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MORE THAN JUST A
DCIM & INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

CS DCIM Clients

MANAGING THE INFRASTRUCTURE

 

 

What’s wrong with my spreadsheets? Why are they not enough?

 

Because a set of disconnected spreadsheets are not a management tool. They don’t record historical data and are limited in their ability to assist with planning change. Usually, multiple spreadsheets are managed by various people or departments and are silos of data with little sharing. Instead, the goal should be a single repository of infrastructure data that everyone can use and where all changes are seen by everyone who has permission.

 

Security is obviously important and therefore Cormant-CS supports user roles with access down to attribute level; something else that’s hard to do with spreadsheets.

 

I have an existing site I’d like to get under control, can Cormant-CS help?

 

Yes, absolutely. With configurability, mobility and no special hardware to install, Cormant-CS is ideal for existing sites. Data can be imported from existing records and then audited against the live infrastructure to produce accurate, trusted records. Data can even be captured over time by your staff simply using the mobile computers daily.

 

How does Cormant-CS helps manage a data center?

 

Cormant-CS has features specific to data centers including rack elevations and birds eye views of the data center. All of this is data driven and, from within Cormant-CS provides historical data, planned work data and information about power, heat, connectivity and space utilization.

 

Because this information is accurate and trusted it is useful when troubleshooting and will interface with systems such as NMS applications to provide location and deployment information.

 

Cormant-CS is also used to verify equipment has been deployed correctly using verification attributes that show when equipment was verified as ready for live use as well as who verified it.

 

After equipment is deployed, related power and environmental data can be gathered to provide a complete infrastructure picture.

 

 

 

I have a large enterprise user base. How will Cormant-CS help me manage those users?

 

Cormant-CS can record building MDF/IDF locations, all equipment and connectivity, as well as distribution points that may be in floor locations. All desk and/or work-space equipment and even people/user data can be stored to ensure a complete picture of all assets is seen. This may include normally non connected devices such as Wi-Fi devices. When a user calls for support, having accurate asset data reduces support time and user frustration as support technicians have full information readily available.

 

How is Cormant-CS going to help in a campus environment?

 

Beyond the usual data center and work-area functionality Cormant-CS also supports conduits and ‘pits and pipes’ for campus environments so all inter-building data can be recorded and represented. This can even include GPS coordinates from GPS equipped mobile devices.

 

Nothing stands alone anymore. What API interfaces does Cormant-CS have?

 

Cormant-CS has a full read/write web services XML API. It provides secure access to all data. The Cormant-CS API is used as the sole access method for our own web and on-line mobile devices so you can be assured it is a real, robust working API.

 

I need to manage my power and data infrastructure, my assets; the ability to auto-query/discover devices, create and manage work-orders, see historical data and monitor in real-time. Which of those can Cormant-CS help with?

 

All of them! Cormant-CS is ideally suited to provide an holistic view of all of these items with its significant flexibility in set-up and configuration it’s possible to.

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