Visio 2010 gives us tremendous flexibility in storing and reporting on shape metadata.įor that matter, the subject of pipelining in external data into a Visio 2010 diagram warrants one or more blog posts on its own. You can now attach metadata to each network shape in the diagram. In Visio shape connection points are denoted by blue Xs when you glue a shape to a connection point, this effectively links the shapes together.įinally, navigate to the Data ribbon tab and select Shape Data Window. Look at the next screenshot: do you see the little red squares? This denotes a glue to connection point operation. Next, select a shape from a stencil and drag it into the rack. Next, you can load up your custom third-party stencils by clicking More Shapes > Open Stencil from the Shapes window. The default size of the rack is 42 rack units ( Us) however, you can resize the rack to adjust for your preferred dimension.
Once you have the template loaded, you can bring out the Rack shape from the Quick Shapes or Rack-mounted Equipment stencils. Open Visio 2010, and from the default Backstage view, select the Network template category, and then the Rack Diagram template.
Most of these shapes have associated shape data such that you can track details regarding each element in your infrastructure. Most IT hardware vendors are overjoyed to provide you with detailed Visio shapes that model their equipment. The good news is that these are amazingly easy to come by. Thus, if you need or want to model real-world gear, you will need to obtain original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-provided Visio stencils. Third, you need to know that Microsoft Visio 2010 includes vendor-neutral shapes in its built-in stencil set. Thus, if you are a systems administrator you will want to avoid Visio Standard 2010 and instead purchase a license for Visio Professional 2010 or Visio Premium 2010. Second, only two of the three Visio 2010 stock keeping units (SKUs) include the rack diagram template. NOTE: Mac OS X users tend to get a lot of mileage from Omnigraffle for their business process visualization needs.
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