Ni2 Design Center

Asset Design
Provides tools to design IT assets while leveraging business rules to organize them based on their location. It allows querying the Configuration Center for IT assets such as equipment, software and applications from a location or containership perspective. It also includes functions to manipulate maps and other representation views for a better understanding of asset positioning, as well as schematically and spatially search for them.

Data Center Design
Offers tools specifically designed to optimize data center containership. It helps manage everything from floor plans and rack capacity, to card positioning in chassis, to chassis in racks. It also offers management of ports, devices and physical elements such as power and cooling. It generates reports on data center environmental characteristics such as power load and weight. This application is essential to plan change in the data center.

Structure Design
Delivers powerful outside-plant connectivity modeling capability. Whether users are constructing conduits between a vast array of offices spanning a continent, or deploying trunk cables between buildings in a campus environment, the spatially enabled environment offered by N(i)² can help IT infrastructure managers optimize their design and reduce risk related to distance, capacity, and cost.

Physical Connectivity Design
Provides data center managers tools to design physical connections between devices. It also conveys the information required to assess how resources connected to the network could be affected by problems or change. In conjunction with the N(i)² Configuration Center, this module also gives managers information on how physical connections can impact on services or business.

Logical Connectivity Design
Offers the ideal tools to manage logical connections in multiple locations while alleviating the complex challenges behind Layer 1 and 2 connectivity modeling. This module is designed to help service providers gain better visibility and control over a Wide Area Network (WAN). Built on generic engineering rules that can be applied to any technology (ATM, SDH, PDH, Frame Relay) it offers service providers tools to visualize how services are built on top of logical connections between sites.

Network Design
Focused on IP design including subnets, hosts, DHCP and IP addresses, the Network Design module is the ideal tool for modeling an organization’s Layer 3 network. This module uses pre-built engineering rules to facilitate the design of subnets and to handle IP addressing. By mapping and modeling a network to the Configuration Center, IP address conflicts and network connectivity incidents are easily tracked. Knowing who’s impacted by a failure or which networks are implicated helps IT managers gain better visibility and control over the network.

Service Design
Offers all the features to model and report on business services, allocation to users and their dependencies to the underlying IT infrastructure. Get multi-contextualized views on all data pertaining to the IT services your organization delivers to both internal and external consumers (human resources, companies, organizations, etc.)

Organization Design
Delivers all the features to model the enterprise human organization, complete with roles and their relations to the IT services and infrastructure. Users can create and add organizations and human resources to the N(i)² Configuration Center, and define relationships between them. This allows a contextualized understanding of the human resources, or of contacts in third-party organizations, if desired.