FNT Software Releases FNT Command 13 to Simplify the Management of Complex IT, Data Center, and Network Infrastructures
FNT Command 13 Helps Enterprise Organizations Optimize Asset, Cable, and Data Center Management with Flexible Documentation and Planning Functions
Parsippany, NJ, 07/20/2021
FNT Software, the leading provider of software solutions for the integrated management of IT, data center, and telecommunication infrastructures worldwide, today announced the release of FNT Command 13. To keep pace with the rollout of digital transformation initiatives, enterprise organizations require a central database from which to control and optimize the delivery of applications and technology services. FNT Command 13 offers numerous functional extensions, technical improvements, and usability optimizations to simplify the management of complex IT, data center, and network infrastructures.
FNT Command 13 features an extended auto-routing functionality and the inventory of assemblies in the warehouse. Optimized planning of cable and device relocations as well as the extension of the historization to users, groups, roles and privileges are also part of the new scope of services. To enable users to analyze infrastructure and service data more efficiently, FNT GraphicCenter and FNT GeoMaps, a powerful GIS application based on Esri ArcGIS, are integrated with FNT Command 13.
An expanded range of functions for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) have also been added to FNT Command 13 to optimize usability. 2D footprints provide graphic representations of entire data centers or zones within them to provide facility managers with a comprehensive overview of current and planned conditions within the data center. Extended layer functions significantly improve the structuring of footprints and allow them to be documented quickly and accurately.
“Businesses continue to face challenges such as budget and cost pressures, capacity bottlenecks, and compliance guidelines,” said Steve MacDiarmid, Executive Managing Director, North America, at FNT Software. “As a centralized management and optimization solution, FNT Command 13 gives total transparency across entire data center infrastructures to accelerate day-to-day business processes and achieve greater operational reliability.”
For more flexible documentation, reference grids can be set individually and completely independently of, for example, floor plates. In addition, footprints can be created much faster, more conveniently, more precisely, and in greater detail. FNT Command 13 features a snap function, the flexible creation and subsequent processing of graphic objects, polygon functions, and the labeling of objects to significantly improve usability.
For optimized cable management, fibers can now be managed more comprehensively and flexibly thanks to expanded functions. For example, cable types can be individually defined with regard to bundles, numbers of fibers and color codes, and additional information can be linked at the individual fiber level. In addition, the port and fiber status can be more easily managed.
The routing functionality in Signal Management can now also be used if the start and end points of the route are in the same zone. This allows auto-routing to be used even more flexibly, for example also for routing within a room in the data center. An additional function enables splices to be created between fibers that are in different cassettes. This allows cables to be planned and documented seamlessly. In addition, more detailed splice information can be used in signal tracing.
FNT Command 13 also streamlines IP management. The search for free IP networks of a certain size (according to CIDR notation) can be easily carried out within a defined area. The results are clearly displayed and networks can be created directly and quickly from them.
To learn more about FNT Command 13, visit the corresponding product page: www.fntsoftware.com/en/products/fnt-command/fnt-command-13
About FNT Software
FNT is a leading provider of software solutions for the integrated management of telecommunications, IT and data center infrastructure. FNT’s solutions are cloud ready and can be used worldwide as an OSS/IT management application for communications service providers, enterprises and government organizations. Over 500 companies and public authorities rely on FNT to plan, document and manage their passive and active physical, logical and virtual IT, telecommunications and data center infrastructures, from the physical level to business services. FNT’s unified resource management capabilities store this information in a vendor-agnostic uniform data model that builds a central system of record of a hybrid infrastructure. Whatever mixture of traditional on-premise IT and private, managed and public clouds an organization uses, the single source of information about all network assets that FNT provides is the key to gaining a clear understanding of overall utilization, capacities and asset status for more efficient planning, service assurance and fulfillment processes.
FNT is headquartered in Germany and has offices in the USA, Singapore, the UK and Russia. FNT offers its software in numerous countries through partnerships with market-leading IT service providers and system integrators. Further information can be found at www.fntsoftware.com.
U.S. Company Contact:
Steve MacDiarmid
General Manager, North America
steve.macdiarmid@fntsoftware.com
973-590-2627
Agency Contacts:
Domenick Cilea
Springboard Public Relations
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732-813-7401
Caroline Vallila Smith
Springboard Public Relations
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732-813-7402