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Differences between EasyDCIM v1.3.1 and v1.4.0 are clearly visible to the naked eye. While many of them expand the functionalities of the system, the most important ones are oriented towards your daily experience with our system. The latest EasyDCIM will let you fine-tune its behavior to your needs and achieve the same goals with little to none effort. See for yourself! One of the most vivid examples of change is the feature used on a daily basis by many administrators. So far, adding a completely new device to EasyDCIM required you to go through multiple sections and tabs related to e.g. model and type. The whole process was quite time-consuming. Now, you can do everything in a simple form without the necessity to set up a dozen of parameters in many sections. Define the type, choose/create the model, name your device, set the IP address and you are ready to go. The whole operation is 3 times less time than before! Another novelty worth mentioning is dynamic table columns. Before EasyDCIM v1.4.0, you were allowed to display only a previously predefined set of columns. You were not able to modify this set or display numerous data columns, as simply there was not enough space on the screen to show them so we presented you only a small piece of all available information. This state of affairs has been thoroughly changed. Now you can decide which information should be displayed on the screen in each section and choose from over a hundred options! For instance, you can enjoy easy access to the new server data like: Last Day Traffic Last Month Traffic Serial Number Manufacturer Position ...and many more! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHVaqnW4UNw[/embed] What else has changed in the latest EasyDCIM? Honestly, every single section! Keep your eyes wide open and do not forget to let us know what you think about the direction into which our system is currently developing. Learn more about EasyDCIM v1.4.0 - the evolution of revolution! EasyDCIM then and now - see the comparison between v1.3.1 and v1.4.0

EasyDCIM has undergone radical changes over the past few months - not only in its very core, but also in the offered functionalities and the UI, of course. All these alterations have a common factor which is the constant striving to improve our system and thereby let you manage your data center with the utmost ease. If we can change EasyDCIM to help you save even a couple of minutes a day, we will! Since actions speak louder than words do, let's get down to the nitty-gritty. We would like to show you why and how the latest EasyDCIM v1.4.0 has changed in the comparison to the previous version 1.3.1, as well as the way it affects Admin Experience and the business results you achieve at the end of the day. Our menu will have the first fire. We have changed it because it was too small, hard to navigate and not working fast enough. It has been redesigned to be easier to use and much faster. We have also added the list of quick actions, allowing you to perform frequently used operations with no hassle. [easyrotator]erc_49_1504105742[/easyrotator] Next, the forms which have been basically rewritten. They are now optimized, much more transparent and include examples. Time-saving effect during daily activities guaranteed! [easyrotator]erc_81_1504107546[/easyrotator] We have created a completely new, fully responsive design for EasyDCIM. Regardless of what mobile device you currently hold in your hands, our fresh UI will assure effortless navigation and your comfort of use. [easyrotator]erc_94_1504107962[/easyrotator] The differences are really impressive, aren't they? [easyrotator]erc_10_1504108695[/easyrotator] While the entire system has been redesigned, we would like to bring the new dashboard and fonts to your attention. Now your single pane of glass is not only well organized, but also very clear thanks to changing the font from Open Sans to Roboto. [easyrotator]erc_17_1504108293[/easyrotator] The admin area in EasyDCIM is based on fully customizable widgets. We have relocated their action menu to the upper right corner and enhanced widgets' behavior. You will no longer miss anything! [easyrotator]erc_30_1504108529[/easyrotator] Last but not least, the breadcrumbs. We have standardized their presence in EasyDCIM and adjusted their display to clearly inform you about your current position in our control panel. These are just the highlights of some of the changes introduced in new EasyDCIM v1.4.0. Hope you find them really useful. One thing is certain. Now, you will spend much less time to achieve the same results. This is what we call a great boost in Admin Experience! What do you think about the recent enhancements? Do you have any idea of what we could improve in the next versions? Let us know in the comment section below! Have not heard about EasyDCIM v1.4.0 yet? Time to catch up with the novelties!

To stand still is to move back. No matter the circumstances, there is always a room for improvement. Duh! Even for sweeping changes - a quantum leap in Admin Experience! We listen very carefully to your priceless comments and we value our common talks about EasyDCIM dearly. We believe that a great system is the perfect combination of our collective ideas and experiences. In one of our recent publications we have mentioned that running your own data center is a challenging task - that is true. But together we will make it really simple and trouble-free! How can we achieve that? With a true milestone in the history of our control panel named proudly EasyDCIM v1.4.0! Undoubtedly, you are now wondering what is so extraordinary in the latest version of EasyDCIM that made us call this release groundbreaking. Starting with v1.3.0, we initiated a fresh approach to further development of our system - focused clearly on the way you interact with EasyDCIM and the way it influences your daily work. How you use it to achieve your goals, the way it helps you overcome business problems and the time you spend to make desired things happen. This is our target, to make your business day much more productive! Under the banners of Admin Experience and v1.4.0 we have: Redesigned the UI of the entire system - making it much more user-friendly and intuitive Prepared new, fully responsive design for mobile devices Improved performance and reduced loading time of pages Added fresh features related to e.g. item types, VLANs, automation, orders, and servers Enhanced many technical aspects of the system These are just the highlights of the most important changes and we are well aware of the fact that you would love to learn more, and you definitely will! In the upcoming days, we will prepare a few more Blog articles about new, ingenious functionalities introduced in the EasyDCIM v1.4.0, like the brand new menu with updated navigation, enhanced forms, adding devices, usability improvements, design changes and more! Last but not least, we have also released two new versions of our modules: OS Installation For EasyDCIM 1.1.0 with tons of new features mostly designed for the NOC-PS submodule IP Address Management For EasyDCIM 1.5.1 with updated subnet & pool summary and several improvements connected strictly with IP subnets Before this article becomes way too long, just check out some of the hottest screenshots of EasyDCIM v1.4.0 below and visit our changelog to learn more! Eager to perform the update of your current installation? Download our free Updater Script or simply ask our Team for assistance. As always, stay tuned for more information and Blog articles coming out soon. Do not forget to share your feedback about your new EasyDCIM! [easyrotator]erc_57_1502897395[/easyrotator] See The Changelog!

Running your own data center is a challenging task but taking absolute control over it is a truly hard one. Thankfully, the new EasyDCIM is here to make your life much easier! Our fully featured control panel needs no introduction, but a brief mention about the latest functionalities introduced in version 1.3.1 will surely intrigue you. EasyDCIM now supports device bays that represent the capability of a parent device to store the child devices. For instance, 4 bays can be created and assigned to a single blade server of the height of 2U. Bays can be sorted freely according to requirements. The next novelty is support for non-racked devices of the height of 0U assigned to the rack. We have also facilitated the management of racks as well as enabled your customers to view all the IP addresses and subnets assigned to their devices directly in the client area. Of course, new EasyDCIM v1.3.1 has much more to offer in terms of new features and interesting changes. One of these changes is represented by refreshed IP Address Management For EasyDCIM 1.5.0 with a new gamut of possibilities. The updated module will allow you to assign multiple devices and VLANs to IP subnets, split IP subnets upon choosing a relevant mask and access detailed summary. A must-have tool, no doubts! To cap off our post, we would like to present you the latest screenshots of new functionalities that you will not find anywhere else, and invite you to visit our changelog to learn more about EasyDCIM v1.3.1! [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="1017,1016,1018,1020,1019,1021"] Go To Changelog!

Attention! This article contains release spoilers. You are reading it on your own risk! Before we proceed to the main course, we would like to highlight the release of EasyDCIM v1.3.1 that will take place within no longer than a week! The upcoming edition of our system will be equipped with many improvements under the sign of Admin Experience, including but not limited to support for device bays or non-racked devices and various display enhancements that will make your daily work much easier and much faster. What is more, we will also release the next version of IP Address Management For EasyDCIM module with several completely new features like subnet splitting or assigning multiple devices to subnets. More info will show up really soon so stay tuned! Turning to the subject of EasyDCIM v1.4.0, we could have summarized it with a brief statement - it's time to beautify! Having the above in mind, our team is working really hard to make your experience with EasyDCIM way more pleasant and efficient. Therefore we will redesign its whole UI! Take a look at the first preview of the upcoming update and... expect the unexpected as these screenshots are just the beta version of the new design! [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="954,955,957"] Let us know what you think about the new interface in the comment section below and please summon up a little patience until the version 1.4.0 is ready to launch :)

PHP 7 was officially released nearly one and a half years ago. Nowadays, its ubiquity in the whole IT industry does not surprise anyone. However, introducing a fresh technology to your product is one thing, but to do it right and exploit its full potential is quite another. In EasyDCIM we are definitely on the other side! Our goal was to squeeze maximum performance out of our system - and we succeeded. In our previous Blog article about performance comparison between v1.2.3 & v1.3.0 we prepared for you a detailed tally with hard facts on various loading times' differences. This time we would like to show you a more vivid proof that the new EasyDCIM v1.3.0 on PHP 7 works even two times faster than its previous version on PHP 5. The short animation below presents the time required to find a desired server among the hundreds of devices on EasyDCIM v1.2.3 (PHP5) and EasyDCIM v1.3.0 (PHP7). Our tests have been carried out on an identical machine with the identical number of devices. Quite a difference, isn't it? On thousands of devices it would have been even greater! Have not seen the latest, turbocharged EasyDCIM v.1.3.0 yet? Visit our website and ask for a free demo version!

Nearly two weeks have passed since we released the latest version of EasyDCIM. How time flies! V1.3.0 is featured with tons of amazing changes, among which full support for PHP 7 is definitely one of the most interesting ones. Heading towards improving Admin Experience in our system, we have begun with a tremendous performance boost. Not to leave that seemingly bold statement in limbo, we have prepared a detailed comparison of various loading times between the current version and the previous one. Grab a cup of hot tea, coffee or anything you like and take a look at hard facts on how much time you will save with new EasyDCIM v1.3.0. Our tests have been carried out on an identical machine with the same measuring methods: DOMContentLoaded and load by MDN. OVH Machine: KVM OpenStack 1 vCore 2,4 GHz 2 GB RAM SSD 10 GB Local Raid 10 Testing Environments: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 | 100 servers + 10 switches (all with SNMP support) Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 | 100 servers + 10 switches (all with SNMP support)   Table for DOMContentLoadedTable for load Seconds Per Page Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS + PHP 5.5.9 Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS + PHP 7.0.15 Servers List (10 per page) 5.52 2.08 6.51 3.20 Servers List (20 per page) 6.51 3.54 10.56 5.42 Servers List (50 per page) 14.33 4.12 33.94 9.25 Server Summary Page 2.29 2.18 3.13 2.57 Server Network Interfaces 2.35 1.90 2.90 1.94 Network Devices List (10 per page) 2.57 1.96 6.88 3.34 Dashboard 3.67 2.20 4.12 2.23 Now let's take a glance at the charts below to visualize the magnitude of changes. It is apparent that new EasyDCIM v1.3.0, which fully utilizes the potential of PHP 7, works much faster than its predecessor - v1.2.3. As you can see, in several instances the loading time of pages is even more than two times shorter! What will you do with that extra time saved each day? From now on it is totally up to you!

EasyDCIM - the project which started 3 years ago is now in full blossom! Our system has gained trust of many enterprises and now we stand before you with yet another groundbreaking update. With today's release we would like to jump-start a new direction of EasyDCIM further development. The keyword phrase of this positive change will be called Admin Experience! The release of EasyDCIM v1.3.0 is another milestone in the rapid growth of our control panel. Let's start with the fact that now EasyDCIM fully supports PHP 7! What does it change? Among many other aspects, its performance! Now EasyDCIM works much faster and smoother than ever, reaching even up to 100% performance boost! To prove our bragging is nothing but legit, we will create two separate Blog articles with the comparisons soon :D Another important change in version 1.3.0 is support for another operating system - Debian 8.7 "Jessie" and support for the latest Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS! In EasyDCIM we put strong emphasis on the system's intuitiveness, ease of use and time you have to spend on making the right decisions, performing various actions to control your data center and react to rapidly changing situations. A good piece of software should be fully featured, however simple to use. Time is of the essence and we really want you to make the most of it. Why should you waste it on needless actions that can be automated and simplified? The answer is revealed in EasyDCIM v1.3.0 and our new approach to admin experience - guiding us to the upcoming updates. We will introduce series of changes allowing to automate and manage your whole business with no hassle. How will new EasyDCIM make your daily work more efficient? Starting with freshly added dynamic table columns enabling the selection of exact columns to be displayed - particularly useful for large data volumes. Another novelty is the possibility to display last hour traffic in servers/devices tables and to sort them freely by a chosen parameter. Thanks to this feature, you will no longer miss excessive resource usage or DDoS, and will be able to react accordingly in mere seconds! One of many improvements of such is also an enhanced rack view, enriched with an icon showing the status of a device, so a quick glance at your machines will now be more than enough to check their status. Convenient, isn't it? Just wait until you see the full changelog! Go To Changelog [gallery size="medium" link="file" ids="770,768,769"]

EasyDCIM, a golden opportunity to empower your data center, is the system with a vast number of functionalities. It is not an easy task to thoroughly document every single functionality and usage scenario - but why not give it a shot? A good way to start will be a step-by-step guide on how to capably add device and IPMI configuration in your system. Let's get going right away! If you want to quickly add a device in EasyDCIM then the best choice would be to use the Auto Discovering form. You will find it in the left side menu, unfolding successively 'Services & Devices' → 'Servers' → 'Auto Discovering' tabs. Remember that before adding a device you have to configure SNMP properly on the specific server, so EasyDCIM will be able to connect remotely to the device and download all the necessary information about it. Filling in the form is not something to be done the hard way – you only need to give some details. The first thing to provide is hostname or IP address of the device. Then you select the version of SNMP that is configured on the server and complete the SNMP Public Community field for v1 and v2c. If you are using SNMP v3, the other fields must be filled in as well. After clicking ‘Save Changes’ button, the system will automatically try to connect to a device using SNMP. When the whole process is successful, you will be automatically redirected to a page with a summary of the device: Auto Discovering automatically detects not only basic information about the device but also information about installed parts such as hard drives, RAM or processor. During this process all the network interfaces of the device are also added. Thanks to that the administrator does not have to bind them manually: After a few minutes the system, in the process of pooling, will automatically retrieve additional information about the device, traffic of individual ports and other useful data. All that using SNMP. The server has been added in just a few seconds and the only thing left to do now is the IPMI settings configuration. IPMI protocol allows us to remotely manage a device by performing actions like boot/reboot/shutdown. If the device is of Supermicro or Dell Drac (from version 6) type, we can additionally use the KVM console which is retrieved while using the CURL protocol. To set up a connection to the IPMI, choose ‘Settings’ from the top ‘Actions’ menu: Then, go to the ‘IPMI Settings’ tab and fill the appropriate fields such as IPMI IP Address, IPMI Username, IPMI Password and IPMI Protocol Version. After saving changes, use the ‘Test IPMI Connection’ button to check the connection. And that is basically all. Within a few moments we have added and pre-configured our device. So now we can manage it remotely using IPMI protocol, and also, using SNMP, monitor usage of transfer on specific server ports. Voila! One of the hundreds of EasyDCIM nooks has been just exposed to make your daily experience with our control panel much easier. We hope that you find this little tutorial useful. Shall we do more of these? Feel free to leave a comment below!