A Crash Course in DCIM Software

A Crash Course in DCIM Software

By - July 16, 2018

DCIM: what is it, where did it come from, and what can you do with it? In this ‘crash course in DCIM’, we’ll look at the history of DCIM, what managers used before the software, if DCIM is delivering on its promises, and what, exactly, you can do with it. In the Beginning: Early Data…

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The OSI Model: Introduction

The OSI Model: Introduction

By - July 13, 2018

When it comes to things to be excited about in this world, learning about the Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI) probably ranks somewhere between Tacos Tuesday (very exciting) and yeah getting a tooth pulled (very painful). If you’re reading this, you’re probably not getting a tooth pulled — so hey: life is looking up for…

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Graphical Networks Announces Partnership with Siemon

Graphical Networks Announces Partnership with Siemon

By - July 11, 2018

After a search for the right data center hardware manufacturer with whom to partner, Graphical Networks is pleased to announce it has partnered with Siemon, a leading network infrastructure specialist. This partnership will afford Siemon’s customers the ability to manage, control, and document the data center. As an industry leader in network infrastructure, Siemon specializes…

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What is a Network Diagram?

What is a Network Diagram?

By - June 29, 2018

As a software vendor specializing in IT documentation, we get a decent amount of website visitors who find our site while searching for specific explanations of what, exactly, network diagrams are…so we figured: why not write about them in-depth… Learn the in’s and out’s of network diagrams: what they are, how they’re used, how to…

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Webinar Registration: Manage Your Inside & Outside Plant

By - June 25, 2018

To accomodate a variety of different time zones and schedules, we are offering this webinar at three different times. Choose the time that works the best for you! Manage Your Inside & Outside Plant Webinar – First Session: Time Zone: 10 AM Sydney 6/29 5 PM Los Angeles 6/28 8 PM New York City 6/28…

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Dashboards for DCIM, Outside Plant, and Network Mapping Software

Dashboards for DCIM, Outside Plant, and Network Mapping Software

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netTerrain Dashboards (also called reports) are collections of gadgets showing aggregated data from the netTerrain database. These dashboards are accessed from the netTerrain project with a simple click (as we will see below). Whether it’s for DCIM, network mapping and documentation, or outside plant dashboards offer a very powerful visual way of aggregating and displaying…

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What is DCIM? DCIM Software 101

What is DCIM? DCIM Software 101

By - June 15, 2018

DCIM, which stands for Data Center Infrastructure Management, gives data center managers a central repository from which they can manage their data centers’ assets, space, power, cabling, cooling, and downtime. DCIM makes managing the ever-expanding ecosystems in data centers less daunting: with DCIM software, cable and circuit outages can be traced and resolved, new equipment…

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How To: Network Diagrams with Visio & Spreadsheets

How To: Network Diagrams with Visio & Spreadsheets

By - June 12, 2018

If you’re a network engineer trying to manage the network — without automated network diagramming software — let me tip my hat to you: you’re probably better qualified than I am to write the introduction to this blog. Network engineers everywhere know, all too well, the pain of troubleshooting, fixing network outages and issues when…

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Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps: Importing KML / KMZ maps

Manage Your Outside Plant with Dynamic Maps: Importing KML / KMZ maps

By - June 8, 2018

In this blog, the 5th installment to our series on managing your outside plant with dynamic maps, we’ll show how you can bring existing outside plant data into netTerrain. If you already have outside plant data in Google Earth (or another tool that supports exports to KML or KMZ formats), you can leverage this data…

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Automagic Calculations for DCIM, OSP, and Network Mapping

Automagic Calculations for DCIM, OSP, and Network Mapping

By - June 7, 2018

In this blog on automatic calculations (using our DCIM, outside plant, and network diagramming software), we’ll review what we call ‘expressions’ in netTerrain. Expressions are functions you can create in netTerrain using transact SQL to compute or aggregate any sort of scale or value — and retrieve it in a property. You may want to…

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The Totally Biased Guide to Documenting Your Network: What Can Be Documented?

The Totally Biased Guide to Documenting Your Network: What Can Be Documented?

By - June 5, 2018

Now that you’ve identified what it is that you actually need to document, let’s dive into the details….aka what does that look like in your brain? Imagine you have a crystal ball and look into the future: what does your documentation look like. By ‘future’ I mean that you should set a realistic timeline —…

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Manage Your Outside Plant: Tracing Circuits

Manage Your Outside Plant: Tracing Circuits

By - June 4, 2018

In this 4th segment (and video) of our series on managing your outside plant with dynamic maps, you will learn to trace a cable in our outside plant software netTerrain. In the previous segments in this OSP series, you learned how to: create a map in netTerrain OSP software, how to add objects to it…

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