visual modeling tool to create a virtual representation of datacenter floors and racks for monitoring from NOC screens.
While Atlas could be better, I have done these kinds of datacenter and rack elevations dozens of times pretty easily between using Visio and paint.net
It only takes a little practice to get the hang of importing those creations into Atlas and I don't know that the Solarwinds devs could accomplish anything better than other existing and widely available tools without pulling resources away from their core focus. I think let the monitoring suite do monitoring and leave the CAD and graphics stuff to other people.
-Marc Netterfield
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