Services Infrastructure & Asset Management

Infrastructure & Asset Management

Data Centre Audits, Documentation & Data Base

If not managed and maintained correctly by trained personnel, IT infrastructure can become unmanageable and unreliable very quickly. This often causes major business risk and unforeseen outages. It may also mean that you lose track of your asset register, resulting in hardware becoming lost inside data centres and comms rooms.

Infrastructure Audits:

Kinetic IT offer a range of infrastructure audit and documentation services with associated software tools to help you manage and maintain your businesses IT estate. These include:

  • Active equipment audits and device asset tracking
  • Power connectivity and circuit identification
  • Power consumption and capacity surveys
  • Copper and fibre connectivity tracing
  • Physical layer health checks and trouble shooting
  • Environmental audits and temperature management
  • Creation and provision of CAD-Visio-Excel documentation

Infrastructure Management and Software Solutions:

If you are finding excel spreadsheets or existing database management tools to be stale and cumbersome, or you feel your DCIM management software is insufficient for your IT infrastructure and asset management requirements Kinetic IT can help!

We offer infrastructure and asset management software solutions and associated services that can streamline operational processes, enhance manageability and provide secure governance for your IT operations, whilst allowing you to correctly manage your physical IT infrastructure. These include:

  • Consultation and database design
  • Data consolidation, migration and importing
  • Data cleansing and formatting
  • API integration solutions
  • Creation of database reporting and management processes
  • Operational administration and data implementation
  • Training provision and support help desk

PATCH MANAGER

Kinetic IT are an integration partner with PATCH MANAGER; a universally applicable, infrastructure management database product which gives clear insights into the purpose and use of every cable, device and network location within your organisation.

With realistic modelling that map one-to-one with the actual infrastructure, PATCH MANAGER provides IT professionals with a simple to use but powerful application.

Failures and inconsistent use of cabling and network assets can have major consequences in terms of reliability, efficiency and quality and can lead to significant associated costs. These problems can be avoided with the introduction of the PATCH MANAGER product.

We offer different levels of support for PATCH MANAGER depending on your requirements. Key features include:

  • Managing copper, fibre and power infrastructure
  • Managing voice and data circuits
  • Managing your ‘Moves’, ‘Adds’ and ‘Changes’ in the physical layer
  • Managing your available space, network and power capacity
  • Troubleshooting physical layer network problems
  • Compliance with IT audit and security procedures
  • Coordinating work between teams and projects
  • Generating engineering and management reports on your network assets
  • Managing the mapping between directory/data services and your physical layer assets

PATCH MANAGER is a browser based application whereby the back-end server can be deployed on Windows, Linux or Solaris operating systems with out-of-the-box database support for the most popular commercial and open-source database management systems.

PATCH MANAGER is also available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, removing the need for any installation, configuration or maintenance. It also provides an extensive API for integration with third party systems and devices.