GLPI Agent 1.7.2 has been released!
You can download it on the GLPI Agent github project: https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/releases/tag/1.7.2
This version specifically fixes 2 critical security issues related to MSI packaging on windows:
These security issues impact all Windows installation performed with MSI packaging.
We encourage you to upgrade all these agents as soon as possible!
Anyway you don’t need to upgrade to 1.7.2 after updating to 1.7.1 if your GLPI Agent was not installed on windows with the MSI package.
Very soon the new major version of GLPI will be released with many new features, including a major overhaul of the interface.
Here is the quick look at automatic inventory features.
Fork of the Perl FusionInventory agent, this new agent is enhanced with several new features:
The GLPI agent can advantageously replace the FusionInventory agent because it remains fully compatible with the automatic inventory of the FusionInventory.
This new agent is already available, you can download and test it:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi-agent/releases
Nightly built packages are also available to get the latest developments: https://nightly.glpi-project.org/glpi-agent/
We provide the community with a documentation detailing the installation, use and configuration of this new agent. Note that there may still be a few aspects to be completed (the missing points will be filled in the coming weeks).
We also provide a perl script (see dedicated documentation) allowing you to install agent on Linux with a suitable package (rpm, deb, snap.)
Some screenshots to illustrate the ToolBox interface of new agent:
Some time ago the android agent has returned to the google play store. It supports versions 4 to 10.
For GLPI Network subscription customers, we have also added the possibility of configuring the server URL via mechanism called "Deeplink". Using QRCode agent automatically retrieves the configuration to connect to the server.
We are happy to announce we add support for automatic inventory directly to GLPI core.
New API REST (front/inventory.php) will be available to receive inventory files in historical format (OCS, fusioninventory) or via new format json.
We therefore keep compatibility with the previous agents (just it will be necessary to reconfigure the server URLs of the historical agents, or to set up a web proxy to perform a redirection to the new URL).
You can now manage with this new format most of GLPI's inventory objects, like telephones, applications, racks, etc.
This is enabled by a new rewrite of the underlying code. The interface is inspired by the community projects mentioned above, the code is new.
This code now allows you to receive partial inventories.
This consists of sending only part of the particular information related to the object, and indicating to the server - via a flag - to update only the data concerned.
Transfer, processing, insertion and update of data is done in a significantly faster way.
As seen above, GLPI now integrates the basic building block concerning automatic inventory.
However we have not yet taken over the advanced tasks allowed by previous projects.
Here are a few points about these tasks:
For these last two features several scenarios are possible:
In our roadmap it is planned to work on rewriting of these parts, but as long as version 10 being almost done (and this substantial work), we are postponing their availability for a few months.
