What's new in IT Advisor 9.5.x

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IT Advisor 9.5.0

A new desktop is required for the IT Advisor 9.5.0 release.

New features in the web client

Favorites

• You can now mark rooms or locations as favorites directly from the main inventory page. Right click and select Add to favorites.
• Click the toggle to Show only favourite locations in the navigation tree or show all rooms and locations.

Power Configuration

• Select Power Consumers in the Properties pane to manage pairing power consumers for racks and cages.
• Select multiple power consumers to pair or unpair.

 

Breaker Panels

• Select Breaker Panels in the Properties pane to manage breaker panels.
• Add new panels or manage existing ones in the Breaker Panel pane.

New Reports section

You can now generate reports in the web client.

Click Reports and select a report type. Select a date range, location, and the information to include and click Generate Report.

Click Export Report to save as a PDF.

Available reports include:

• Audit Trail
• Capacity History
• Energy Cost by Customer
• Energy Cost by Tag
• Energy Cost
• Inventory
• Inventory with Serial Number
• Rack Audit
• Rack Capacity

Note: The Rack Audit report now shows the time of the last rack audit.

 

Assign Custom Properties and Tags

• You can now assign custom properties and tags to locations and rooms. Select a location and right click. Select Edit properties.

 

General improvements

• You can now drag to resize room fixtures such as rows, gaps, and blocks, or drag and drop to move fixtures in the Room Editor view.

• Adjusted nameplate and estimated load information are now available in the web client Equipment browser. Select one or more assets and click Edit items.

Usability Improvements

• The left side bar is now categorized into sections:

- Model: Contains Inventory and Genomes

- Analyze: Contains Dashboard and Reports

- Manage: Contains Change Management

• The Administration section moved to the top right toolbar. 

Issues fixed

• Improvements to work orders
  The work order task list no longer automatically scrolls to the top after modifying an entry.
• External URLS to assets
  External links to assets in ITA are now active as expected.
• Audit report permissions
  User Rights and Authentication Servers permissions are no longer required to run audit reports.
• Desktop client asset properties tooltip
  In the Customer properties tooltip in the desktop client, the Customer name field is no longer populated with data from Company and Comment fields.
• Capacity calculations
  Capacity data calculation and display issues were addressed.
• Breaker panel properties
  Breaker panel details are now displayed as expected.
• Room doors
  You can now place a door opening to the inside or the outside of a room.
• Room size
  Rooms created using US customary units are now sized correctly.

Known issues

• On the Dashboards > Sustainability metrics tab, configuration changes are not saved after logging out of the web client.
• On the Dashboards > Sustainability metrics tab, the Price field in Subsystem Cost is cleared when you click Set default price and CO2 emission.
• Hot and Cold Aisle Containment systems are not created correctly in the web client.