IT Advisor for Colo desktop client

Colocation features are now included in the base version of the IT Advisor desktop client.

Tenant Billing

The open system integrates tenant billing information into the application for mapping tenant assets, providing detailed power draw, total energy footprint and access to an instant impact analysis at the tenant level.

Assigning rooms, cages, or racks to customers

Prerequisite: Before you can assign a part of the infrastructure to customers, these customers must already exist in the system through integration with a CRM application. 

1. Right-click any room, floor equipment (including racks), or rack-mountable equipment in a Navigation pane, or Layout pane and select Properties to access and edit the Customer properties.
   1. Search or choose a customer from the drop-down menu.
      You cannot add new customers in the Properties dialog box as customer data is obtained through integration with a CRM application.
   2. In Contracted power specify the amount of power sold to the customer, or choose Reserved for a potential customer to reserve equipment or space for a customer (you can add contracted power for potential customers as well).

When a customer has been assigned to equipment, the equipment will change color in the floor layout Colo overlay to indicate if it is reserved or closed. More...

Reporting Capabilities

• Space report

  Instant overview of current space capacities, identifying the sellable, occupied and reserved space, as well as space identified as used internally.

• Power report

  Outlines the total capacity vs. the sold capacity and measured load per site for a complete overview of current power capacities.

• Power receptacle report

  Highlights the current status of plugs and sockets for one or more PDUs or tenants, including an indication of oversubscription.

• Tenant inventory report

  Shows all equipment associated with one tenant, for an instant tenant inventory.

More information on working with reports.