Procedure

Prerequisite: A facilities manager creates floor plans, a space inventory, and other background data. See Background Data - Facilities .

1. Determine your business needs and required level of detail. See:
   • Planning your Connection Inventory
   • Methods for Creating Telecom Inventory
2. Develop the telecom-specific background data.
3. Develop your telecom inventory with either, or a combination, of these methods:
   • Represent Equipment and Telecom Devices in CAD
     • Draw Equipment
     • Draw Faceplates
     • Draw Jacks
     • Draw Patch Panels

• Use the Telecom Console to enter your telecom items in the database, or edit items created from CAD.
  • Create Equipment
  • Create Faceplates
  • Automatically Create Jacks for Faceplates
  • Manually Create Jacks
  • Create Patch Panels
  • Automatically Create Ports for Patch Panels
  • Manually Create Ports
  • Automatically Create Ports for Equipment

  For information on how to work with the Telecom Console, see:

  • Telecom Console: Overview
  • Use the Telecom Console's Filter
  • Work with Floor Plans in the Telecom Console .
  • Query an Asset on the Floor Plan Drawing

4. Connect your telecom assets:
   • from the grid
   • from the floor plan
5. As needed for troubleshooting, moves, and new hires, look up assets and connections:
   • list telecom connections on forms
   • view telecom connections in the floor plan
   • highlight rooms with connections
6. Maintain your telecom connections. As needed, add to the telecom inventory and update your connections.

7. Optional : Periodically survey your physical inventory. At set times, say annually, travel through your site with a laptop to observe physical connections and update your electronic inventory of network connections.
8. Trace the dependencies for your equipment systems on a floor plan, and highlight the rooms that an equipment system serves. Review information for the team that supports this equipment. The Telecom Management process includes the Equipment Systems Console that enables you to perform these tasks.