Data Centre & Server Room Documentation

One set of devices, several views of them

A server room is usually documented in four places that drift apart: a topology diagram, rack elevations, a cable schedule in a spreadsheet and an asset list somewhere else. In DrawNet.ai they are views of the same devices. Move a switch to another rack and its cables, its elevation and its place in the inventory follow — there is nothing to keep in step by hand.

• Diagram: every port clickable, cables drawn port to port, routed in one click.
• Racks: each device in its rack, front and rear, with its real ports on the faceplate and where each cable goes; patch panels front and back.
• Room: racks laid out on the floor in rows, with the hot and cold aisles shown, a heat view by rack density, and several rooms in one project.
• Power: a sheet of its own for power cabling — PDUs, supplies and breakers — with A/B feeds checked and the load of each circuit.

From the drawing to the job on site

• Cable lengths and what to order: an estimate for every cable from where its two ends stand, rounded to lengths that are sold, with the quantities for the order.
• Cable labels: two per cable, one for each end, printed on label sheets or a label printer roll.
• Work orders: compare the site as it is with the planned drawing, and get the moves, adds and changes to carry out, in the order they are done.
• Patch panel maps: for each rack, where every panel port goes, to tape inside the door.

Lengths, loads, heat and weights are calculated from what is drawn and what is entered. They are estimates, said to be so wherever they appear, and meant to be checked on site before anything is ordered or installed.

Capacity, power and inventory

• Capacity: free units, free switch and panel ports, and power left in every rack, at a glance.
• Power and weight: a power budget per rack and per feed, rack load and floor load, with a warning when a limit is passed.
• Inventory: serial number, asset tag, management IP, warranty and weight on each device, in a table that imports and exports CSV.

Works with NetBox

An existing site documented in NetBox can be drawn from its devices, racks and cables exports. In the other direction, a design made in DrawNet.ai exports to the files NetBox's bulk import takes — so the drawing can be where a room is planned, and NetBox where it is recorded.

AI where it saves typing

Describe a rack's equipment — "two top-of-rack switches, eight 1U servers, a 24-port patch panel" — and it is added and racked. Ask for a device to go between two others, or for a cable between two that are drawn, and the rest of the drawing is left as it is.

No account, nothing to install

It runs in the browser; drawings stay on your machine and save to a plain file. Free for personal use and labs; for work done for an employer or a client, one organisation licence a year covers the whole team.