AssetGen News Page

AssetGen features at Square Mile Seminar
28th May 2010

AsetGen applications will feature at the free half day seminar 'Automating Visio Infrastructure Diagrams' to be held on 28th May 2009 at Microsoft offices in London. For full details see http://www.squaremilesystems.com/n_seminars.html

AssetGen at Data Centre World - London
23rd & 24th February 2010

See the full AssetGen range on stand 166 at Data Centre World in London. For details see www.datacentreworld.com - registration is free!

New Webinars Page
21st January 2010

See our new Webinars page and view the Brightalk webcasts made by our prime reseller, Square Mile Systems.

AssetGen Planner features at Square Mile Seminar
18th November 2009

AsetGen Planner will feature at the free half day seminars 'Automating Visio Infrastructure Diagrams' to be held on 18th November 2009 (Cirencester) and 8th December 2009 (London). For full details see http://www.squaremilesystems.com/n_seminars.html

Videos Launched
23rd October 2009

A set of short videos demonstrating some of the capabilities of the AssetGen products are now available. Click the Videos button on the menu. The videos are also available at www.youtube.com - search for 'AssetGen'

AssetGen Version 3 Released
1st September 2009

All products enhanced for Microsoft .Net Framework V3.5 and Crystal Reports 2008.

AssetGen Connect and SysMap Web now support scrollable and sortable gris lists. Passwords have a new option to enforce 'strong' variants and users can now change their own.

AssetGen Planner now allows selection of different Viso templates. Rack drawings display attribute overlays (cabinets & equipnet) via a left mouse click. Layout drawing updates now add new rooms if required and Network Topology drawings now have an option to trace ports reserved by Work Orders.

AssetGen SysMap now highlights shapes that are no longer present in the database when updating existing Visio drawings.

New White Paper
15th June 2009

A new white paper - Linking Data Center Management to Power Monitoring Systems - has been added to the Knowledgebase

New White Paper
28th April 2009

A new white paper - The Cost and Management Benefits of Documenting Infrastructure Connectivity - has been added to the Knowledgebase

Product Enhancements
23rd February 2009

AssetGen announce the release of enhanced products:

AssetGen Planner - now supports the ability to include front panel equipment images in cabinet drawings using any 3rd party image libraries. Cabinet shape data on the Visio drawing can now include totalling of any numeric equipment attribute data allowing, for example, summing of various power data.

AssetGen Connect - Improved port naming and formatting. New port status report. Enhanced equipment to CI data map process for interface to AssetGen SysMap. Equipment records can now hold image file name for cabinet drawing inPlanner, plus a map between equipment types and Visio stencil master shape names.

AssetGen SysMap - New batch impact analysis function. This provides the ability to select a list of configuration items (CIs) by means of multiple CI and attribute filters and pass this list to the manin navigation engine to produce a list of affected or dependant CIs.

AssetGen Utilities - Enhance attribute import now allows attributes to be imported at all levels of the AssetGen Connect hierarchy (Site/Building/Location/Cabinet/Equipment).

Planning and Managing Change in Data Centres - Square Mile Systems Seminar - 28th November 2008
9th October 2008

The AssetGen range will be featured at the next Square Mile Systems seminar in November. Click here for full details and registration information.

AssetGen Planner released - Data Centre Change Planning
18th September 2008

AssetGen Planner is now available - the latest product in the AssetGen infrastructure management tools suite. Designed to dramatically reduce the manual workload involved in planning and managing change, AssetGen Planner automates the use of information held in data centre and service management toolsets. Features include;

	Finding cabinets with the space, power, connectivity required for complex hardware
	Automated drawing of floor plans and rack layouts in Visio
	Assessing the impact on services of multiple equipment changes
	Identifying the hardware and service impacts of power downs
	Automated drawing of topology diagrams covering LAN/SAN/Power connectivity to critical devices
	Capacity reports on space, ports, power resources, etc

"AssetGen Planner really makes a difference to the workload of data centre operations and project teams" said David Cuthbertson, AssetGen’s Commercial Director. "Provisioning, decommissioning and reporting activities suddenly become easier. Taking down a PDU would involve tracing every device connected to each power strip, then tracing the connectivity of servers and LAN/SAN switches, as well as having to understand service impacts. Now it takes a few seconds rather than hours or days. Producing updated Visio diagrams of racks is so easy that no organisation can say it’s too time-consuming to have accurate data centre documentation".

AssetGen Version 2 released
January 14th, 2008

Version 2 of the AssetGen range (Connect and SysMap) has been released with a variety of enhancements, additional features and functions. Version 2 has been updated to run MS SQL2005 and make use of MS .net Framework 2. Existing users will see an updated user interface incorporating user instructions and system messages. AssetGen CMDB has been renamed AssetGen SysMap to reflect the increased functionality in mapping systems and services.

Additional functions and features include;

SysMap

	Relationship filtering to enable service, batch, data flow and other mapping using common CIs or components
	Impact analysis can use filters using attributes and relationships
	Optional use of relationship rules to prevent update errors

Connect

	IP address support for devices and ports
	Additional reports & netViz support for IP address reporting and display
	Cable label searching and display on path traces

Version 2 is now available for shipping. Existing customers with support contracts will receive updates as part of normal maintenance releases.

AssetGen in Australia
December 14th, 2007

The AssetGen range now has sales and technical support in the AsiaPac region with the opening of the new Square Mile Systems office in Western Australia. For details of local events and presentations incorporating the AssetGen range, contact Brendan Martin of Square Mile Systems on +61 (0)417 231726, or via the contacts page.

AssetGen Connect 1.6 & AssetGen SysMap 1.3 Released
September 27th, 2007

The latest versions of AssetGen range have now been released with additional integration features between the two packages. Any service maps, network diagrams, rack layouts, system diagrams derived from the AssetGen toolsets have embedded links that launch you back to the original database in one or two mouse clicks. These enhancements make it easier for technical infrastructure, service management and outsource teams to work more effectively when planning, managing or reacting to changes.

For Example;

	Launch an impact assessment on software or services by selecting a hardware component in a rack diagram
	Find the exact physical location of a device referenced in a service map or service desk CMDB
	Navigate from a system diagram back into the infrastructure database to verify/update current data
	Quickly assess all services impacted by a hardware fault or an unsuccessful change implementation
	Access existing service desk CMDB data using AssetGen which is typically much faster than the service desk user interface.

These updated versions bring together technical and service information sets, enabling team working and faster decision making.