CD & E Distribution (Europe)

1.	Multi-level modeling and visualization
	Create or import a multi-level datacenter (building, floor, zones, racks and more). Visualize your datacenter in multiple ways (such as by tenants, by type of devices, etc.) and even define your own criteria for visualization.
2.	Manage datacenter assets
	Racks, servers, UPS, cable managers, cables and other devices all constitute datacenter assets. Keeping track of these assets and accounting for them by their role, value, warranty, power, space, and other attributes is a very important exercise in datacenter infrastructure management.
3.	Find assets in datacenter
	Once a device is added to a datacenter, it is often located for servicing, replacement, moving, or even decommission. Now you can find any device in a datacenter or a sub location using any of the properties or associated attributes.
4.	Find and replace devices in datacenter
	Find and replace automates the task of replacing an outdated device with a newer model in a sub location or entire datacenter.
5.	Locate available rack space for a new device in your datacenter
	When a new server is to be mounted in a rack, it could be time consuming to find an appropriate rack with available power and rack space. Define your criteria to locate all racks that match the requirement and offer all suitable choices.
6.	Manage port-to-port connectivity
	Connect and view multi level connectivity between different ports and generate full connectivity reports.
7.	Manage power, heat, weight, and space capacity
	Managing capacity is vital to maximizing ROI in a datacenter. Dozens of sophisticated, yet simple to use formula based properties do the work of computing capacity calculations. Hundreds of built-in functions similar to those in Microsoft Excel are implemented for this purpose.
8.	Manage decommissioned or unused devices
	Once a device is in datacenter it is accounted for its entire life span. Commissioned and decommissioned devices are accounted for automatically.
9.	Manage tenants and generate chargeback reports
	Manage tenant or department wide usage of datacenter infrastructure to easily generate chargeback reports.
10.	Plan, change management and work orders
	Plan and change management go hand in hand. Now you can create, edit, and execute any number of future plans for moves, adds, changes, or transfers, and Plan Management provides conflict reports and offers work orders on demand.
11.	Resource management
	Installation notes, user guides, drivers, and firmware are just a few examples of soft resources maintained for a device. These soft resources follow the device and are just a click away when needed.
12.	Historical device and maintenance log
	Devices maintain their own history and maintenance record log for the entire life; now you know where a device has been and what maintenance has been performed.
13.	Trending and forecasting
	Simply schedule logs for capacity data and generate trends and forecasts in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
14.	What-if analysis
	Plan and perform what-if analysis.
15.	Customizable operation and management reporting
	Choose from hundreds of templates available, or quickly customize or create your own report templates in Word, Excel, Visio, or SQL reports.
16.	Customizable dashboards
	Dashboards provide live capacity monitoring of your datacenter site. Use or customize one of the existing dashboard templates, or create your own template.
17.	Customizable floor layouts and rack elevations templates
	Choose from dozens of templates available or quickly customize or create your own templates in Visio.
18.	Customize device chassis
	Configure racks by adding rack mountable devices or configure chassis by adding cards or modules to match real-life counter parts.
19.	Customizable watermarks
	A watermark on a device instantly identifies the device and its purpose; you can choose from dozens of predefined watermarks or create your own by choosing a device property or a graphic to be used.
20.	Automatically generate floor & plan view layouts and rack elevations
	Automatically create your floor layouts, or front and rear views of rack elevations, reducing the need to drag and drop to manually create diagrams.
21.	Automatically generate reports, diagrams, and labels
	Now your reports, diagrams, and labels are just a click away.
22.	Implementation through automation
	Prototyping to implementation can be a long journey without automation; Automate every step of the way to speed up the implementation process by importing existing Visio diagrams and Excel worksheets to create multi-level hierarchies, rack elevations and port-to-port connectivity.
23.	Power and data tracing for troubleshooting
	You have the ability to view power and data connectivity all the way to the source, or connectivity between devices.
24.	Advanced role based security
	Securing and controlling the operations within a large datacenter is another vital aspect of a successful Datacenter management. Roles and privileges are assigned to each user giving the datacenter manager complete control over the application, devices and data levels.
25.	No limits on racks or devices in a datacenter
	Create and manage any number of racks, devices, ports, and connectivity in your datacenter.
26.	No limits on datacenter locations
	Create and manage any number of datacenter locations.
27.	Powered by the world's largest and most up-to-date device library
	The NetZoom device library, which includes over 150,000 devices and data from more than 4000 popular hardware manufacturers from around the world, powers the application. Our powerful search engine makes it quick and easy to search for a required device or stencil, and Smart Update keeps your device library in sync with the latest product releases available on a daily basis.
28.	Customize data properties
	Choose from hundreds of predefined data properties or add your own properties.
29.	Manage simple and formula based properties
	Formula based properties are computed properties; the application offers commonly used properties (Manufacturer, Model, Dimension, Power, and Weight) and property values which are computed based on underlying formula expression composed using other properties as variables and variety of arithmetic, relational and logical operators similar to those in a spreadsheet.
30.	Open schema for integration with other applications
	The application stores and manages datacenter sites in SQL Server Database for easy integration with other applications