Goal

• Integration of racks plugin
• visualizations

Inspirations

• http://ralph.allegro.tech/
• http://plugins.glpi-project.org/#/plugin/racks
• http://imgur.com/AXomyhJ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpMVRG9bPeA&feature=youtu.be&t=322
• http://www.device42.com/features/
• https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
• http://www.centeros.com/
• http://opendcim.org/
• https://www.racktables.org/

Features

Datacenter

A datacenter could be described by:

• a name
• an entity (and its recursivity)
• a location
• a deletion flag
• a date of creation
• a date of modification

Server Room

A room could be described by:

• a name
• an entity (and its recursivity)
• a location
• dimensions (col/rows to limit grid view)
• a parent datacenter relation
• a deletion flag
• a date of creation
• a date of modification

A Datacenter sub-menu could be inserted in the management menu of GLPI.

Here are the additional relations (tabs):

• Management (infocom)
• Contract
• Racks (see below)
• Documents
• Tickets/Problems/Changes
• Notes
• Historical

A Server Room sub-menu could be inserted in the management menu of GLPI.

We aim to provide a visualization displayed as a grid with racks in cells. We could add new racks directly on the grid (by clicking on a empty cell). Hovering a filled cell will display a tooltip with a resume of the rack (name, serial, filling state, inventory number, ...). Drag and drop a rack will change its position. A click on link icon will redirect to the rack view.

We will also provide a graphical switch to enable tabular data or viz mode (default mode).

Rack

A rack is an asset which could be described by:

• a name
• an entity (and its recursivity)
• a location
• a serial and an 'otherserial'
• a model
• a manufacturer
• a type
• a state
• assigned to a technician or a group
• has dimensions properties (width, height, depth)
• a number of units (U)
• could be templated
• could be deleted (trash support)
• have date of creation/modification
• a parent room relation
• a position in the room (x,y)
• a background color (for visualization)
• maximum power (in watts)
• measured power (in watts)
• maximum weight
• a date of creation
• a date of modification

Would be displayed in the form:

• computed power (in watts) from associated items

Here are the additional relations (tabs):

• Management (infocom)
• Contract
• Items (see below)
• Documents
• Tickets/Problems/Changes
• Notes
• Historical

A rack could be inserted in the Assets menu of GLPI.

Each racks could have items, a table will describe their relation:

• id of the parent rack
• type of the item
• id the item
• a position in the rack (unit)
• an orientation:
  • front
  • rear
• a background color (for visualization)
• horizontal position for "half racks" (no, left or right)

We want to provide a visual tab to display associated items. An hover on a line will display a resume of item. A click will redirect to it. And we can add a new relation by clicking on an empty line.

We will also provide a graphical switch to enable tabular data or viz mode (default mode) on the items tab.

Devices enhancement

Here is the list of assets who can be inserted in a rack (from glpi core):

• computers
• network equipments
• monitor
• peripheral (KVM for example)
• Chassis

Theses devices will need some additional informations that will be attached to their models:

• weight
• units needed
• depth (1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4)
• front/rear pictures (for visualization)
• power connections
• power consumption (in watt)
• half rack; for equipments that only take half a unit place

A link allowing do display the item into the rack viz could be available in the main form.

Items representation in racks

If model device have pictures for their front/rear panel, we could replace colored rectangles in this view by it. Is so, we should add a configuration option (user preference) for enable/disable the replacement (readability).

Example: https://repository.opendcim.org/

Storage

Add a new itemtype for storage. Might be :

• NAS
• SAN
• Tape

Enclosure (Chassis)

An enclosure could be described by:

• a name
• an entity (and its recursivity)
• a location
• assigned to a technician or a group
• a date of creation
• a date of modification
• a serial number
• a model
• an orientation (horizontal or vertical)
• a number of power suppplies (up to 6)
• a management IP address (and a MAC address)
• could be templated
• could be deleted (trash support)
• a state

An enclosure model could be described by:

• a name
• properties defined in devices enhancement

Here are the additional relations (tabs):

• Management (infocom)
• Contract
• Items
• Documents
• Tickets/Problems/Changes
• Notes Historical

Each enclosure could have items, a table will describe their relation:

• id of the parent enclosure
• type of the item
• id the item
• a position in the enclosure

Also, enclosures may be linked to some components:

• one or several power supplies,
• a network port,
• (a network card maybe?)

Power distribution units (PDU)

PDUs can mainly be considered as simple power strips.

A PDU could be described by:

• a name
• an entity (and its recursivity)
• a location
• assigned to a technician or a group
• a date of creation
• a date of modification
• a serial number
• a model
• a type
• an orientation (horizontal or vertical)
• a management IP address (and a MAC address)
• could be templated
• could be deleted (trash support)
• a state

Here are the additional relations (tabs):

• Management (infocom)
• Contract
• Documents
• Tickets/Problems/Changes
• Notes Historical

A PDU model could be described by:

• a name
• a rackable state (some are rackables, not others).

A PDU can be attached to a rack. Some of them are 'simply' rackable; others may be on rear bottom, left or right. Each PDU may be linked to a high voltage power supply.

PDUs may have several plug types.

Uninterruptible power supplies; from a GLPI point of view are PDUs with a battery component attached. Batteries components may have an additional live time field added.

Open questions/features (for a future version):

• Cable management
• Global power management
• Automatic inventory

Racks photos

Add photos to racks (one or more) as a representation of what it looks like currently.