NEC NDA-31135 User Manual
Expense Management
Cable Management Module
User Guide
NEC
NDA-31135, Revision 1
NEC Corporation
November 2010
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Contents
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Introduction 1-1
Cable Management Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
How This Guide is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Getting Started 2-1
Accessing the Cable Management Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Cable Management Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Navigation Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Grid Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
User Defined Fields 3-1
User Defined Fields Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Editing User Defined Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
User Defined Field Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Managing Cables 4-1
Cable Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Adding a New Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Viewing and Editing a Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Deleting a Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Deleting all Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
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Administration 5-1
Administration - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Importing and Exporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Importing Cables From a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Exporting Cables into a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Backing Up and Restoring Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Reports 6-1
Reports - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Generating a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Integration with other Modules of Application Suite 7-1
Integration - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Integration with Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Integration with Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
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Figures
Figure Title Page
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2-1 Module Selection Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
2-2 Cable Management Main Window Panes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
2-3 Filtering Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
2-4 Saving Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
3-1 User Defined Info Fields Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
4-1 Cable Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
4-2 Cable Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
5-1 Import Cables Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5-2 Export Cables Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5-3 Export Finished Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
5-4 Backup Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
6-1 Duplicate Entities Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
7-1 Device Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
7-2 Ticket Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
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Tables
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Table Title Page
3-1 User Defined Fields - Datafill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
4-1 Cable Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
6-1 Available Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
6-2 Report Specific Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6-3 Send Output To - Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
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Introduction
The Expense Management Cable Management Module User Guide
provides the information you need to manage the cables in your
organization.
Chapter Topics •Cable Management Overview
• How This Guide is Organized
1-1
Cable Management Overview
The Cable Management Module is a tool that enables you to manage the
cables in your organization, including their locations and connections.
With the Cable Management Module, you can:
• Integrate location data (building, room, and floor) from the Cable
Management Module into the Edit Device dialog box.
• Integrate location data (building, room, and floor) from the Cable
Management Module into the Ticket dialog box of the Help Desk
module.
How This Guide is Organized
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Getting Started
Chapter 3
User Defined Fields
This chapter outlines how to use the manual including the organization
and chapter layout of the Expense Management Cable Management
Module User Guide.
This chapter introduces you to the Cable Management Module basics.
This chapter introduces you user defined fields, their applications and
descriptions.
Managing Cables
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Administration
Chapter 6
Reports
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This chapter explains cable identification, location, and status data,
along with additional information on specific cable management fields.
This chapter introduces you to tasks associated with the Administrative
sub-module.
This chapter describes report types, specific parameters, and report
output options for the Cable Management Module.
1-2 Introduction
Chapter 7
Integration with
other Modules of
Application Suite
This chapter details Cable Management Module integration with other
modules of the Application Suite.
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Getting Started
This chapter introduces you to the Cable Management Module basics,
including how to access the module, the Cable Management main
window and navigation.
Chapter Topics • Accessing the Cable Management Module
• Cable Management Main Window
2-1
Accessing the Cable Management Module
From the Module Selection Bar of the Application Suite window, select
the CM tab, see Figure 2-1 .
Figure 2-1
Module Selection Bar
Cable Management Main Window
The Cable Management main window is composed of following two parts
as shown in Figure 2-2:
• Navigation pane on
• Grid pane on the rig
the left hand side of the window
ht hand side of the window
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2-2 Getting Started
Figure 2-2
Cable Management Main Window Panes
Navigation Pane
At the bottom of the navigation pane, you will find the sub-module
selection tabs. The upper part of the navigation pane displays the
options available for the selected sub-module.
Grid Pane
The grid pane on the right hand side of the window displays data and
toolbars appropriate to the option selected. For the Ports and Cables
sub-module, this area contains the cables' grid which is composed of the
following parts:
• Action toolbar - contains the currently available tools and action
• Column Heading bar - each column represents one data field of the
current cable
• Filters bar - where you define filters
• Data rows - each row represents one data record
• Status Bar - displays current status, paging information, and some
tional action buttons
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