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The Raritan dcTrack is a data center
infrastructure management (DCIM) solution providing
powerful and intelligent tools for data center
automation. dcTrack has been designed from the
ground up by data center professionals to provide
broad and deep visibility into the data center. It
empowers data center managers to plan for growth and
change by optimizing their current operations,
assets and infrastructure. dcTrack enables
data center managers to maintain accurate views
across the entire data center – from servers,
blades, virtual servers and applications, to data
networks, IP addressing space and cabling, to
real-time views of power consumption and heat
dissipation, to raised floor space and rack
elevations. Isolating potential problems is fast
and easy with dcTrack. End-to-end power and data
circuits can be visually and accurately traced while
identifying all intermediate circuit points.
dcTrack offers a feature-rich, easy-to-use and
intuitive user interface loaded with visualization
tools. Significant design effort was directed
towards ensuring that all inter-related tasks are
executed from a single screen. Built-in
intelligence, rules and automation of common tasks
greatly enhance the user experience, thus reducing
user workload.
A sampling of dcTrack Screenshots:
Visualize Floor Map
The data center floor map is linked in real
time to the AutoCAD floor plan. Any changes
made to the CAD background are immediately
visible and recognized as new objects in
dcTrack. dcTrack users can define their own
custom views for quick access to their
resources. A management dashboard offers
several color-coded charts to easily view
heat and power load distributions as well as
data network and cabinet resources
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Visualize Cabinet
Elevations
dcTrack provides a quick and simple method
for data center managers to visualize a
group of cabinet elevations on a single
screen. Cabinets can be grouped by physical
adjacencies such as data center rows or
logical groupings based on cabinet content.
With another click, the elevation views can
be changed to front, rear or descriptive
text views. Whether viewing the cabinet row
from the front or rear, the cabinet left to
right order can be set to match actual order
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Visualize Item and Port
Trace
Once the cabinet elevation is visualized,
dcTrack provides extensive views to drill
down on item and port details. By simply
clicking on an item in the cabinet view, a
detailed image of the item is presented
depicting all ports with dynamic labels.
This image can be changed to front or rear
views with a single click. The end-to-end
circuit map of a port is visualized by
clicking on a port label for further drill
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Data Center Visualization
- Visualize AutoCAD floor plan drawings in
real time without the need for an AutoCAD
license or software. Changes made to AutoCAD
floor plans are immediately visible in dcTrack
- Visualize color-coded floor plans that
summarize low, medium and high utilizations of
key data center attributes such as heat
dissipation, power usage, weight and rack
mounting space
- Navigate interactive hyperlinked drawings
for deep visibility of floor space, cabinet
front and rear elevations, device images and
ports
- Drag and drop network and power port labels
on the front and rear images of items to depict
their exact physical locations
- Visualize relationships and dependencies
between user departments, applications, PDUs,
cabinets, servers and networks
- Visualize a group of cabinet elevations
based on physical or logical groupings
- Visualize end-to-end power and network
circuit maps including all intermediate circuit
points
- Visualize PDU and RPP circuit breaker
panels. The breakers are hyperlinked to trace
the entire circuit downstream identifying all
connected items
- Use an extensive visual library of items and
connectors depicting equipment front and rear
views and attributes such as rack units and
weight. Easily add to library by importing
manufacturers’ free Visio® stencils
Multi Data Center Support
- Manage multiple data center sites regardless
of their geographic locations
- Store all sites in one ODBC-compliant,
scalable SQL server database
Data Center Asset Management
- Track financial asset information including
purchase date, purchase price, department cost
center, asset tag and maintenance contracts
- Track physical asset information including
rack units, dimensions, weight, manufacturer,
model and serial number
- Track logical asset information including
function, operating system, administrators and
user departments
IP and Network Management
- Manage logical relationships and connections
between servers and network switches based on IP
subnet addresses
- Define subnets using an intelligent IP
address calculator that computes, among other
things, the number of hosts in a subnet based on
a subnet mask
- Identify VLAN, color code and subnet’s
physical location based on an IP address
- Manage VLANs by controlling the list of
subnets served by each switch
- Assign a new IP address automatically when a
server is being moved to a location served by a
different subnet
- Configure a server port with multiple
virtual IP addresses or implement port teaming
for two or more ports
- Manage network switches and ports whether
they are stackable or chassis form factor
Raritan's dcTrack Infrastructure Management
offers many more features. Call a 42U Sales
Consultant today to learn more!
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Raritan dcTrack the best Infrastructure Management
Software
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Raritan dcTrack
Infrastructure Management
The Raritan dcTrack offers many benefits:
- Reduce capital spending by optimizing
capacity planning and improve power
infrastructure provisioning
- Reduce and control energy costs with real-time
power usage monitoring and granular power usage
breakdown
- Prepare, plan and execute a data center
relocation project into a new facility with
confidence
- Reduce costs by visualizing the data center
floor and cabinet elevations remotely in a
lights-out operation
- Reduce costs by eliminating the need to
manually trace
circuits and connections
- Reduce costs by eliminating the need to run new
cables or add new equipment by easily identifying
unassigned connections and unused equipment ports
- Plan network, power and cooling requirements
by reviewing current loads and future trends
- Reduce the mean time to repair (MTTR) by
accelerating
the investigative process to identify the incident
cause.
Since about 80 percent of incident repair reflects
time to
track down and identify causes, dcTrack dramatically
reduces both time and costs
- Quickly identify user departments and
applications that are affected by a server
shutdown, a virus attack or a partial power
failure
- Control access to data center items by using a
robust
change management and work order system
- Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act and FDA
regulations; FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11
establishes stringent standards for data security,
data integrity and traceability
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