Install PartKeepr ( Inventory Manage System ) in CentOS & RHEL

PartKeepr is an open source Inventory Manage System, primarily designed for electronic components. This article will help you to install Install PartKeepr in CentOS & RHEL Systems.

We assume you already have LAMP environment setup on your system or use LAMP setup instructions on CentOS/RHEL system.

Step 1: Install Required Packages

PartKeepr required multiple packages, Use following set of commands to install them, PHP and pear packages.

# yum install php-pear php-pecl-imagick php-gd

Install below pear packages as well

# pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com
# pear channel-discover pear.doctrine-project.org
# pear channel-discover pear.twig-project.org

# pear install pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineORM
# pear install doctrine/DoctrineSymfonyYaml
# pear install pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineSymfonyConsole
# pear install twig/Twig

Step 2: Download PartKeepr Archive and Extract

Download PartKeepr archive file using wget command from CLI.

# cd /var/www/html
# wget http://partkeepr.org/downloads/partkeepr-0.1.9.zip

Extract archive in document root of you domain and update permissions on files.

# unzip partkeepr-0.1.9.zip
# mv partkeepr-0.1.9 inventory
# chown -R apache.apache inventory
# chmod -R 755 inventory

Step 3: Create MySQL Database and User

After extracting code we need to create a MySQL database and user account for configuring WordPress. Use following set of command to do it

# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE inventory CHARACTER SET utf8;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON inventory.* to 'inventory'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_secret_password_';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit

Step 4: Start PartKeepr Web Install

Use following url to open partkeepr web installer, you need to change domain name in url with your system ip or domain.

http://svr1.tecadmin.net/inventory/setup/

And follow below steps.

Step 4: Open PartKeepr Web Access

After completing above instructions, Use following url to open partkeepr web interface, you need to change domain name in url with your system ip or domain.

http://svr1.tecadmin.net/inventory/frontend/

Step 4: Setup PartKeepr Cronjobs

Set up the following cronjobs by editing crontab using following command

# crontab -e

And append following jobs at the end of file

0 0,12 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/inventory/cronjobs/CreateStatisticSnapshot.php
0 0,6,12,18 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/inventory/cronjobs/UpdatePartCacheData.php
0 0 */2 * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/inventory/cronjobs/CheckForUpdates.php
0 0 */2 * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/inventory/cronjobs/UpdateTipsOfTheDay.php

If you cannot run cronjobs (e.g. you are on Windows), you can disable the cronjobs by adding the following line to your config.php file:

Configuration::setOption("partkeepr.cronjobs.disablecheck", true);