Features

Additional features who can be added :

• below are some examples of customizing existing GLPI elements :

  • geninventorynumber : automatically generate inventory numbers
  • additionalalerts : additional alerts for core GLPI feature
  • reports : additional reports

• below are examples of adding new inventory items :

  • appliances : management of business applications
  • Racks : racsk/bays management

• below is examples of importing external data into GLPI :

  • datainjection : upload data from CSV files
  • manufacturersimports : import financial data from the manufacturers website

Hooks

GLPI provides hooks or callbacks in order to :

• interact with standard GLPI events : create/modify/delete/purge/restore
• customize the GLPI user interface : adding tabs to additional objects, mass actions, reports/statistics
• schedule tasks via CRON GLPI
• create additional notifications

Rights / Profiles

A plugin can create specific rights, which is in addition to the standard GLPI rights

Interaction with other objects

Plugins can interact with :

• core GLPI actions or objects using standard functions :

• history : archival management / history display
  • reservations : reservation managment
  • return tickets : create / display tickets on an object managed by GLPI
  • documents
  • notes
  • financial information

• additional core GLPI objects can interact with plugin objects
• interaction with other plugins : see linking between plugins : [LinkingPlugins]

A plugin does not modify the tables of core GLPI. If additional data is required, new tables are created to hold the custom data.