Manufacturers

Manufacturers

In order to calculate weight, center of gravity, power draw and space allocated, templates need to be created for each type of system that you are going to put into your data center. However, like most parts within openDCIM, this is an optional step - if you only want to utilize openDCIM to take a very basic inventory of your data center, you can simply not assign a template to anything.

Database Information

The fac_Manuacturer table is very simple in that it only has two fields - ManufacturerID and Name. The ManufacturerID is an auto_increment field within MySQL that simply guarantees a unique ID for each Manufacturer.