability and give a detailed severity rating….
Read MoreType/Severity Security Advisory: High Topic There is a security update for GLPI Agent Description This version specifically fixes 2 critical security issues related to MSI packaging on Windows: For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the links listed below in the References…
Read MoreThe popular open source software suite GLPI, an acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique, has been part of the NetEye ecosystem since its beginnings, more than 15 years ago. GLPI includes a comprehensive, pre-configured IT Asset management database, an ITIL-compliant service desk (ticketing) and feature-packed inventory agents. Within the scope of NetEye, GLPI is…
Read MoreIn GLPI Remote Inventory – Part 1 I described how to perform a remote inventory of Linux machines. Here in Part 2 I’ll describe instead how to perform a remote inventory on Windows machines using the WinRM (Windows Remote Management) protocol through an HTTPS listener. In order to create and use an HTTPS Listener on…
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