We use all three as well. Access to TopOrg is limited to only a few people. TopOrg housed sensitive information such as passwords, circuit ID's and IOS versions and what not. This works great because they don't have keep copies of sensitive information on their PC's or on thumb drives. They can only copy the information, they can not edit it or add to it. If something needs to be changed they submit the information to me and I update it. Universe is simply topology and logical hierarchy of backbone sites, remote sites and equipment located at those sites. I set up the World view so anyone can open it and find the actual location of remote sites, the floor plans for the sites, a cable room CAD drawing and site contact information. When you first open the World view you see 6 major remote departments. As you drill down you see street maps and containers for each of the remote sites. Drill down a little deeper you find building information like floor plans and contact/access information and the location of our WAP's. Drill down one more layer and you'll find a cable room CAD drawing that shows where the equipment is in the room. This has helped our repair techs who have never been to a site. They have a one stop shop on how to get to a remote location who to talk to when they get there, the location of the cable room and the location of the device they need to repair.
>>> "Houde, Sean" <[email protected]> 3/9/2009 8:50 AM >>> That’s just it. You’d use all 3 views. Universe is for the topology, Location for the geography, and TopOrg for ownership. The first two are straight-forward, but the third can be carved up whichever way makes most sense to this customer; departments, divisions, regions, however they might be organized. When something goes down, these 3 views collectively identify what, where, and who is impacted, respectively. As for multiple landscapes, there must be some logical division there as well. Perhaps each landscape represents a particular location or organization. The bottom line is that it’s not a question of which view to use. To get the most out of Spectrum, you’d be using all of them. From:Calvin Lane [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:38 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Universe vs World vs TopOrg Greetings SPECTRUM experts, I have a design/methodology/best practice type question. When creating topology views for your customers, what criteria do you use to determine the most appropriate view to develop? I've been in environments where everything was in the Universe while World and TopOrg were left empty. I've also been in environments where there were devices in all of these views. I know that devices in the Universe can be copied to World and/or TopOrg and displayed there. I was just wondering from a best practice perspective what are your considerations prior to locating devices that have been modeled in a fresh environment. In other words, when building the views how do you factor in ip addresses, physical location of devices, geography, etc. Especially as it pertains to environments where there are multiple landscapes. Thanks. Regards, Calvin Lane [email protected] --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
