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Equipment Assets Console task for Inventorying Telecom Equipment (Asset Portal application)

Many sites do not inventory the complete horizontal cabling system; inventorying just the work area equipment and jacks can provide a good starting point and valuable time-saving information. With just these components, you have a means of  recording your equipment, employees, extensions and software; that is to say, a catalog of the items you own and their disposition. This basic inventory has all the information you need for managing moves, servicing equipment through work orders, and querying the database for information such as Internet address, node name, employee assignment, and jack number.

From the Equipment Assets console, you can add or edit information for office and telecom equipment that is associated with a room asset in a CAD floor plan drawing.

Equipment Assets Console

Location

Archibus non-SaaS:

  • Assets / Asset Portal / Equipment

Business Result

Faceplate and jack electronic inventory and CAD plans with detailed technical information about each item.

Elimination of unnecessary jack and faceplate installation because you have an inventory of current use and capacity.

Improved space use and reduction in unnecessary jack installations because you can match employee's needs to a workstation with existing services.

Used By

IT Managers

Facilities Managers

CAD Specialists

Reasons for Automating

Maintain an accurate alphanumeric faceplate and jack inventory, and optionally CAD jack and faceplate plans, which is stored in a central repository available to key stakeholders over a corporate network or Intranet.

Develop key telecom inventory data which can be accessed by move managers and maintenance managers in planning their work.

Automatically generate jacks and number them according to their faceplates.

Prerequisite Applications

Space Inventory (specified to the room level)

Results/Reports

 

Jacks by Room report

Equipment Plan

Jack Plans

Applications Using the Results of this Application

Moves

The following are typical users:

User

Tasks

Facility Manager

Access jack and faceplate inventory for moves and maintenance.

IT Manager

Maintain and review horizontal cabling inventory and plans.

CAD Specialist

Add jacks and faceplates to CAD floor plan drawings.

See Also

Equipment Assets Console task