Online and Offline Mobility

A very unique tool from Cormant-CS is the ability to make the changes on the run, with the user of Hand Held barcode scanners.

Unlike our competitors, almost anything can be modified with the Android, Windows Mobile or Bluetooth scanners. This includes details of devices (attributes), MAC work, Rack Layouts and full connectivity.

Changes to your infrastructure can be recorded where and when they happen. Changes are performed LIVE on the database when the scanners are used in ONLINE mode, or they changes can be recorded OFFLINE, and once the details have been recorded, the hand held can be synchronised with the main database either via a docking station (ethernet), 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.

Additional tools such as Auditing and Reporting fully enable your staff to have the power at their fingertips.

Barcode Scanning

Barcode technology is used in nearly every industry Worldwide for several reasons. The main reason is the accuracy of the data that is captured. Secondly, the ease at which the data can be captured ensures that productivity is maximised within any organisation.

Cormant-CS can read barcodes from a wide range of formats, 1 dimensional, 2 dimensional, code 128, Symbian etc.

Mobility Outside The Data Center

Cormant-CS supports many non-data center customers across the world, including universities, cities and the armed forces. Mobility for these customers can extend across a building, campus or a city.

Cormant mobility extends to managing conduits and their contents, vertical and horizontal pathways and intersection points as well as IT equipment of any type in any location.

Mobile Computing

In a world full of technology, it’s amazing that organisations are still utilising paper spreadsheets, or static floor plans to audit and record equipment moves.

Cormant-CS can utilise both Android and Windows Mobile computers with built in barcode scanning engines to capture all moves, adds and changes.

Organisations do not need to carry around a large laptop or netbook, with the scanners resembling a large mobile phone (actually, some have the ability to be utilised as a mobile phone and GPS receiver as well).

Graphical Floorplans

The burden on training new staff members to the locations of various departments or staff’s locations can not only take time, but ultimately costs the firm money in downtime (both for the IT staff member, but also the users who’s equipment is not working).

Cormant-CS has the ability to import floor plans for each and every level in your organisation, highlighting the ‘function’ areas for your departments, and also the equipment for individual users.

Imagine the money saved by simply being able to search for a user’s PC’s id, or barcode, then clicking on the linked floor plan and having the directions in the palm of your hand.

One-Click connectivity details

There is a perception in many organisations that most outages are either caused by the ‘cabling’, or by ‘network issues’. The facts however, don’t support this, but this is normally where the search for a ‘server outage’ is started.

Cormant-CS greatly reduces the time to resolve these outages by allowing cabling/networking staff to show end-to-end connectivity of the server connections, including fibre, copper, power and KVM.

With the ability to quickly scan any of the patch cables connected to a server, uses are able to quickly determine if the cables are still connected, if they are connected to the correct switch port, or if a change has taken place.

Moves, Adds & Changes on the Fly

Imagine being able to capture a Move of a server between two racks as and when it happens.

Or, the moving of a user’s pc equipment (phone, monitor etc) by just scanning the barcodes of each piece of equipment, then scanning the barcode of the destination work space.

Cormant-CS has built in functions to assist in these processes, replicating the ‘human’ way that these moves take place today.

How does portability help my organisation?

Reduce Outage Time

Greatly reduced time to fault find potential cable related outages by eliminating the tug-n-trace method.

Reduce MAC Times

Decrease MAC times dramatically, resulting in revenue savings.

Connectivity Tracking

Track changes to the cabling infrastructure where and when they happen.

Up-to-Date Documentation

Ensure documentation is updated where and when the changes happens.