Automating Infrastructure

Documentation With Microsoft Visio

David Cuthbertson
Square Mile Systems / AssetGen
 A Few Questions
• Anyone here attended the workshops in 2014, 2016 or 2018?

• Which is easier and faster to complete?

a. Updating a Visio drawing with changes
b. Re-drawing into Visio a drawing sent in Cad/PDF/JPEG/BMP

• What has to happen to have 6500 racks drawn with consistent

format and detail by different engineers?
 This Workshop Will Show
• What can be reduced with Visio
workload - skills dependent
cost - $26 or $20,000
time - 16 minutes or 25 days
• How to improve diagram quality and accuracy
• All of which you can do later today - yourself!!
Visio Automation Agenda
1. Understand Visio – out of the box
2. Diagramming techniques
- Making it simpler for all
3. Linking Visio to data sources
- Reduce cut/paste, diagram refresh, consistency
4. Automation for larger infrastructures
- Automated creation and updating
Diagrams Are Very Useful!
 If A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

How do we paint a thousand pictures?

Consistent in data and format?
 Understanding IT Dependencies Isn’t Easy
Many 1,000s of documents are created by Data Diagrams
projects, operations and risk processes
Commercial Physical Logical Business

Ownership Room LAN System

Support Rack SAN Service

Virtual
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Machines

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Rack Floor Plan ITIL Service Map Data Flows/Capacity
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Diagrams Also Cover Processes/Timelines
Design Deployment Build Change
Projects
Team Planning Team Mgmt.

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Review

Forward booking
Outline schedule Book
Design Doc Contractor

Update Allocated
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Capacity Plan

Deployment
design QA Check

Change from reserved

to allocated
Handover
Accept/Reject Detailed
Release Schedule Change
Accept Plan

Reject
Confirm
Contractors
 Information Gaps Cause Pain – Cost, time, quality
1. Buy things you don’t need
2. Don’t buy things you do need
3. Reverse engineer with every project
4. Fault resolution takes longer
5. Problems escalate with distractions
6. Unnecessary site surveys
7. Project timescales are not predictable
8. Repeated “one off” audits
9. Overload key individuals
10. Less confidence in security controls
11. Inability to optimise team processes
12. Unplanned change disruption
13. Duplicate what can’t be found
Business Processes
Departmental, Company
Services
End user, infrastructure, supplier
Applications
PC, server, mainframe, SOA
Virtual Infrastructure
PCs, Network, Servers, Storage, DBMS
Hardware Infrastructure
PCs, Network, Servers, UPS, Storage, Other
Fixed Infrastructure
(Cabling, Power, Cabinets, Rooms, Buildings)
1. Visio Basics
• Visio history
• 1992 First released, 2000 acquired by Microsoft
• Last non-MS versions had auto-discovery, equipment templates – all removed
with Visio 2003
• Versions
• Visio 2019 Standard
• Visio 2019 Professional
• Visio Pro For Office 365
• Visio Viewer (runs in IE browser, outlook) 11

• Visio app for iOS

• Visio online Web based collaboration
Which Version - Standard or Professional?
• No thought required – Go for Professional!
• Why?
• More extensive selection of shapes
• Data linking (look for data tab)
• Data graphics – saves typing and redrawing diagrams
• Visio extras
• An hour saved in a year makes it worth it! 12
Visio Resources And Help
• Microsoft web site
• Books
• LinkedIn group – Visio Enthusiasts
• Equipment manufacturer web sites
• Cisco, CommScope, Siemon
• HP, Dell, IBM, others www.visiocafe.com www.shapesource.com
• 3rd Party stencils
• netZoom, others www.altimatech.com
• Visioguy forum www.visguy.com
Templates, Stencils, Shapes
Categories

Templates

Stencils

Shape
Visio Concepts and terms
SW-BHAM-01 Properties

• Template Cisco 2950

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• Stencil
• Shape Data Centre

• Shape properties
• Connector
• Background RTR-BHAM-01

• Layer Comms Room

Visio Basics -1
• Creating new diagram from a template
• Manipulating shapes on a page
• Aligning and Distributing Shapes
• Copy, Paste and Duplicate Shapes
• Grouping and ungrouping shapes
• Foreground and Background options
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• Zooming in and Out of the Page
• Using the Drawing Toolbar to create basic shapes
Visio Basics - 2
• Connectors
• Static and dynamic glue
• Adding, deleting and moving connector points
• Using different stencils
• Stencil search
• Shape behaviour -1d, 2d, drill down
• Working with text
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• Object text
• Freeform text
• Text block tool
Static glue
• Static glue is to a
particular connection
point
• The connection points
used don’t move even
if the shapes are
moved 18
Dynamic glue
• Drag connector onto shape
and wait until shape is
highlighted in red
• If you move the shapes
relative to each other the
connection moves
appropriately
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Using Different Stencils (and searching)
• Use Shapes tab
• Select via menus
• Use Search options
• External stencil
sets
• Suppliers, 3rd party
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Danger! - Visio File Sizes

Two files
Diagram 1 1995kB
Diagram 2 12kB

Diagram 1 is 166 times the size of Diagram 2!

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Some tips to reduce file sizes

2. Diagramming Techniques
Good diagramming practice

1. The detail that you see

- What is seen visually / printed
2. Additional data / information within diagram
- Additional action by viewer – display, click, show layer, etc.
3. How you get to other information 22

- Drill down, open files, launch remote session

The Process of Creating a Diagram
1. Purpose

2. Gather data

3. Define shapes 1. Which takes the most time?

Transfer data
4.
to diagram 2. Where can errors creep in?
5. Layout

6. Add extra
detail

7. Save

8. Send / publish
diagram

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Diagram Process Examples
Network Diagram
1. Purpose Rack Diagram R01
Orlando LAN

Select Rack R01 Switches / Router

2. Gather data
Inventory W S- X6K-SU P1 A-2 GE

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Physical Shapes Logical Shapes

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Transfer data Create Shapes

4. Create Shapes
to diagram and connections

Place/size Move/size
5. Layout
to position in rack for readability

6. Add extra
Notes, etc. Notes, etc.
detail

7. Save as Save as
Save
Rack R01 Orlando LAN

8. Send / publish Store on server Store on server

diagram Intranet/SharePoint Intranet/SharePoint

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Is This A Good Diagram?

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Does It Have These Characteristics?
1. Title

2. Purpose

3. Author

4. Version

5. Date

6. Instructions

7. Symbols

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9. Connections

10. Grouping

11. Background / layers

Visio Examples

• Floor plans
• Importing CAD / other formats
• Layers
• Data center floor plans
• Backgrounds
• Hyperlinking
3. Linking Visio To Data Sources

• Saves typing mistakes

• Enables refresh of data
• One diagram can serve multiple purposes
• Less to maintain
• Multiple views of one device
• Less to maintain
• Enables use Of Data Graphics Feature
Understanding Reality
To understand infrastructure and
manage change

We need multiple views

• Rack schematics
• Equipment configuration
• Physical connectivity
• Logical end point connectivity
• End device connectivity
Types Of Information / Documentation
What should be updated with a server or network change?
1. Update project documentation with “as built” details
2. Update asset/inventory list PROLIANT

3. Update rack diagrams PROLIANT

4. Update network patching records

5. Update switch port usage and capacity PROLIANT

6. Update floor plan rack capacity

7. Update power usage spreadsheet(s)
8. Update storage / backup system documentation CRITICAL

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The larger the environment – the more there is….

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Power Supply
Multiple Device Instances in Diagrams

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H/W Build
Rack Position

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Network Connections
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Floor Plan
Reducing The Workload!

Excel Visio

Floor box list Floor plan

Cabinet list Equipment room floor plan

Patch panel list Backbone cabling diagram

Inventory Network diagram

Inventory Rack diagram

Inventory Server connectivity diagram

Using External Data Sources
New 1. Purpose 1. Purpose Updating

2. Gather data Time 2. Gather data

saving
Check diagram
3. Define shapes 3.
for match

Transfer data Add / Delete shape

4. 4.
to diagram Connector, Data

5. Layout 5. Review Layout

Add extra Add extra

6. 6.
detail detail

7. Save 7. Save

Send / publish 8. Send / publish

8.
diagram diagram
Visio Data Graphics

• Standard feature 2007/10/13/16/19 Professional

• Enables use of embedded data

• Display multiple text fields around a shape
SW-BHAM-09
• Data bars to show capacity Switch
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• Change shape colour based on data value 3745

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Limitations Of Visio / Data Source

• Good for quick diagrams

• The data transfer and refresh is automated, but the
filtering and selection is manual
• It doesn’t connect shapes together
• Limits value in a network environment
• Devices are not added / deleted on diagrams
First Steps For Multiple Diagrams
• Control use of shapes / stencils
• Follow best practices for diagram information
• Save reference versions in common areas
• File locations
• Web site
• SharePoint
• Use a common source where possible for shape data
• Databases preferred to spreadsheets
• Create views to suit diagram information need 36
4. Automation For Larger Infrastructures
• Looking beyond a few spreadsheets 1800 locations
• Minimise manual maintenance effort Overnight updates
• Scale and separation of roles demands it
• Improving accuracy and consistency auto selection
• Software driven diagram production
• Infrastructure document management save/publish
• Shared across teams, controlled access

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Automating Documentation - Example
• Manual method – draw a rack diagram 2 – 5 hours
• Gather rack inventory data and positioning
• Find Visio shapes for equipment
• Draw the rack

• Automated method with software 10 seconds

• Tick rack for cabinet drawing
• Visio rack diagram produced

• 100 racks – 16 minutes or 25 days or $26 vs $20,000 ($100hr)

• 6500 racks???
Automated Enterprise Drawing
• Should we draw and redraw diagrams in Visio or have a GUI that
does this with a database?
• Yes for simple views (i.e. rack, path) DCIM/CMS approach
• No for anything that requires layout or crosses technologies
• Physical – floor plans, blown fiber, cabling runs, OSP
• Logical – LAN/SAN/VLAN/WAN/VLAN system

• If we are refreshing data, then we have to update existing

shapes, adding/removing shapes and connectors.
• Beyond Excel/Visio data linking
• Database driven systems
Extending Visio Automation
New 1. Purpose 1. Purpose Updating
2. Gather data Time 2. Gather data
saving
Check diagram
3. Define shapes 3.
for match

Transfer data Add / Delete shape

4. 4.
to diagram Connector, Data

5. Layout 5. Review Layout

Add extra Add extra

6. 6.
detail detail

7. Save 7. Save

Send / publish 8. Send / publish

8.
diagram diagram
Simple Goals
• Draw 60 rack diagrams and save on a file server, in folders
listed by room location
• Check and update 100 site network diagrams with changes
in devices, connections and data
• Refresh an updated set of build documents covering racks,
hardware, cabling, power within a data center transition
project
• When – now, tonight, every Friday
Many Infrastructure Information Needs

Plan Build Operate Risk Dispose

Project and tasks Operations And Risk Control

Ease and speed of creation Ease of use by many
Ease of distribution Structured for integration & reporting
Flexible to meet task needs Support for multiple processes
Limited training Wide scope – the big picture!

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Project documentation Asset and Inventory management
Equipment lists Business / service dependencies
Visio/CAD diagrams Monitoring of performance, status
Test results Risk and Recovery
 Infrastructure Documentation Workflow
Project / Design teams Operations
Could we get the
project teams to
update operational
Build / Visio diagrams?
Contractors
Audit
team

Operations Toolsets
- Service desk
- Monitoring
- Asset tracking
Repository - Capacity
Diagram Automation Examples
Network Diagram
1. Purpose Rack Diagram R01
Las Vegas LAN

Select Rack R01 Switches / Router

2. Gather data
Inventory W S- X6K-SU P1 A-2 GE

in Las Vegas SW-BHAM-Trade01

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SYSTEM
STATUS

ACTIVE

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Physical Shapes Logical Shapes

WS-C6509-E

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Transfer data Create Shapes

4. Create Shapes
to diagram and connections

Place/size Move/size
5. Layout
to position in rack for readability

6. Add extra
Notes, etc. Notes, etc.
detail

7. Save as Save as
Save
Rack R01 Las Vegas LAN

8. Send / publish Store on server Store on server

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Maintain - Infrastructure Knowledge

Plan Build Operate Risk Dispose

Project and tasks Operations And Risk Control

Ease and speed of creation Ease of use by many
Ease of distribution Structured for integration & reporting
Flexible to meet task needs Support for multiple processes
Limited training Wide scope – the big picture!

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Record planning decisions in the operational system
Produce project docs for/from the operational system
Good Data = Good Diagrams
1. Establish policies, standards and ownership of data and diagrams.
Make it simpler and easier for engineers and managers

2. Have project / operations use common terms & formats

Supply templates, naming system, labels, etc.

3. Reduce the numbers of documents / files to maintain

Consolidate into centralised systems and make them easy to find
Link / create / update Visio diagrams, reports, excel from databases

4. Use operational systems to support planning processes as much as possible

Save discovery time and improve consistency
This Workshop Has Shown

• What can be reduced with Visio

workload - skills dependent
cost - $26 or $20,000
time - 16 minutes or 25 days
• How to improve diagram quality and accuracy
All of which you can do later today - yourself!!
Visio Automation Tips and Techniques
• Lots of productivity features are unknown
• Save yourself and others a lot of effort planning and managing infrastructure!
• Learn more about Visio – lots of free materials

• Linking to existing data sources has many benefits

• Less errors, easier to refresh diagrams and update them
• Use the data graphics feature to reduce diagram numbers

• For larger environments

• Assess the value of automation and database driven systems
Additional Materials
www.microsoft.com

www.assetgen.com
Evaluation software Free “DCIM/CMS” evaluation version
Webinars Data center practices, Visio integration
Free Visio utilities Data centers, network, floor plans, modular fiber

www.squaremilesystems.com
Documentation services Downloads and videos
Training/webinars/videos Onsite/remote Visio training, documentation methods, etc.