Complaint of the Week: headers and footers giving me trouble!
By Jan Durnhofer - January 7, 2020Another week, another complaint here at GN… If you are new to this blog series, we like to poke holes at all things netTerrain, because, why not? Our customers love the tool, from its DCIM capabilities, network mapping and cable management features, to fiber and outside plant, but it ain’t perfect and showing our weaknesses…
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SNMP discovery vs. Network connectors – which is better?
By Jan Durnhofer - November 18, 2019As netTerrain (for DCIM, Network Mapping, OSP software) offers both options, I get asked this question often: “what should I use? netTerrain’s native SNMP discovery or some connector to an existing system?” And the answer, as you may expect, is “…it depends.” SNMP discovery: “the magic button” netTerrain’s SNMP discovery is a nice feature. You…
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GDPR Compliance? How netTerrain Helps
By Jan Durnhofer - November 15, 2019Recently, a customer asked us about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the context of his netTerrain documentation. Is netTerrain compliant, and can netTerrain help European Union (EU) organizations get/stay compliant? GDPR and Compliance GDPR is a new regulation that, among other things, expects an organization to meet certain standards for your network…
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DCIM software selection: the don’t’s and don’t’s
By Jan Durnhofer - November 12, 2019I must say that we are quite proud of our customers as they really are a smart bunch. Now, I’m not just saying this just because they happened to choose netTerrain for their Data Center Infrastructure monitoring. That is far too easy for me to say being a (biased)vendor. I truly think our customers are…
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netTerrain 8.2: Security, Search, Usability
By Jan Durnhofer - October 23, 2019Because we like to stay on the move here at Graphical Networks, we keep improving netTerrain. 8.2 is the third incarnation of the 8.x series (also called “China”, as you may have seen from the pretty guide covers featuring beautiful landscapes from the Asian country). This time around, our engineering team worked on 35 tickets:…
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Complaint of the Week: Moving catalog objects between netTerrain systems
By Jan Durnhofer - October 22, 2019Welcome back to our complaint of the week series (we had a bit of a hiatus…I guess no complaints, eh?). We received a new complaint that was interesting: “can I move a catalog object between two netTerrain systems?” By ‘catalog object’, we don’t mean the actual inventory or instances of assets you have in your…
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Choosing a DCIM Software: The Devil is in the Details
By Jan Durnhofer - August 23, 2019There’s a saying that goes, ‘the best marketer always wins’. And, if you think about it, this kinda makes sense. Why, exactly? Well…if you’re buying software such as data center infrastructure management software (DCIM), you typically don’t really get into the details of a software until after you’ve actually bought it. If the best marketer…
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netTerrain mobile app developed using the REST API
By Jan Durnhofer - July 16, 2019In a previous blog, we discussed how a couple of customers had developed their own mobile apps for netTerrain DCIM. One of these customers, Acciona Energía (a global renewable energy provider from Pamplona, Spain) presented their results at our annual users summit (the summit took place between May 13th and 15th at the Bolger Center…
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Wanna excel academically? Use netTerrain DCIM!
By Jan Durnhofer - July 15, 2019At our recent users summit, one of our customers and a partner announced they had developed their own flavor of a mobile app for netTerrain DCIM. We will dig deeper into these implementations but, to briefly summarize: using our REST API , these customers developed a mobile app in which a user can scan devices…
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Is this the best DCIM implementation ever?
By Jan Durnhofer - July 11, 2019During our users summit this past May, we uncovered some truly fantastic projects from our customers. Over the course of the 3-day event, we saw great examples of automation using our API, we discussed some cool fiber plant deployments, touched upon CFD (computational fluid dynamics) integrations with netTerrain, but one project was, truly, the absolute…
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“netTerrain DCIM Won Fair and Square.”
By Jan Durnhofer - July 10, 2019I recently had the pleasure of catching up with Javier Iriarte, Communications Manager at Acciona Energy, for a quick interview right after our users summit. Acciona Energía, a global supplier of clean energy based out of Pamplona, Spain, started using netTerrain DCIM recently and we have to say that the results are nothing short of…
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Make Your CA Spectrum Diagrams Sing
By Jan Durnhofer - June 17, 2019I remember way back in my Concord (and later when I worked for CA) days: I took a liking to the recently acquired Spectrum network discovery software (this was probably around 2004 or 2005). Spectrum was one of the first tools that I remember was capable of bringing in link data from an SNMP discovery…
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