{"id":7342,"date":"2019-02-08T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glpi-project.org\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:24:36","slug":"asset-management-with-glpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/asset-management-with-glpi\/","title":{"rendered":"How to manage more than 1.000 IT assets with GLPI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">IT assets management is one of the major problems every big company faces nowadays. How do they solve it? <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">First, let\u00b4s clarify the term \u201c<strong>asset management<\/strong>\u201d. IT assets are electronic devices (printers, mobile phones, computers, laptops, etc.) company using for work. For stable work flow all these devices have to be <strong>maintained in \u201cready-to-use\u201d<\/strong> condition, so that means that IT manager has to check warranty, system status, connection, etc. of each of them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For small companies with limited number of devices it is possible to check them manually, but when we talk about companies with large IT infrastructure which includes dozens of devices (sometimes in different cities or even countries), manual approach is impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this case big companies often use <strong>ITSM software<\/strong>, which helps them to track and maintain all assets regardless of their geographical location. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/\"><strong>GLPI ITSM software<\/strong> <\/a>provides numerous advanced features for inventory and asset management. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Main features of GLPI ITSM software which help you with asset management:\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Asset inventory: computers, screens, printers, network equipments, devices and phones<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Detailed view of assets with their connections and network ports<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Complete history of modifications for each asset<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Operating system management (name, version, edition, kernel, license, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Inventory and management of installed software<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Management of internal components<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Asset lifecycle management (from stock to withdraw)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Virtualization (host to vm relation, operating system, software)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Network discovery and local inventory using FusionInventory or OCS Inventory plugins<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>So, who is managing more than 1.000 IT assets with GLPI?<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let's have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/telemetry\/\">GLPI Telemetry<\/a> - resource we have created to collect the data on voluntary basis. <\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.PROMA Group (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.promagroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.promagroup.com\/<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Proma is a multinational group in designing and manufacturing of metal body subassemblies, chassis systems, seat frames and operating modules of automotive vehicles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c'We implemented the GLPI solution starting with the operation in Brazil and extending the other units of the Proma Group. With the solution's fast location capabilities, the language barrier where we own industrial plants was not a problem. The tool assists us in an essential way in the decision making, control of the computational park and in meeting the requests of the corporation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Number of assets managed with GLPI: 1.700<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. University Paris Nanterre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parisnanterre.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.parisnanterre.fr\/<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From its very creation in the 1960s, University Paris Nanterre has dedicated itself to being a new type of institution of higher education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Number of assets managed with GLPI: 2.200<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3. The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etecsa.cu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.etecsa.cu\/<\/span><\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Telecommunications Company of Cuba SA has a mission of \"Providing telecommunications services that meet the needs of customers and the population\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Number of assets managed with GLPI: 60000<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4. Auchan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auchan.pl\/pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.auchan.pl\/pl<\/span><\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">International retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups (337,900 employees) with a presence in France and 15 countries. Currently GLPI is used by Auchan in Poland. What do they think about GLPI? \u201cAwesome!\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Number of assets managed with GLPI: 6500 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. College Montmorency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmontmorency.qc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.cmontmorency.qc.ca\/<\/span><\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Montmorency College is located in Canada and offers a wide range of pre-university and technical training programs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Number of assets managed with GLPI: 3.000<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As you can see, company above successfully using <strong>GLPI to manage more than thousand IT assets<\/strong> of their companies. If you want to join them, you can <strong>download<\/strong> the latest GLPI version here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/download\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/glpi-project.org\/download\/<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We have a special <strong>subscriptions<\/strong> created to boost your GLPI experience: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/subscriptions\/\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/glpi-project.org\/subscriptions\/<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT assets management is one of the major problems every big company faces nowadays. How do they solve it? First, let\u00b4s clarify the term \u201casset management\u201d. IT assets are electronic devices (printers, mobile phones, computers, laptops, etc.) company using for work. For stable work flow all these devices have to be maintained in \u201cready-to-use\u201d condition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-produits","tag-asset-management","tag-case-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436473,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions\/436473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glpi-project.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}