Accurate information about your power and network connectivity.
Understanding connectivity provides value on many levels, especially when it can be seen and managed across your entire physical infrastructure – from the data center to the IT and building/facilities systems distributed across the whole of the enterprise.
The iTRACS CPIM™ platform understands that connectivity is borderless and offers a unique in-context view using 3D visualization – unified, dynamic, and real-time – that shows you how all of your devices are connected and interrelated. CPIM software understands and gives you a complete picture of:
- How all the physical infrastructure in your data center – and elsewhere across the organization – fits together
- Their interdependencies in terms of power and network connectivity – how a change in one asset ripples across the entire infrastructure
- How connectivity issues in the physical layer impact your business applications (the logical layer)
iTRACS: The visibility you need to succeed.
With CPIM data center infrastructure management software, you can see all aspects of connectivity – from the jack to the patch panel and to the switch – with all points along the route identified. iTRACS can visually depict not just a data point but its relationship to all other data points in the infrastructure. So you not only see each data center asset, but you see its relationships to all other IT assets:
Power: You can track power from the transformer on the street all the way through the data center to each row, each cabinet, each rack, and right to each individual device.
Network: You can follow each network link from an individual port on an individual server as it weaves its way through the infrastructure.
And CPIM shows you all of this with rich 3D visuals that leave no room for misunderstandings or misinterpretations as to what is happening. With this level of visibility, you can detect connectivity issues and resolve them before they become problems – it’s right there in pictures, literally in front of you.
For example, if equipment fails somewhere in your physical infrastructure, it can turn into a catastrophic failure if you don’t have the connectivity information you need to troubleshoot and resolve the problem quickly. Having up-to-date connectivity information at your fingertips reduces downtime by decreasing the amount of time spent troubleshooting and solving problems related to equipment or service issues.
CPIM software also helps speed deployment of assets and their retrieval when they are due to be decommissioned. Having accurate connectivity information helps you utilize your existing resources more efficiently, reducing the need to buy additional assets and reducing your IT spend.
Having access to rich, robust, 100% accurate connectivity documentation is vital in fast-changing infrastructures where new initiatives like virtualization and green data center are being implemented. The good news? iTRACS CPIM can easily track your Moves, Adds, and Changes (MAC) processes, ensuring that your connectivity information remains 100% up-to-date and no connectivity data is “lost” in transition.
