netTerrain Complaint of the Week: ITK Features
By Jan Durnhofer - April 12, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: when is netTerrain coming out?
By Jan Durnhofer - April 2, 2019Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product! Let’s be honest: nothing is perfect — and by discussing problems netTerrain users have encountered, we want to foster a collaborative environment, share some workarounds around common issues and…
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netTerrain 8.1: Enhanced Discovery & Outside Plant
By Jan Durnhofer - March 27, 20198.1 is finally here and, though I hate to admit it, we are releasing it a lot later than we would have liked. We are, however, very happy with the results. With every release, we keep improving our usability and feature set as we strive to always put out nothing less than the best IT…
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netTerrain not supporting netViz (insert pet feature) !
By Jan Durnhofer - March 22, 2019Welcome back to the second installment of a new weekly update that could as well be called “self-deprecation”…this blog series is for those old geezers like me who come from the netViz world. You’ll have a laugh, I promise! Anyways, the title of this blog has already given me away: “netTerrain not supporting netViz !”…I…
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DCIM Software: Integration with Existing IT is Crucial
By Jan Durnhofer - March 21, 2019Part 1: integration methods In a recent survey of netTerrain users (from a variety of customers large and small), 100% of respondents said that they would recommend netTerrain to others. That’s right: our users use netTerrain! One of the key aspects for a successful DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) implementation is its ability to be…
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netTerrain User Satisfaction Survey Results (for DCIM, OSP, Logical)
By Jan Durnhofer - March 19, 2019The netTerrain users have spoken and now it’s time to brag: we just got the results from our latest survey. For starters, exactly 0% of respondents would not recommend netTerrain to others. Yeah, that’s right: all users — but one — said that they would recommend netTerrain to others. The lone dissenter hasn’t implemented netTerrain…
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netTerrain Complaint of the Week: dwg files?
By Jan Durnhofer - March 1, 2019Welcome to a new weekly update in which we do something a bit odd for a vendor: expose holes in our product. We’re pulling from complaints, rants, and problems our customers have experienced using netTerrain. The goal is to discuss real-life problems netTerrain users have encountered, and by doing so, to foster a collaborative environment…
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Discover your Network Like a Boss with the New netTerrain Collector
By Jan Durnhofer - February 7, 2019Up until now, the discovery of the network in netTerrain was done through the Integration Toolkit (ITK). This discovery process worked quite well across multiple scenarios; there were cases, however, where the ITK discovery fell short. What did we do? We took a look at all the instances in which our discovery had limitations. Starting…
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Easy Cable Management Using the New Cable Mapper
By Jan Durnhofer - October 2, 2018Cable management can be a daunting task, especially if you need to create many cables between different ports in your inventory. You can use shortcuts and other methods to create single cables between different ports. You can also create multiple cables between sequences of ports using shortcuts, however, this only works when there is some…
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Buh-bye DCIM Magic Quadrant!
By Jan Durnhofer - October 1, 2018This is old news already, but you may have read that the Gartner DCIM magic quadrant is “retired”. It’s easy to bash Gartner for this on as it was such a mediocre effort one wouldn’t know where to begin. Let me try with the obvious one: they put CA on the “best quadrant” — in…
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Tips for Pretty Network Diagrams: Links that Sing
By Jan Durnhofer -In this final blog for our ‘Pretty Network Diagram’ series, we’ll focus on links. In netTerrain, links are not just black lines connecting two nodes: they can have styles, colors, thicknesses, can include bend points, and can also be arranged nicely when you have several links connecting the same endpoints. Link styles Links can include…
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Tips for Pretty Network Diagrams: Resizing and Decorating
By Jan Durnhofer -In our previous blog on ‘pretty network diagrams’, we discussed alignment and arrangement of objects on your diagrams. Here, we will expand the concept a little further so you can take advantage of some cool features in netTerrain to make your IT documentation sing. Resizing objects in bulk The last thing you want to end…
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