Infrastructure
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Introduction
Within i-doit you can not only document your IT-infrastructure, you can also enter detailed information about your real infrastructure. I-doit provides the possibility to document three kinds of objects of your infrastructure: buildings, rooms and 19" racks.
Concept
The first thing you have to know about documenting these objects is that they need to be assigned to one another in a given order. Rooms need to be assigned to buildings and racks need to be assigned to rooms. And besides this there also is a dummy object called "Root-Location" where buildings have to be assigned to, but these assignments should happen automatically.
Once you have entered any infrastructure objects you will be able to assign any other type of object to it. Using this procedure you can document exactly in which room or rack your servers or clients or power supplies are.
Usage
All these assignments can be made in the category "Location" in each of the objects (infrastructure and other objects), there is a location browser popup where you can choose the object you want something to assign to.
After you documented all your buildings, rooms and racks you can switch the main tree view in i-doit from a object based view to a location view, for example when you have a large infrastructure and do not really know how the switch in room 125 in building C is called.
Scenarios
Root-Location ---> Building A ---> IT-Room 1 ---> Rack 1 ---> DNS-Server 1
Root-Location ---> Building A ---> IT-Room 2 ---> Rack 5 ---> DNS-Server 2
