netTerrain DCIM

netTerrain DCIM is the data center infrastructure management product from Graphical Networks, a small employee-owned company in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It keeps a visual record of rack-mounted equipment, power, network connections, and floor space. Teams can rearrange racks by drag and drop, see capacity in color-coded floor plans organized by rack units or weight, trace cable paths when an outage happens, manage ports, and produce circuit layout records in a swimlane view. For energy, it flags underutilized or zombie servers, applies power capping policies based on real-time and historical data, and reports power use and carbon emissions. Environmental monitoring is a separately sold module. Integration is one of its strengths. It discovers SNMP devices and maps them automatically, shows VMware vCenter virtual machines, monitors AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud accounts, imports from databases including homegrown systems, and creates hardware diagrams from ServiceNow data. Graphical Networks does not publish prices. Licenses are quoted based on the number of devices and users, and buyers get a free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Directory listings put the starting price at about US$4,926. The product is a good fit for IT and facilities teams in government, healthcare, telecom, and large enterprises; listed customers include NASA, the US Army, and AT&T. Its main drawbacks are the lack of transparent pricing and a small vendor. One reviewer also reported that search needs tuning once an inventory passes about 50,000 devices. The same vendor sells netTerrain Logical for network diagrams and netTerrain OSP for fiber plant.