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GAITHERSBURG, MD - Graphical Networks LLC, today announced the release of netTerrain (formerly myGIS) 2.8.
Graphical Networks netTerrain TM solution is a Data Center and IT Inventory Management solution that simplifies the visualization, management and documentation of the entire Enterprise IT landscape.
Some of the challenges that Graphical Networks solves include:
- Managing environmental capacity with less effort - space, rack, cooling, and power
- Simplifying the trouble shooting processes of your Data Center operations and reducing the Mean Time to Repair
- Streamlining the install, move, add, delete, and change processes for your IT infrastructure across multiple sites
- Improving impact analysis at the component, system, service and business levels
- Managing data center change controls with ITIL change management
- Reducing costs and improving resource management of assets
Some of the new features that are available to new users or customers upgrading from version 2.7 include:
- New Work Order Management, with the ability to:
- Create, update and track work orders
- Assign tasks to work orders, and associate tasks to IT resources
- Automatically notify assigned personnel when a new task or work order is assigned to them
- Track resources in planned stage ('network as-planned') and switch them to active when tasks are completed
- Visualize planned resources with color coded icons
- Report on current work orders and work orders that are due
- Filter work orders by date assigned, due date, category, assigned personnel, priority or status
- Create and track expenses for each work order
- Run an audit trail report to see the latest activity or a history of changes in the environment
- Integration and Importing
- Installer improvements for Integration tools
- Visualization, Usability and UI
- Ability to hide Hierarchy browser and properties window
- New Undo button (supporting 25 steps)
- Print button with option of printing full screen
- Ability to map devices to networks directly from the search results
- Ability to hide/show backgrounds 'on-the-fly'
- Other Visual Override Improvements
- Modeling
- Customizable Image Overrides for Generic Nodes through the UI (a user can specify how a node changes its image based on the value of any field)
- Customizable Visual Overrides (color and thickness) for Generic Links through the UI (a user can specify how a link changes its color or thickness based on the value of any field)
- Support for Inter Diagram Links and Reference Nodes with Generic Objects
- New comments object that can associated with any diagram
- Other
- Several audit trail improvements (reports, support for new objects, etc)
- Other minor improvements and fixes
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