netTerrain is a Data Center and IT Inventory Management suite providing a single “visual pane of glass” of the entire Enterprise IT landscape.
Feeding from multiple sources and utilizing automated processes to map out the IT infrastructure, decision makers gain access to a set of real-time diagrams and reports that help reduce costs, improve service levels, mitigate risks and ultimately align IT investments with business objectives.
netTerrain is the only product in the market that addresses Data Center Infrastructure Management, IT Inventory Management and Outside Plant in one solution.
Get a birds-eye view of your Data Center
• Drill-down from Regions into Sites, Buildings, Floors and Rooms
• Use vector or raster format maps and auto-place objects on top
• Dynamic color-coding of locations based on any attribute
• Access “dashboard-style” diagram properties to access Data Center essentials in a few clicks
Benefit:
• Users improve operational efficiency by finding information faster (thanks to a simple navigation paradigm and a web-based interface)
• Administrators can rely on accurate information for the Data Center, correlating geophysical information with asset and personnel information
• Dashboard statistics help decision makers in the management of the Data Centers, by means of real-time actionable data visually available on a diagram
Smart Cabinet Management
netTerrain can manage Space, Power, Connectivity at the rack/cabinet level, including:
• Dynamic, color-coded displays of racks and cabinets by occupancy, power usage or any other attribute
• Automatic device placement and vendor specific icons
• Real-time statistics for cabinets and racks
• Filtering of information based on user-defined criteria
Benefit: 
Forget about the tedious manual task of placing equipment into racks, assigning icons by hand and filling out every piece of information by hand not knowing whether any of it is consistent. With netTerrain's advanced library you know that cabinet information is up-to-date, and reserved rack space is accounted for.
• Accurate diagrams lead to an overall cost reduction due to a decrease in contractor installation times
• An up-to-date inventory of racks and floor plans help Network operators and contractors recover stranded assets
Template-based device models
netTerrain is an automated and feature-rich device and cabinet modeler:
• When importing or creating device instances, all subcomponents (slots, ports, channels) are created automatically
• Users can manage the location, attributes and state of every device, slot, card or port in real-time
• With netTerrain’ device modeler users can create new device types in minutes
Benefit:
• Data-entry personnel reduce costs due to a reduction in documentation times
• Data analysts improve the operational efficiency of the company by relying on consistent information
Network and Topology Views
In netTerrain, users can create any type of Network with a few clicks. This is a useful feature for Network Managers. Once networks are created in netTerrain and devices mapped to them users can:
• Track all necessary device and link attributes
• Get real-time statistics for network topologies and its components
• Bridge the gap between the Physical Data Center view and the Network view by simply double – clicking on a device
Benefit:
• Network Operators can troubleshoot problems faster by understanding the topology and connectivity of the network. This results in service level improvements
• Engineers can improve capacity planning and optimize the overall design of the network. This reduces costs when making purchasing decisions
Application and System Views
Unique in the industry, netTerrain has the ability to combine application layer information and views with the underlying Data Center and Network infrastructure, thus providing an insight into the Business and the way it maps to the IT resources:
Benefit:
• Users can map the IT and the business and identify critical resources that impact operations more than others in the event of an outage.
• Operators can map vulnerabilities in device configuration and connectivity with applications
Cable and Circuit Management
End-to-end Data, Power and Circuit tracing are standard features in netTerrain:
• Create Data and Power connectivity views
• Create “what-if” scenarios for IT environment changes
• Retrieve the connectivity between two devices and all subcomponents in between
Benefit:
• Understand the impact of any power or data equipment outage by immediately retrieving what is connected to a certain element
• Reduce troubleshooting times and improve the Mean Time To Repair
Outside Plant
Most Networks span outside and beyond the Data Center. Today, companies would need to purchase two (or three) different tools to visualize the Data Center, the Inventory and the Outside Plant. With the new outside plant module, netTerrain users can:
• Visualize Manholes, Towers, Poles and other Outside Plant elements on map overlays
• Associate fiber and fiber strands with splices, ducts and conduits
• Trace connectivity port-to-port viewing the Inside and Outside Plant paths
With netTerrain users can also run Advanced Searches, Audit trails for regulatory compliance, create Custom reports and forecasts and much more...
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