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netViz Professional includes
all the tools you need to visualize data, including:
- Data-embedded graphics
- Create Data-driven graphics
- Search function
- Ability to create hierarchies and do inter-diagram
linking
- Drag-and-drop connections to external
databases
- Previewer - shows thumbnails of the diagrams at the
end of a selected link or the diagram under a selected node
- API Programming Tools
- Web-publishing - Publish your diagrams and
underlying data to the Web (netViz Web-server software must be purchased
separately).
- Export to PowerPoint and HTML
- Over 8,000 graphics, including many vendor-specific
network components
If you plan to link netViz graphical objects to
outside data sources, create data-driven graphics, use the API or publish to
the Web, netViz Professional is for you.
Whats new in netViz 7 (Click the screenshots for
enlarged view)
netViz has added powerful new capabilities to help
your organization automate many of the IT and business related documentation
tasks. One of the new features is the ability to have a single object be
represented by different graphics depending on its data value.
Additionally, netViz 7.0 allows for the graphics to change fill color, line
color, line thickness, blinking status, rotation, or as described above show an
entirely different graphic, dependent on data values.
 With netViz 7.0, we introduce
macro fields—essentially embedded data fields that can be set to
calculate compound values or fetch data from elsewhere in the project. These
Macros are powerful because they add automated intelligence to the netViz
projects.
 Until now, there was not an easy way
to create a high-level business view of critical infrastructure
components. This new features allows selected visual overrides to propagate up
through the project to warn when a critical situation needs attention. For
example, in a network, if a router goes down, netViz can cause all of the
router’s parents and ancestor nodes to blink, so that a user who opens the
project will see a blinking site, containing the down router. When a low-level
business process generates an alarm, the alarm can propagate to the top level,
notifying that an issue exists immediately, with the ability to drill down to
the issue. The netViz alert mechanism provides a great way to supply critical
information in a high level view.
 netViz 7.0 provides the ability to
set one double-click behavior (what happens when you click on an object) for
multiple objects of that type. For example, this feature can be used to set
every Cisco Router to open a Cisco support page, when the icon is double
clicked. Setting this double click behavior by type will automatically be
inherited by every instance of that type throughout the netViz
project.
 Larger Page Size. In netViz 7.0 larger print sizes are
supported, so that printing to plotters and other large documents can be
accomplished.
 Password protection. If more than one person is accessing
a netViz project, now an optional password protection is available. The netViz
project file can be protected with two levels of password—Open-Project and
Administrative.
 Export Usability and
Performance Export capabilities of netViz have been improved in netViz 7.0.
Usability of exporting to Powerpoint has been improved as well maintaining the
double-click behavior. Also, export to Visio has been improved to provide
higher quality drawing output, as well as greater export speed.
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