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NEC NEC Infrontia Corporation MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide May 2009 NDA-310101, Issue 1[...]

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i MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Content s Introduction 1-1 How This Guide is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Exploring Cab le Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Exploring the Cable Management Environmen[...]

Contents ii MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Setting Up Infrastructures 4-1 Setting up t he Geographical Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 About the Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 -1 Setting Up Co mpanies . .[...]

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1-1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 1 Introduction The MA4000 Expense Manage ment Cable Management Use r Guide provides all the information need ed t o use the Cab le Management application. The following topics are included in this chapter . Chapter T opics • How This Guide is Organized • Exploring Cable Managem[...]

1-2 Introduction MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Exploring Cable Management Exploring the Cable Management Environment The Cable Management interface is comprised of sever al helpful sections. In keeping everything unifor m, the actual look of the software will remain the same throughout the different sections of th[...]

Introduction 1-3 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Cable Management Main Menu The Cable Management Main Menu is on the right side of the Main P age and consists of fiv e submenus. A brie f descrip tion of each menu link is described below: Cable Management menu : • Launch Application - Launches the main Cable Managem[...]

1-4 Introduction MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 The Cable Management Environment Navigator T ree The Navigator T ree, displayed in the upper left pane of the Cable Management application, shows the physical and geogr aphical lay out of your infrastructure. It allows you to move around the infrastructure quickly and[...]

Introduction 1-5 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Company - The company is the highest-lev el component in Cable Management. It's the starting point for managing your cabling infrast ructure. Even if you only mana ge the infr astructure for a single company , you still need t o define the company before setting u[...]

1-6 Introduction MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 List View The upper half of the ri ght pane is the List View . Al s o r ef e r r ed to a s t he List View pane or List View area. The List View resembles a spread sheet. Clicking any category in the drop-dow n list in the upper left corner of this pane displays a l is[...]

Introduction 1-7 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 The following table describes the user buttons along the top of the List View pane (T able 1-1) : T able 1-1 Button Description The Copy button will allow you to duplicate the item being copied for an easier way of building specific network components. The Add button a[...]

1-8 Introduction MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Det ail View When a List View category is selected, the Detail View in the lower half of the window displa ys details of the selected record from the List View table. Y ou can change to a different record by select ing a different row in the spreadsheet, either by scr[...]

Introduction 1-9 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Att achment s Cable Management has attachment capabilit y that can be found throughout the application. This capabil ity can be found at every lev el of your infr astructure, along with ev erything being tr acked about your infrastructure, down to each individual com p[...]

1-10 Introduction MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Deleting an Att achment Ste p 1 Locate your a ttachment within Cab le Management. Ste p 1 Click on the Delete link next to your at tachment for complete deletion of the file. Ste p 1 Click OK on the pop-up message that appear s when you are positive that deletion of [...]

Introduction 1-1 1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 3 Click Save in order for your notes to be saved properly . Once you have clicked the Save button, a check mark appears in the selection box illustrating a saved no te for that item. At this level, notes can be de leted or changed by g oing through the same ste[...]

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2-1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 2 Cable Management T ools The followi ng topics are includ ed in this chapter . Chapter T opics • Cable Management Tools Available Within the App lication • Cable Management Tools Accessed from the Cable Managemen t Main Page Cable Management T ools A vai lable W ithin the Appl[...]

2-2 Cable Management T ools MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Window Sizing Cable Management allows for the different areas of the main screen within the normal application view to be resized as the user sees fit. After clicking on the Launch Applic ation link on the Cable Management home page, the screen will be divi[...]

Cable Management T ools 2-3 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Quick S et/Quick In sert Button s Throughout Cable Management whe re you choose a location for a component or , in the Cable P ath, wher e you insert a component, y ou will find shortcut b uttons ( Quick Set and Quick Insert ) that allow you to quickly choos[...]

2-4 Cable Management T ools MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Using the Copy function Ste p 1 In the List View , select the component you wish to copy . Ste p 2 Click the Copy button. Ste p 3 A **new record** row will be added to the List View table, and the data you copied will be displayed In the Detail View p ane, [...]

Cable Management T ools 2-5 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Circuit T race T ool About the Circuit T race T ool Cable Management's Circ uit T race T ool allows you to view , in both text and graphic format, all the components of an individual circuit. Circuit traci ng is especially helpful in identi fying the so[...]

2-6 Cable Management T ools MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Viewing Circui t Information The Circuit Trace window consists of two main elem ents: •A table that lists the detai led location of each component in the circuit. The highl ighted item in th e table that is the component from where the trace is being cond[...]

Cable Management T ools 2-7 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Arranging the Diagram The default arrangement fo r the gr aphic diag ram is a st raight li ne from left to right. Y ou can change i t to one of three other a rrangements, or you can manu ally rearran ge the components. To change the structure of th e d iagra[...]

2-8 Cable Management T ools MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Cable Management T ools Accessed from the Cable Management Main Page User Defined Fields Cable Management has drop-down fields in the Detail View area of the screen throughout the application. So me of these fields will appear with libr aries of items alrea[...]

Cable Management T ools 2-9 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Custom Fields Cable Management all ows you to defi ne up to 10 additional fields for tracking and displ aying data in the component tables. These additional fields can be customized for: • Assets • Asset P orts • Backbone Cables • Backbone P airs/Str[...]

2-10 Cable Management T ool s MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Security Log Cable Management tracks every tr ansaction by every user who logs into the application, recording the user's name and the date and time of the transacti on. For ev ery record, Cable Management displays a Revis ion Log (under the Notes an[...]

Cable Management T oo ls 2-1 1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 General Settings Cable Management's General Settings capabilit y is located on the Cable Management Main Page via the Gene ral Settings link under the SETUP section of the menu. When the General Settings link is select ed, the Hide Sections pop-up wi[...]

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3-1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 3 Cable Management Wizards The followin g topics are included in this ch apter: Chapter T opics • About Cable Management's Wi zards • Infrastructure Setup Wizards • Documentation Wizards About Cable Manageme nt's Wizards Cable Management offers a number of wizards t[...]

3-2 Cable Management Wizards MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 needed documentation. See the warnin g below for additional reasons for these recommendations. Although several items can be built with in seconds, the application has no global delete capability . Given this, deletion still must b e completed by go ing to[...]

Cable Management Wizards 3-3 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 — If the inform ation is correct, click th e Save button. The Navigator T ree will be updated with the infrastruc ture components you created. — If ther e's an error o n the list, yo u can dis card the ad ditions by clicking in a differ ent section[...]

3-4 Cable Management Wizards MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 The naming/numbering feature of these wizards all function in the same way . Other information entered into the wizard is specific to the particular component type. Port Naming Wizard A fifth documentation wizard, the Port Naming Wizard , can be accessed o[...]

4-1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 4 Setting Up Infrastructures Chapter T opics • Setting up the Geographical Infrastructure • Setting Up Companies • Setting Up the Cabling Infrastruc ture Setting up the Geogra phical Infrastructure About the Infrastructure Once you are familiar with the Ca ble Management envi[...]

4-2 Setting Up Infrastruc tures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Setting Up Comp anies The company is the highest -level co mponent in Cable Management. It's the starting point for managing y our cabling infrast ructure. Even if y ou only manage th e infrastructure for a single comp any , you st ill need to defi[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-3 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Adding a Campus Ste p 1 Go to Infrastructure in the setup a rea on the application Main Page. Select the company where the camp us will reside. The Comp any Info window for that comp any will appear . Ste p 2 Click the Add button. Enter the name an d loca[...]

4-4 Setting Up Infrastruc tures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 2 Highlight the Campus where you wish to add spaces and buildings by clicking on the Campus icon or name . Ste p 3 The Campus Info dialog screen appears with the campus name in the title bar and Attributes frame. Ste p 4 Click the Building List ra[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-5 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 the floors 01, 02, and so on, so that the floors will sort in order on the Navigator T ree. Ste p 5 Click Save when you 're finis hed. T o ex it this wind ow witho ut saving your changes, click the application Main Page link or anothe r level within [...]

4-6 Setting Up Infrastruc tures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 view the rooms or cubicles you've add ed. The name of each W ork Area appears next to a cu bicle icon. Removing an Indoor S p ace Ste p 1 On the Cable Managem ent Main Page, select Infrastructure on the SETUP menu. Ste p 2 Highlight the floor name [...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-7 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Removing a T elecommunication Sp ace Ste p 1 On the Cable Managem ent Main Page, select Infrastructure on the SETUP menu. Ste p 2 Highlight the floor name or icon where the space is housed. Ste p 3 In the grid, click the space you wish to remove and click[...]

4-8 Setting Up Infrastruc tures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Removing an Out door S p ace Ste p 1 On the Cable Managem ent Main Page, select Infrastructure on the SETUP menu. Ste p 2 Click on the campus name or icon. The Campus Info screen appears. Ste p 3 Click the Sp ace List radio button to s how outdoor space[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-9 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1  A MUTOA is a faceplate or biscuit that cont ains several horizont al links an d feeds more than on e work stat i on or user . From the faceplate, you may add as m any horizon tal links as you wish. S ee “Horizontal Links” on page 4-14 . Ports Each[...]

4-10 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Setting Up the Cab ling Infrastructure Once the geographi cal infrastr ucture is set up using the SETUP menu on the Cable Management Main P age, you must click Launch Application on the Main P age and open the Cable Management application to set up t he[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-1 1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 7 Select a Color Code ID from the drop-down list. This information is optional, and is used to describe the type of hardwar e that can be cross- connected. Defining T ermination Hardware Cable Management comes with many T ermination Hardware typ e[...]

4-12 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Changing the st atus of a port or position Ste p 1 Click the Port/Position Deta ils ta b. Ste p 2 Click on the Port or Pos ition in the St at us column. A drop-down list appears that allows you to ch ange t he status of the Port/Position from Availab le[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-13 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 5 The Descriptions columns allow you to assign descriptions you want to include for each kind of Asset. Fo r example , for a computer , which is a Workst ation/Dat a asset, you might wa nt to include Mo del, Serial Number , CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, an[...]

4-14 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Financials The Financials feature allows y ou to depreciate assets automatically . T o do so, follow this procedure: Ste p 1 Click the Financials tab in the De tail area af ter selecting the needed asset in the spreadsheet area . Ste p 2 Click the butto[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-15 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Horizont al Link (HL) Info Setting up a horizontal lin k Ste p 1 In the Navigator T ree , highlight the faceplate on the space where you want the link to originate. Ste p 2 Select the Horizont al Links category in the drop-down field in th e List View se[...]

4-16 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 6 T o delete any Horizont al Link type, click on the type, click the Delete button, and th en click Save before exiting the window . Connecting Cont act s to a Horizont al Link Only the basic information in the Horizontal Link T ype Frame is requi[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-17 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Connecting a Dat a Horizont al Link to a Ma inframe Asset Ste p 1 From the Data Horizont al link, go to the Ba ckbone Connection group box. Ste p 2 Click the ellipsis button next to the Mainframe PU field. Ste p 3 The Attach Asset window ap pears with Ma[...]

4-18 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Editing the Key Sheet The K ey Sheet is used to describe the type of phone, type of phone connection (line) from the phone switch, and voicemail information. The K ey Sheet tab appears when you are creating a V oice/Modem horizontal link. The top bar c [...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-19 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Splic e T ypes (User Defined) Adding user-defined splices to the closure Ste p 1 Click the Add button in the Detail Vi ew . Enter the splice ID in the S plice ID column. Ste p 2 In the Ty p e column, enter the splice type you wish to add, or select a typ[...]

4-20 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Adding a Backbone Ste p 1 Highlight the space on the Navigator T ree where the backbone cable will start. Ste p 2 Click the Add button in the List Vi ew area. Ste p 3 In the Detail V iew Backbone Info tab, ente r the backbone's ID in the Backbone I[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-21 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Backbone Source Setting up the backb one source Ste p 1 Click the Source tab. The Connectio n Location box is po pulated with th e selected source location. Ste p 2 In the Connection Device T ype box, click the appropriate radio button: — T ermination [...]

4-22 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Backbone Pair/Strand Det ails Pair/Strand Details shows the status of every pair/strand on the curren t backbone cable. F or every backbone cable attached to the highlighted space on the Navigator T ree, the St atus column reflects whether the port or p[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-23 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Adding p athways used Ste p 1 Highlight the Pathways Used t ab. Ste p 2 Click the Add button in the Det ail area. The Location wi ndow appears. Select the first Pathway this backbone is in. Click Accept . Ste p 3 Segment, Pathwa y ID, Pathway T ype, and [...]

4-24 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Adding a Conductor Y ou can add a conductor after adding appropriate busbars for t he highlighted space. Ste p 1 At the top of the List View , click the Conductors ra dio button. Ste p 2 Click the Add button in the List Vie w . Ste p 3 In the Conductor [...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-25 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Conductor Pathways Used Ste p 1 T o ground a p athway , click the Connected Pa thways tab, and then click the Add button. Ste p 2 The Select Location window appears. Highlight the p athway you wish to ground. Click OK . Ste p 3 Pathway ID, Pathway T ype,[...]

4-26 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Connecting a Firestop to a Pathway Connecting a Firestop to a P athw ay must be done via the P athw ays- Connected Firestops tab. See Connecting a Pathway to a F irestop . The Connected P athways tab di splays information from the P athw ays category . [...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-27 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Connecting the Pathways All pathw ays set up within y our facility can be interconnected. Y ou should, however , be aware of si tuations where it would not be reasonable to connect certain pathw ays together , e.g. , pathways in different buildings. Use [...]

4-28 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Defining a Cont act Cable Management comes with man y Contact types already defined f or you. If , however , you wish to track a type of Contact that has not been defined, yo u can define it y ourself . Define a cont act type Ste p 1 In the View Det ail[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-29 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Creating Cable Management S pecific Users Use the Contacts area to also mana ge the users with access to Cable Management. When adding users in Cabl e Management, give each one a User name in the Contacts Info tab Detail Vi ew . If you ha ve Administr at[...]

4-30 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Sorting, Filt ering, and Grouping Reports Selecting Dat a for a Report Each report has selection crit eria spec ific to that report. These criteria filter the report. For example : — The Horizontal Lin k Cable Report window conta ins radio buttons to [...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-31 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 The Print Details Button Y ou may also print out all detailed information for a specific item by clicking the P rint Deta ils button at the top of th e List View sect ion of the Cable Management user interface. For example : Ste p 1 Click the Print Det a[...]

4-32 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 S preadsheet T ool Spreadsheet T ool (Import from Excel) One of Cable Manage ment's most useful tools is its ability to bulk -load large amounts of existing data in to the Cable Management database. With this tool, any kind of data that can be conv[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-33 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Ste p 4 The tool will open as a spreadsheet with the following tabbed worksheets, and a Help tab: — Assets — T ermination Hardware — Backbone Cables — Horizontal Links — Users Each component's workshee t functions independently of the othe[...]

4-34 Setting Up Infrastructures MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Checking Dat a Ste p 1 With the active worksheet cont aining the dat a you wish to import, click the Check Data button. Ste p 2 If this is your first time using this function after launching the S preadsheet To o l , a n SQL Server Login window will ope[...]

Setting Up Infrastructures 4-35 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Importing Dat a Ste p 1 With the checked dat a displayed in the active worksheet, click the Import Dat a button. Ste p 2 The data will be copied into the selected Cable Management database. Ste p 3 When the import process is finished, a message box will [...]

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Appendix - 1 MA4000 Expense Management Cable Management User Guide - Issue 1 Appendix Product Functionality T ermination Hardware T ermination hardware for all cabling infrastructure is easy to set up. Cable Management makes it s imple to locate termination hardware when you need to mo ve cabling; i t's also easy to tr ack ports/positions and [...]

Appendix - 2 Product Functionality MA4000 Expense Management Cable Ma nagement User Guide - Issue 1 Grounding Grounding for backbone cables, assets, pat hways, and termination hardware can be set up in Cable Management. The busbar and conductors can be connected to pat hways.  See “Groundin g” on pa ge 4-23 . Splic es Y ou can track the spli[...]

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