Tag Archives: network mapping
Why Do You Need Flexible DCIM & Network Mapping Software?
By Jason Sherman - February 14, 2018netTerrain, an automated DCIM and network mapping software suite, adapts to your project…and its unique needs. Let me be clear: netTerrain adapts to your needs — without consultants, months of waiting time, an onboarding process that feels more like training for Mount Everest, and a bunch of extra expenditures you (and your boss) didn’t see…
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How Does Automatic Network Mapping Work?
By Jason Sherman - February 8, 2018SNMP is an old time workhorse of information. If you’ve been a network engineer for a while, the ability to automatically discover objects when you’re documenting the network can’t be overhyped. Automatic network mapping, on this level, significantly reduces your manual workload and ensures that your documentation is accurate and up-to-date. If you’re looking at…
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Songs To Listen To When You’re Documenting the Network
By Jason Sherman - February 1, 2018What’s the hands-down most important part of documenting the network? What you listen to. Sorry, you can’t document the network while watching Youtube cat videos….that’s a big no-no. You’ll end up with a fur ball network diagram (oh, I’m too funny — someone get me a job as a comedian). Seriously, though: what to listen…
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Intro: netTerrain’s API for DCIM, Network Documentation, and Outside Plant
By Jan Durnhofer - January 26, 2018Despite all the recent hoopla, API’s have been around for a long time. Without realizing it, we use API’s all the time: we use them when we make an airline reservation…we use them when we check the weather on our phones. API’s bridge together several moving parts to serve up a desired result to the…
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Connect & Automate Your Data Imports in Under 2 Minutes
By Jan Durnhofer - January 24, 2018Most DCIM or Network Mapping software gives users some discovery features — which we also do. That’s all nice and dandy…but it’s very limited: every time you want to ensure your data is up-to-date, you have to manually schedule a discovery. When you have data that’s frequently changing, this becomes a hassle. What if you…
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How to Start Documenting the Network
By Jason Sherman - December 19, 2017Considering some network documentation to make managing the network less of a headache? Whether you’re troubleshooting or planning, it’s nice to quickly get answers to your questions. If you are considering implementing documentation, one of the first questions you may have is: “do I need to start from scratch?” The short answer is: no. Chances…
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Get Application Insights with Network Documentation
By Jason Sherman - June 1, 2017Network documentation is a great thing. With it, you can gain a great deal of insight about your network. Network documentation gives you crucial insight into your network; Physical and logical diagrams help you answer key network questions, such as: ‘What’s the end point connection for this device?’ ‘How much space do I have left…
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GN Newsletter #6: netTerrain 6.5 Released
By Hannah Ash - September 14, 2015We’re well into 2015 by now, and it’s been a great year for Graphical Networks. We are pleased to announce that the newest version of netTerrain has been released:details are below. We are also planning to make an appearance at the upcoming Data Center World – it’s taking place right on our stomping grounds here…
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What Network Documentation is NOT
By Jan Durnhofer - October 14, 2014When it comes to network documentation I sometimes feel like justice Potter Stewart, referring to the threshold test for obscenity: “I know it when I see it”. Organizations come in many shapes and sizes, engineers can be very creative under tight budgets, and everybody has a different way of tackling a problem, so when you…
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The Importance of Having Detailed Network Diagrams
By Jan Durnhofer - September 18, 2014Ahh, the steady state life of your network documentation… Usually outdated, most of the times scattered across different uninspired drawings and Excel files to be found on the big kahoona file server (or maybe on that other folder thingy that was on the z: network drive) and always in your to-do-list, your network documentation has…
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