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Bethesda, MD - Graphical Networks LLC, today announced the release of netTerrain 2.9.
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 2.8 include:
- Integration and Importing
- New VMware integration to automatically import host and VM image information into netTerrain
- CA Concord eHealth integration that automatically imports element information into netTerrain
- New CA Unicenter Tng integration to automatically bring node information into netTerrain
- Major improvements for netViz imports (support for positions, icons, backgrounds, and single click imports)
- Microsoft MOM integration to bring server data into netTerrain
- Enhanced Integration Toolkit creator to tie netTerrain device data into data sources not part of the default list
- Excel import now supports more entities (networks, circuits, cards, among other entities)
- Button to export Diagrams to Power Point from the browser
- Visualization, Usability and UI
- Objects can now be deleted from search results
- Ability to edit text fields directly from the web visualization
- Flag to enable/disable field visibility on visualization engine
- Flag to enable/disable field editing for selected inspector fields
- New blinking indicator when user goes up one level on diagram
- Displayed field fonts, colors and offsets now configurable through UI
- Double click on occupied ports yields user to other endpoint with port blinking
- Search
- Ability to search the entire inventory database from the browser (previously the search was only available from the client)
- Ability to search by entity from the browser
- 'Feeling lucky' searches (ability to decorate the search url with a result ordinal that redirects user to the appropriate diagram, for instance the first available result)
- Modeling
- Ability to create nested network hierarchies
- New direct Network to Network link type (also supported by excel bulk import)
- Comments and documents can now be added from the browser
- Security, API and other improvements
- Authentication for web users now supports all types of roles
- Authentication now uses a more robust 160 bit one-way hash encryption algorithm with 'password-free' persistence
- API support for node blinking
- Networks can now force a graph layout on diagram reloading with configurable flag
- Other minor improvements and fixes
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