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Procedure: 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 incorporate information about network connections in your inventory.

Procedure

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

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

• Use the Telecom Console to enter your telecom items into the database.
  • Create Equipment
  • Create Faceplates
  • Create Jacks for Faceplates
  • Create a Jack
  • Create a Patch Panel
  • Create Ports for Patch Panels
  • Create a Port
  • Create Ports for Equipment

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

  • Telecom Console: Overview
  • Filter Data
  • Select and View Assets in the Floor Plan

4. Use the tools of the Telecom Console to connect your telecom assets.
5. As needed for troubleshooting, moves, and new hires, look up connections using the trace and highlight features.
6. Maintain your telecom connections. As needed, add to the telecom inventory and update your connections.
   • Edit a Telecom Asset
   • Connect Telecom Items
   • Trace Telecom Items
   • View Assets in the Floor Plan
   • View Telecom Connections in the Floor Plan

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.

How the System Stores Connection Data

Two principles govern how the Telecom Console stores information about your network connections.

• First, connections always go up the telecom hierarchy, from the work area to the telecom area. For example, when you click the Connection button for a jack, you will see in the trace report that the connection goes from the jack, to a patch panel port. This convention holds for every connection you make in the console. Note that as you move up the telecom hierarchy, you can skip a level if you like.

• Second, cables connect termination points. A termination point is a jack or a port. A faceplate holds multiple jacks; a patch panel holds multiple ports. After you define jacks and ports in your background data, use these termination points to define connections among the assets in your telecom inventory.

See also:

Telecom Console: Overview

Planning your Connection Inventory