NetZoom

DataCenter Worker Solution that helps professionals design, diagram and document the physical infrastructure of networks and datacenters.

NetZoom is popular among hundreds of thousands of data center and network professionals who use it daily for IT asset management and who also use it as an Add-On to Microsoft Visio to create professional network designs, diagrams, rack elevations and floor layouts. NetZoom is offered as a renewable 12-month subscription service. This product fits the need of small data centers, data closets, server rooms, rack rooms, IT rooms and departmental IT rooms where fewer professionals may be engaged in managing various aspects of networks, racks, servers, A/V, security etc.

NetZoom - Features

NetZoom 9 is the perfect add-on software solution for Microsoft Visio, AutoCAD and other applications, which lets you create superior network, rack and data center design, diagrams, and documentation the simple way. At its core is the world's largest library of manufacturer-specific equipment shapes and Visio stencils for physical and logical network diagrams, along with this revolutionary set of features

• Device Configurator: Populate racks or configure servers
• RackBuilder: Diagram front and rear rack views simultaneously
• Data Center Wizard: Diagram data center floors and racks with ease
• Fast Search: Find shapes and Visio stencils fast, from over 3,500 manufacturers like Cisco, Dell, HP, Chatsworth, APC and more.
• Smart Update: Download the latest equipment updates from your favorite manufacturers and product lines within NetZoom
• Device Property Manager: Manage custom device properties across projects.
• NetZoom Stencils Web Service: Access the latest NetZoom shapes wherever you are with the new NetZoom Stencils Web Service.
• Host Applications: Use NetZoom 9 with Microsoft Visio or AutoCad 2007-2009

With dozens of new features, NetZoom 9 has your network diagramming needs covered. Use the sidebar menu to learn more.

Why Good Documentation Matters

Network diagramming and documentation is important for keeping your network infrastructure in tip-top shape and ensuring it can handle the ever-changing demands of your enterprise. It is vital for

• Optimizing network performance and maintaining continuity
• Effective project planning, troubleshooting, security and implementation
• Providing complete and detailed visibility of your network infrastructure, helpful in meeting compliance
• Reducing information loss between staff transitions and mergers and acquisitions
• Task sharing and meaningful team collaboration

NetZoom 9 is the perfect software solution for creating the network designs, diagrams and documentation critical to your network.

NetZoom features

NetZooms SmartShapes:

• Provide a realistic look and feel with multiple views for instant recognition.
• Tell you what modules go with a particular chassis.
• Display data ports, power ports, and equipment slots so you do things like connect components port-to-port and build switches and rack chassis systems.
• Provide information on dimensions, power requirements, energy properties, heat levels, and many other aspects you need to plan and design efficiently and effectively.
• Display equipment labels based on your preferences.
• Scale beautifully using manufacturer-specified dimensions.
• Show tool tips that label data ports and equipment slots.
• Link you to manufacturers websites for additional information.
• Are customizable within Microsoft Visio.

Three Pane Interface: Library, Configurator, and Properties
Powerfull three pane user interface to enable selection and configuration with ease.

• Library - Within the Library Pane you can perform searches, create cross references between equipment shapes, organize and collect equipment shapes by projects, and much more.
• Configurator - Quickly find all related cards and modules for a selected chassis, populate chassis with cards as well as racks with servers and other devices, and more.
• Properties - Add custom properties to equipment shapes, apply watermarks, upload user defined property set, and more

RackBuilder

• Expresss Racks
  Use NetZoom's Configurator to populate and store your racks in NetZoom. Simply drag and drop to get a fully populated rack in Micosoft Visio.
• Create Rack Diagrams in Visio the Fast and Easy Way
  NetZoom 9 brings increased productivity to every phase of the network design and diagramming process. Building multiple views of racks is very important to network professionals, but it can also be tedious and time-consuming. With its new RackBuilder, NetZoom does all the heavy lifting.
• Build Multiple Rack Views Simultaneously
  NetZoom's comprehensive library of IT and audio/video shapes features multiple views of racks, cabinets and rack-mountable components. As you build one view of a rack, NetZoom builds other views for you simultaneously in real-time. Drag a shape to your rack, move it around or swap it out for something else. No matter what you do, NetZoom stays in step with your moves. After using RackBuilder, you might even say that diagramming multiple rack views is fun. Well, that part is up to you. Either way, you win.
• Export Rack Data to Your Favorite Reporting Applications
  NetZoom lets you export rack diagram data to versatile XML files you can use in your favorite reporting applications.
• Use NetZoom's Visio Stencils for Your Rack Diagrams
  If you only need to diagram single rack views, or just prefer doing rack diagrams the (now) old-fashioned way, NetZoom has you covered. With the world's most comprehensive library of manufacturer-specific front and rear views for IT and AV hardware, NetZoom has every Visio stencil you need to create professional, high-quality rack diagrams.

Data Center Wizard

• Design Your Data Center Floor with Ease
  Along with NetZoom's new RackBuilder, diagramming your data center floor just got easier with NetZoom's new Data Center Wizard.
• Seeing the Whole Picture
  It is a perfect complement to Microsoft Visio, which offers convenient tools for setting your floor's shape and dimensions. Using the Data Center Wizard, NetZoom's palette offers a specialized view of all the racks and rack-mountable components to help you fill your floor up fast. Simply drag cabinets onto the drawing space and you are on your way. With top views unique to every rack, you can build your floor with a convenient "bird's eye view", letting you see the whole picture. From there, you can drill down and load each rack using NetZoom's RackBuilder,which can build front and rear views of a rack simultaneously in real-time. To save even more time, you can easily import racks you have already made with NetZoom into your data center diagram. As you build each rack, the Data Center Wizard helps you determine optimal spacing and lets you view cumulative data on:
  • Equipment
  • Heat, power and cooling properties
  • Equipment properties
  • Intra-rack connectivity
  • Device connectivity
  • Individual device properties
• Export Data Center Diagram Data to Your Favorite Reporting Applications
  NetZoom lets you export data from your floor diagrams to flexible XML files you can use in your favorite reporting applications.
• The Best Data Center Design and Diagram Software Solution for Visio
  NetZoom's Data Center Wizard lets you document your data center floor, every rack on your floor (front and rear views) and helps you track power and environmental properties with one seamless tool. No matter how large your data center is or how many racks you need to diagram, you can document it all the fast and easy way with NetZoom 9.

Device Property Manager

• Choose Shape Properties for Each Project
  If you work on multiple network design projects, NetZoom 9s Device Property Manager is your new best friend. You can create multiple projects to which you can apply different shape properties. You can use the properties that already come with NetZooms shapes, or use ones from your own database. Click on the checkboxes you want and youre ready to go.
• Add Your Databases to Apply Custom Properties
  Once you have created your different property sets, NetZoom easily imports your database of information. Whether you are a private consultant, a network administrator, or a third-party developer, applying custom properties to NetZoom shapes is another powerful way to tailor NetZoom to your documentation needs.

Smart Update

• Download the Shapes You Need
  You have your preferred manufacturers and preferred product lines. Wouldnt it be great if you could just keep up with their updates and not worry about bogging down your hard drive with updates to other product shapes you are unlikely to ever use? And on top of this, have a program that does this for you automatically?
• The Smart Way to Update
  NetZoom 9s Smart Update takes the guesswork and labor - out of staying up-to-date with the shapes and stencils from your preferred manufacturers. Staying current on what you care about is as easy as ever. Say goodbye to the days of manually checking for updates. And no more blanket updates that take up precious space on your workstation. With Smart Update, all you need to do is set your preferences with a few clicks and NetZoom 9 does the rest.

Cross Referencing for Integrators, Installers and Consultants

• The challenge for many network installers, integrators, and consultants is organizing the key pieces for quick reference.
  With NetZoom Cross Referencing, professionals now have a simple and effective tool for comparing network hardware from multiple manufacturers right inside NetZoom. Need to compare access hardware? Build a database of the equipment you want to compare, import it into NetZoom and you have an instant reference tool you can access with just one click.

Data Export

• Get the Information You Need
  Network diagrams provide a wealth of important information. They can tell you what components are in your network, what data and power ports are available on these components, how devices are configured and how everything is connected. This is powerful information for planning, managing and optimizing your network.
  It is even more powerful when you can take all of this information and use it in other applications to create reports for:
  • Bill of materials
  • Network assets
  • Wiring and cabling
  • Card/chassis configuration
  • Rack configuration
  • Network configuration
• Export Data to XML
  NetZoom makes it easy to export data from your Visio diagram to flexible XML files. Use popular applications like Access , Excel and Crystal Reports to create the reports you need. By clicking a few checkboxes, information from your network diagram is instantly available.

NetZoom Stencils Web Services

• Network Design Stencils: Whenever and Wherever You Need Them
  In designing and documenting networks, having the right network shapes and stencils at your fingertips makes your life easier. NetZoom subscribers can now access all the network stencils they need through the Microsoft Office Research task pane. Maybe you are putting together a presentation in PowerPoint or writing up a proposal in Word . You might be designing your network in Visio at a remote office. You need certain equipment images or need to gather technical specs about a new server. With NetZoom's web services, you can access stencils in NetZoom's comprehensive library in some of your favorite Office applications.
  • Your Complete Hub for Network Stencils Search from over 120,000 equipment shapes from over 3,500 manufacturers to design and diagram IT and audio/video networks. We offer stencils from Cisco, Dell, HP, APC, Chatsworth, IBM, Sun, and thousands of other manufacturers. Whether you are using Visio , PowerPoint , or Word , the information you need is right at your fingertips.
  • Custom Services for Subscribers In addition to offering equipment shapes and stencils of the highest quality, we create custom shapes and stencils at no additional charge to NetZoom subscribers, to meet all project needs.
• Two Great Web Services from NetZoom
  NetZoom lets you choose from two web services designed to meet your particular stencil needs.
• NetZoom Stencils Research Service
  This option is for users who want to use traditional Visio stencils, available in VSS files. We update our stencil collection regularly, so users can download the most up-to-date stencils anytime. How to Install NetZoom Stencils Research Service
• NetZoom Research Service
  This is the recommended option for users that prefer dynamic stencils. In contrast to using individual VSS files, NetZoom presents users with stencils that reflect their particular search criteria. These dynamic stencils bring the most up-to-date shapes and stencils with every search.
• NetZoom 9: Superior Network Diagrams Made Simple
  The core of NetZoom 9 is the world's largest collection of equipment shapes and stencils for Visio, each embedded with the information you depend on for managing your network. With additional enhancements like a new user interface, a revamped search engine, a device property manager, smart updates to shapes and stencils and integration with the Microsoft Office Research task pane, NetZoom 9 is an essential, industry-proven solution that lets you diagram and document networks without limits.

Watermark

• Instant identification
  For quick and easy identification, NetZoom 9 watermark feature makes it possible to add vivid labels or watermarks to equipment shapes in your network diagrams.
  Using NetZoom's full featured Watermark Wizard you can choose to create a text, image, or select a dynamic data property to use as your label or watermark.

Device Configurator

• Real World Approach to Chassis Configuration
  Within NetZoom's Device Configurator you can easily find all the compatible devices for equipment shapes, add devices to chassis, and then save the new configured device for later use. This brings added flexibility to your network documentation allowing you to capture all the details of you network in real to life diagrams.

New features and updates in version 9

• Re-designed Smart Update: Download specific manufacturer product lines, or your entire NetZoom library in one shot.
• Watermarks: Allows you to visually label equipment shapes for quick identification or instructions on equipment status for planning purposes or tracking.
• Configurator Pane: Populate entire racks or configure chassis slots with compatible cards or modules before moving it into your host application to represent their real life counterparts.
• Custom Properties: Easily add your own properties to the equipment shapes for the way you manage your data center infrastructure and assets.
• New User Interface: A more intuitive and user friendly interface that allows you to access all of the equipment information you need at your fingertips.
• Host Applications: Visio 2003/2007, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or AutoCAD 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 and more.

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NetZoom - System Requirements

To use NetZoom 9 and enjoy a simpler, more effective way for network diagramming and documentation, you need:

Hardware

• Intel Processor with minimum 500 MHz.
• 512 MB RAM or 1024 MB recommended.
• At least 1000 MB of available hard disk space, depending on your library selections. Optional installation files cache requires additional hard disk space.
• DVD drive if using Media Pack.

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, Windows XP with the latest Service Packs (SP2 or higher)
• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.5
• Service Packs available from Microsoft Corporation at www.microsoft.com.

Host Applications
NetZoom 9 works with the following host applications:

• Microsoft Visio 2003 or Visio 2007 (full functionality)
• Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007 (limited functionality)
• AutoCAD 2006, 2007, 2008 and AutoCAD 2009 (limited functionality)

Display Requirements
1024x768 or higher-resolution monitor.

Internet Connection
Internet functionality for features like Smart Update and Microsoft Office Research requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately); local or long-distance charges may apply; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later is recommended.