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What is netTerrain?
netTerrain is a Data Center Infrastructure Management software that helps organizations automate and simplify the management of its entire IT infrastructure. netTerrain is also a visualization portal to the phsyical and logical network infrastructure. Be it networks, devices, cables, circuits or any Inside or Outside Plant objects, netTerrain automates the discovery, auditing, reporting and visualization of the entire IT landscape.
What type of information can be stored in netTerrain?
Organizations can manage and document all aspects of the physical and logical IT infrastructure. This includes the geophysical objects (such as Data Center Sites, office buildings, floors and rooms), Inside plant IT Configuration items (servers, network devices and all subcomponents), Outside plant objects (towers, antennas, manholes, conduits, splices, etc) and all relationships between these objects (cables, circuits and system or application relationships).
Configuration items can be associated with physical locations and cabinets, as well as logical elements such as networks, systems and applications.netTerrain can also document organizational data that impact the bottom line, such as customers, employees, contact information, vendors, etc.
Does netTerrain have an auto-discovery feature to capture data to populate data or audit the data in netTerrain?
netTerrain offers an auto-discovery system and built in integration Adapters to populate data into the database or can be used as an audit mechanism to validate data. The built-in adapters include:
- Solarwinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
- Ipswitch What’s Up Gold
- Castle Rock SNMPc
- Cisco config files import
- CA Unicenter Tng
- Concord eHealth
- Microsoft MOM
- HP Open View Operations
- CA Spectrum
- CA netViz Projects
For additional integrations, netTerrain offers a SQL connector that can speed up the process of building a custom integration to other third-party data sources.
What is graphTerrain?
graphTerrain is a web-based diagramming tool ideally suited for customers trying to migrate away from desktop, single-file, single-user tools like Visio or netViz to draw and document any items such as network maps, Enterprise Architecture, DoDAF views, workflows, and other general purpose drawings.It supports parent-to-child drill-downs, node and link types with customizable fields (up to 50 user defined fields per type), visual and graphic overrides, inter-diagram links and much more.
Do any of Graphical Networks' solutions require a 3rd party visualization tool?
netTerrain and graphTerrain both rely on our own built-in web visualization engine. It does not require any third party applications and just uses a standard web browser (IE, Firefox) to view and edit data.
What is the database that netTerrain and graphTerrain run on?
Both products reside on a MS SQL Enterprise or Express Database Server (2005 or 2008). Both products share the same database structure, so customers deciding to upgrade from graphTerrain to netTerrain can do so seamlessly.
How many named users can netTerrain or graphTerrain support?
netTerrain does not impose a limit on named users whereas graphTerrain's license model is based on the number of users that will edit the diagrams (see licensing). Both products allow for unlimited viewers.
How many concurrent users are supported?
Both netTerrain and graphTerrain support over 100 concurrent users.
What are the system requirements for Graphical Networks' products?
There are two components that are required: the database server and the client computers that will deploy the front-end application.
The database server requires SQL Server 2005 or 2008 and IIS (5.1 or better), as well as .NET framework 3.5.
How are the products priced?
netTerrain offers a very simple licensing schema that suits organizations of any size. The licensing is based on the number of devices inventoried (a router, a computer or a power strip count as 1 device). Cards, ports, other subcomponents, cables or any location information do not count as devices.
graphTerrain is priced per number of editors. Editors can create, delete and edit objects as well as run reports, audit trails, and update the catalog of objects. There are no restrictions on the number of read-only viewers.
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