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JAYCOR Enterprise Solutions deliver key management services for the physical layer infrastructure, and balance and accelerate performance at the application layer. Watch this space to learn more about our PatchPro iPLM intelligent physical layer management, DCIM data center infrastructure management, snapt loadbalancer, web accelerator, and WAF solutions offerings.

Map, Track and Create Connections in Granular Detail with PatchPro®

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DCIM – Data Center Infrastructure Management

A Great Solution with a Strong IT Focus Versus Traditional DCIM

Patchpro® I – Infrastructure Connection Manager

Administer your facilities assets and power usage effectiveness, coupled with unprecedented visualization and access to your network architecture, connectivity, and components:

  • Visualize and access racks, inventory and free rack units
    • Front and rear, back and rear and side views

  • Visualize and work on multiple rows, racks, and pods

A Great Solution with a Strong IT Focus Versus Traditional DCIM

  • Add/subtract components – drag and drop servers, switches, PDU’s, SFP’s Patch panels and more from your component library
  • New components are saved to the database in real-time with the objects unique set of attributes

  • Visualize and connect/disconnect free and used ports on devices and patch panels
  • Green – free port
  • Red – connected port

  • Visualize Connections (GUI visually maps connections)
    • Patches between devices within the rack
    • Cross-connects between devices and cabinets
    • Front and Rear Connections
      • ‘View Connections’ quickly visually maps connections
        (Side A, B or A/B)

  • Mouse-hover over free ports to view its connection and the patch objects unique attributes

  • Select multiple objects and click ConnectView to map the selections connections
  • Easily export to Microsoft Visio or Excel

  • End-to-end connectivity literally ‘down to the wire’
    • ConnectView maps any object’s (PC, Server, Switch, cable, port etc.) path from start-to-finish in unprecedented detail

  • Create and visualize patches and cross-connects by clicking on and connecting free ports

  • MultiPatch allows users to create multiple patches between objects, manually or through a .csv (bulk) upload

  • Individual racks indicate
  • Total:
    • Energy consumption (W)
    • PDU’s connect via SNMP
    • Weight
    • Free rack units

RackView Object Search

  • Search all rack assets using any criteria within the entire facility
    • View the full tree of connectivity from the building down to the device
    • Quickly navigate to the object in RackView by right click or drag & drop into the window
  • RackView – planning mode
    • Design and build your DC and assign work orders to technicians, execute changes once confirmed

  • Colour indicators on the sides of objects within the rack indicate planned work and the present status
 

A Genius Tool for Effective Facilities Management – PatchPro®

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PatchPro® F – iPLM Infrastructure Physical Layer Management
Design, Build & Manage your Enterprise and Data Centre in Granular Detail

iPLM View

The iPLM View enables the user to access and visualize all objects, their attributes and cost centre’s within the entire facility:

  • All infrastructure (shown per floor)
    • Power distribution
      • DB Boards
      • Cabling, routes, and ducts
    • Ventilation ducts and CRAC Units
    • Cost Centre and PUE (real-time)
    • All other assets – offices/free space, PC’s, furniture

  • All network infrastructure and connectivity
    • Cabling, patch cords, wall-jacks, cable routes, and ducts
    • All connections from start-device through the network (point-to-point) to end-device

  • Cabinet/rack – real-time visualization of:
    • Dimensions (e.g. 800x1000x2000 42RU)
    • Free Rack Units
    • Sum of and Max BTU’s
    • Actual and Max Wattage
    • customize

  • Search (keywords) the object manager in granular detail for any criteria/objects within the entire facility
  • Quickly and easily navigate/zoom to the asset, view its connections and attributes

  • DC Managers create real-time design changes in planning mode and deploy work orders for execution.

How PatchPro® Works

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The key point is the Database

  • The Database sends all information / changes to the raphical user interface (GUI) through CADVANCE and or AutoCAD
  • The advantage of PatchPro is that you can manipulate the database by using the GUI which is quicker and easier
  • The Database and the GUI are connected. Objects changed on the system update in real-time

Key attributes of PatchPro® Software Solutions

Comprehensive technical functionality – both in the Facilities as well as in Data Centres.

  • Graphical User Interface’s (GUI) display:
  • Entire Facility & Multiple Site
  • Data Centre/s
  • Rack View/s
  • Open System (API) and database architecture

Empower your Data Centre Collocation Customers with PatchPro® Web

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Real-time Online Access to Hosted Infrastructure

PatchPro® Web application provides a collocation data centre’s clients access to their hosted infrastructure, online through a user-friendly web interface. An amazing tool for empowering DC customers to access and view their network infrastructure, servers and other devices. View free ports and rack units, create patch or cross-connects between devices and send workorders direct to the NOC.

The results:

  • Provide Visibility
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Empower Customers

Web Features

Front (and back) and rear (and back) views provide full visibility of all hosted infrastructure within the rack.

– user level access restricts collocations customers from accessing and viewing other customers infrastructure.

Side rack view provides visibility in ensuring no conflicting space requirements apply, when adding additional hardware components.

Visualize connections in granular detail:

– Connected/open ports (front and back) visually

– All connected devices

– Export to Excel/Visio

Customers manage their infrastructure and connectivity

– Components (Servers, switches, SFP’s)

– Create Connections (Patches & Cross-Connects)

Access unique attributes for all connected devices

Additional Benefits of PatchPro® SaaS

  • SaaS (Software as a service)
    • No capital investment in licensing, hardware, staff and training required to execute
    • Contract based on your scope of work and customized for your requirements and budget
  • Open API

Other Modules (Included)

  • PactchPro® F – Facilities Manager
    • Infrastructure physical Layer management (iPLM)
  • PatchPro®I – Infrastructure Connection Manager
    • Data Centre Infrastructure management (DCIM)
    • Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM)
  • PatchPro® SPM Web
    • Service Plan Manager/Asset Managment

 

Greg Pokroy

CEO – JAYCOR International

DCIM/AIM Webinar – 24th Jan 11AM SAST

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DCIM/AIM Software & Hardware Solution – Belden PatchPro®

24th January @ 11am SAST (South African Standard Time)

Join Wolfgang Schröder and Christos Birbilis from Belden to learn more about PatchPro®, Belden Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software and Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM) hardware solutions.

PatchPro®Infrastructure DCIM/AIM solution works with PatchPro® hardware to achieve transparency and accuracy in complex, demanding environments. Adapting to any environment – small businesses, large enterprises or sophisticated data centers – PatchPro®I modular architecture allows you to license only the components you need.

Licensing is based on concurrent users, allowing you to install the software on as many workstations as you like – and allows you to grow in the future. It can also be adapted to your specific requirements without programming or expensive consulting.

With PatchPro®, you can:

  • Monitor vital systems for early recognition of potential bottlenecks, such as hotspots, excessive power usage and other critical conditions that could impact business continuity
  • Minimize the effort required to prepare for assessments, delivering data and documents to auditors for a fast signoff
  • Extract business-critical, real-time data from your network and display it in tables, charts or combined dashboards
  • Make sure existing data center capacity is utilized before investing in an expansion
  • Support any topology (star, ring, bus or mashed network structures) or any voltage (low-, medium- or high-voltage [230 V, 400 V, 500 V])
  • Integrate air conditioning, alerting, fire and intrusion detection, facility management and IT server monitoring systems

More than 2150 Clients Worldwide

Core Business:

  • Development, Distribution and Services of, Technical Software (PatchPro® DCIM-AIM)“
  • Building Information Systems, “BIS”
  • Including Cable Management and IT-Network Planning & Documentation (DCIM / AIM)

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