DCIM – Data Center Infrastructure Management

Patchpro® I – Infrastructure Connection Manager

Administer your facilities assets and power usage effectiveness, coupled with unprecedented visualization and access to your network architecture, connectivity, and components:

• Visualize and access racks, inventory and free rack units
  • Front and rear, back and rear and side views

• Visualize and work on multiple rows, racks, and pods

• Add/subtract components – drag and drop servers, switches, PDU’s, SFP’s Patch panels and more from your component library

• New components are saved to the database in real-time with the objects unique set of attributes

• Visualize and connect/disconnect free and used ports on devices and patch panels

• Green – free port
• Red – connected port

• Visualize Connections (GUI visually maps connections)
  • Patches between devices within the rack
  • Cross-connects between devices and cabinets
  • Front and Rear Connections
    • ‘View Connections’ quickly visually maps connections
      (Side A, B or A/B)

• Mouse-hover over free ports to view its connection and the patch objects unique attributes

• Select multiple objects and click ConnectView to map the selections connections

• Easily export to Microsoft Visio or Excel

• End-to-end connectivity literally ‘down to the wire’
  • ConnectView maps any object’s (PC, Server, Switch, cable, port etc.) path from start-to-finish in unprecedented detail

• Create and visualize patches and cross-connects by clicking on and connecting free ports

• MultiPatch allows users to create multiple patches between objects, manually or through a .csv (bulk) upload

• Individual racks indicate

• Total:
  • Energy consumption (W)
  • PDU’s connect via SNMP
  • Weight
  • Free rack units

RackView Object Search

• Search all rack assets using any criteria within the entire facility
  • View the full tree of connectivity from the building down to the device
  • Quickly navigate to the object in RackView by right click or drag & drop into the window

• RackView – planning mode
  • Design and build your DC and assign work orders to technicians, execute changes once confirmed

• Colour indicators on the sides of objects within the rack indicate planned work and the present status