Avantex are the Australasian Master Distributor for Cormant-CS (formerly CableSolve), a powerful DCIM & Total Lifecycle Inventory Management tool.
By allowing attributes to be customised by our customers (details of each piece of equipment), Cormant-CS can be used to not only track the relevant details of every piece of equipment on site, but also its location, history of changes and locations where the equipment has been deployed though it’s life cycle.
Depending on your role in the organisation, you may or may not want to see all the cables in-between at chain of connections.
As an example, a server administrator may just want to find out what servers are connected to a particular switch. On the flip side, the cabling staff may want to see the full end-to-end connections for these servers.
CableSolve has a quick and intuitive way to help, with a simple click, users can specify how many ‘levels’ of connections they can see.
One of the most unique and useful tools in the Cormant-CS is the addition of Hand Held barcode scanners.
Changes to your infrastructure can be managed where and when they happen. Once the details have been updated, the hand held can be synchronised with the main database either via a docking station, or wirelessly.
With the addition of floor plans (that are identical to what is on the Cormant-CS desktop client, organisations can enable their staff to work much more efficiently.
To ensure that your staff knows what has happened to the inventory, Cormant-CS records all changes to the database.
Changes such as location, serial number, name, asset tag, barcode or any attribute will be recorded in the history tab.
The history includes the user who performed the change and also the date and the time. By simply clicking on the history tab, all the relevant details will be ‘filtered’ to only show for that particular component, greatly increasing the productivity.
The attributes for all of the equipment in your organisation can be ‘locked down’, so only the users with the correct permission can change their details.
Further, attributes can be made ‘invisible’ if certain groups or users are not supposed to be privy to the information (i.e. financial data).
As an example, the iLO2 username and password could be locked so that was only visible to the ‘server’ group of users. Furthermore, the ‘Purchase Order’ attribute could be locked so that only the accounts group could edit the contents, all others would only have Read Only access.
Any area of the Cormant-CS database can be ‘zoned’, to only allow users with the correct permission access to the relevant data
Zones can consists of entire countries, states, suburbs, floors, rooms, a rack, or even a single piece of equipment.
The Zone creation tool follows similar Microsoft security ‘group’ policies for ease of setup and maintenance.
Combining the Zone security with Attribute security, the entire database can be locked down to suit multiple functional and logical working groups, from enterprise wide firms, to single site locations.
Understand the physical location of all equipment.
Produce fast and accurate audits (for internal or external purposes).
Track changes to equipment, where and when they happen.
Reduce man-hours in locating where your equipment is located, or has been relocated from.
