Open the room with the racks you want to edit and double-click a rack to open it in the rack layout. To enable moving equipment between racks, open multiple racks next to each other by clicking the plus icon and selecting more racks.
Warning: Any changes made to the rack inventory in the web client will update the model on the ITA server and in the desktop client.
Adding, moving, or deleting rack equipment
To add equipment from the equipment library:
- Click + ADD EQUIPMENT to open the equipment library.
- In the text field, start typing some characters of the equipment you want to add, or the product category, for example 'blade enclosures'.
As you type, all items that contain the typed characters are listed. - Select the item you want to add and drag it into position in the rack layout.
- Close the equipment library (x) when you are done adding equipment to return to the full rack layout.
To move equipment in the layout:
- Drag and drop equipment to other positions and/or racks.
- To move equipment between racks, open the racks next to each other by clicking the plus icon, and selecting the racks, and then drag equipment.
To delete equipment in the layout:
- Select the piece of equipment to delete.
- Scroll to the bottom of the equipment information panel to the right and select DELETE.
Configuring, editing, or deleting power connections
The application provides two ways of configuring power connections for rack equipment:
- Configuring power connections from power consumers point of view,
- Configuring power connections from rack PDU point of view, if rack PDU supports extended power information.
Configuring power connections from power consumers point of view
- Select the power consumer for which you want to configure, edit, or delete power connections, such as a server.
- In the equipment information panel to the right, click the Power tile and look for power consumer inlet with nothing connected to it. Free inlet is marked with gray rectangle and label saying ”Not connected”.
- Use dropdown to the right to see list of possible power sources.
- Click on desired power source.
- For power sources without power outlet information, select phase from list of available phase configurations,
- For power sources with power outlet information, select available outlet.
- To remove existing power connection, click on the selected phase or outlet again.
Configuring power connections from rack PDU point of view (extended power information only)
- Select the power outlet for which you want to configure, edit, or delete power connection.
- In the equipment information panel to the right, click the Power tile and check the Connected state.
- Use dropdown to the right to see list of possible power consumers.
- Click on desired power consumer to establish connection.
- To remove existing power connection, click on the selected power consumer.
Editing equipment properties
- Select the piece of equipment for which you want to edit properties, such as a server.
- In the Properties tile in the equipment information panel to the right, edit any property.
Some properties may not be editable.
Any changes to the rack inventory will show in the Audit Trail.