Visualization of a rack or cabinet
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Summary of Visualization of a rack or cabinet
Using the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, ServiceNow customers can graphically visualize datacenter racks or cabinets on a canvas. This visualization shows equipment and shelves loaded into front and rear accessible racks or cabinets, with items placed in their designated Rack Units. It provides a comprehensive view of rack utilization, power and weight allocation, equipment placement, and life-cycle stages.
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Key Features
- View KPIs for racks, including rack utilization, allocated power usage, and allocated weight usage, based on equipment model details. (Note: These KPIs apply only to racks.)
- Explore equipment types to optimize placement of routers, shelves, and other network infrastructure components.
- Toggle between front and rear views of racks or cabinets to get a full perspective.
- See reserved rack units and the users who reserved them.
- Access rack or cabinet models and create equipment directly from the rack or cabinet view.
- Perform lifecycle management tasks such as creating, editing, decommissioning, and deleting racks or cabinets.
- Navigate easily to rack, cabinet, or slot forms via the canvas or menu.
- View detailed equipment and shelf information, including total and occupied slots.
- Switch between default and dark view modes using user preferences for better visual experience.
Prerequisites
- Create or select an equipment holder model categorized as Equipment Rack or Cabinet Model to associate with racks or cabinets.
- Define rack slots by creating or selecting a relationship type "Rack/Cabinet to Rack/Cabinet Slot" in network model relationships.
- Create or select an inventory template that includes the rack or cabinet model.
Practical Usage
- Initiate rack or cabinet creation based on models and templates to reflect accurate slot configurations.
- Add, edit, move, or remove equipment or shelves within racks or cabinets through change requests from the Network Inventory Workspace.
- Manage rack or cabinet lifecycle activities seamlessly within the application to maintain up-to-date inventory visualization and status.
Using rack or cabinet visualization in the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, you can visualize a rack or cabinet in the canvas. Here you can observe the loading of equipment and shelves into the front and rear accessible racks or cabinets, with each item placed in its designated Rack Units.
Rack visualization overview
Rack or cabinet visualization is a graphical representation of a datacenter rack or cabinet used to store and organize all equipment.
The previous screenshot is an example of a rack. From the Overview tab of a rack or cabinet, you can:
- See the KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of a rack using rack utilization.Note:This KPI is only for racks.
- See the percentage of allocated power currently utilized by all equipment within the rack. This value is derived from the equipment model details. However, the actual power consumption might
vary.Note:This KPI is only for racks.
- See the percentage of allocated weight currently utilized by all equipment within the rack. This value is derived from
the equipment model details. However, the actual weight consumption might vary.Note:
- All rack capacities are calculated based on the capacity definition - rack capacity. To change the evaluation of the capacity, you can create a capacity definition and function. To learn more, see Configuring capacity management.
- This KPI is only for racks.
- Explore different equipment types to optimize the placement of routers, shelves, or other network infrastructure.
- See both the front and rear views of the rack or cabinet.
- See all the reserved units and reserved by which user.
- See the rack or cabinet and rack or cabinet models.
- Create equipment from a rack or cabinet view. To learn more, see Create a rack.
- Edit a rack. To learn more, see Edit rack.
- Edit a cabinet. To learn more, see Edit a cabinet.
- Add packs
- Decommission a rack or cabinet. To learn more, see Decommission an inventory record.
- Delete a rack or cabinet. To learn more, see Delete a record.
- Navigate to the rack/cabinets/slots form either from the canvas or the menu item.
- See life-cycle stage of equipment.
- See all the equipment and shelf details by selecting the info icon (
). - See the number of total and occupied slots available.
- Switch between the default and dark view using the preferences settings.
Pre-requisites
To instantiate the creation of a rack or cabinet, you must:
- Create or select a model in the equipment holder model with the Equipment Rack or Cabinet
Model categories to associate it with a rack or cabinet
respectively.
To learn more, see Create an equipment holder model.
- Create or select a relationship in the network model relationships with the Rack/Cabinet to
Rack/Cabinet Slot Relationship type to define the number of rack slots.
To learn more, see Define a network model relationship.
- Create or select a template
having the rack
or cabinet model in the inventory model
field.
To learn more, see Create an inventory template.
Visualize and manage a rack or cabinet
- Initiate the rack or cabinet creation based on the rack
or cabinet model, and rack
or cabinet slots based on the template. To learn more, see Create a change request from Network Inventory Workspace.Note:
- You can create a rack using Create a rack.
- You can create a cabinet using Create a cabinet.
- Add an equipment or shelf to a rack or
cabinet. To learn more, see Create a change request from Network Inventory Workspace.Note:You can also edit, add, move, and remove an equipment using Edit rack and Edit a cabinet.
- Remove an equipment or shelf from a rack
or cabinet.
To learn more, see Create a change request from Network Inventory Workspace.