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Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) deals with the management of your IT inventory equipment in the data center by managing the placement of your equipment, from floor space, rack elevations to show device, and subcomponent configurations within those devices. In addition, power and cooling management and “what if” scenarios are also in the domain of DCIM. With netTerrain, organizations have the ability to visualize, search, manage and track all aspects of your infrastructure:
Data Center Space and IT Capacity Management
Organizations have the ability to manage data centers in a hierarchical fashion using drill-down capabilities and customize attributes for location information, such as Regions, Sites, Buildings, Floors, and Rooms for multiple data centers. 
- Cabinet and Floor Space Management: Configure data center floor space and cabinet utilization space within all data centers
- Rack Space Management: Rack mounted equipment placement, rack space occupancy and management of free rack space, heat, power, and weight requirements.
- Software/Application Management: CRUD (create, update, delete) operations for software and applications. By associating software licenses to an asset, organizations can map applications to systems to support CMDB-style relationships between assets and applications.
Smart Cabinet and Rack Management
netTerrain can manage Space, Power, Connectivity at the rack/cabinet level. netTerrain's smart rack unit placement utility automates the positioning of devices and ensures that all equipment is mounted properly based on cabinet occupancy rates and device dimensions
- Take advantage of dynamic, color-coded displays of racks and cabinets by occupancy, power usage or any other attribute
- Visualize equipment with vendor specific icons. Icons are assigned automatically based on library data of selected make and model
- Automate rack placement and ensure consistent equipment positioning
- Real-time and aggregate statistics for cabinets and racks
- Filtering of information based on user-defined criteria
Power Management
Assist in locating available power connections by rack space with displays power connections to rack mounted equipment. Managing power equipment such as Circuit Breakers, PDUs, UPSs, batteries, and generator.
- Track the location of all power equipment and available capacity
- Log and report power strip, breaker and PDU connectivity for any device
- Assist in locating available power capacity and equipment
- Report on overloaded power equipment
- Log and report primary and secondary power sources for all equipment
- Create What-If-Scenarious for new deployments, outages and other change events
With the netTerrain Integration toolkit, organizations can pull information from leading power and device management systems, in order to get up-to-date and real time information from any configuration item and its power utilization. For more information on the netTerrain Integration toolkit, please visit: http://www.graphicalnetworks.com/it-documentation/discovery-adapters.html.
In sum:
• Make informed capacity management decisions, such as space, power, and network connections
• Keep accurate track of your data center assets
• Reduce data center operating expenses
• Optimize and extend the life of data centers
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