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Creating a Telecom Inventory and Modeling Connections

Your telecom inventory can model connections among the telecom assets in your building. Use the Telecom Console's tools to develop a telecom inventory and incorporate information about network connections in your inventory.

Procedure

Prerequisite: A facilities manager creates floor plans, a space inventory, and other background data. See Background Data - Facilities.

1. Determine your business needs and required level of detail. See:
   • Planning your Connection Inventory
   • Methods for Creating Telecom Inventory
2. Develop the telecom-specific background data.
3. Develop your telecom inventory with either, or a combination, of these methods:
   • Represent Equipment and Telecom Devices in CAD
     • Draw Equipment
     • Draw Faceplates
     • Draw Jacks
     • Draw Patch Panels

• Use the Telecom Console to enter your telecom items in the database, or edit items created from CAD.
  • Create Equipment
  • Create Faceplates
  • Automatically Create Jacks for Faceplates
  • Manually Create Jacks
  • Create Patch Panels
  • Automatically Create Ports for Patch Panels
  • Manually Create Ports
  • Automatically Create Ports for Equipment

  For information on how to work with the Telecom Console, see:

  • Telecom Console: Overview
  • Use the Telecom Console's Filter
  • Work with Floor Plans in the Telecom Console.
  • Query an Asset on the Floor Plan Drawing

4. Connect your telecom assets:
   • from the grid
   • from the floor plan
5. As needed for troubleshooting, moves, and new hires, look up assets and connections:
   • list telecom connections on forms
   • view telecom connections in the floor plan
   • highlight rooms with connections
6. Maintain your telecom connections. As needed, add to the telecom inventory and update your connections.

7. Optional: Periodically survey your physical inventory. At set times, say annually, travel through your site with a laptop to observe physical connections and update your electronic inventory of network connections.

For information on updating an Archibus Windows Client/Server Telecom Inventory for use with the Telecom Console, see Migrating Telecom Data Developed in Client/Server to Web Central