OZmap is a software of documentation of FTTX networking architecture created with the goal of better organization and better management of time and resources.
We created this guide about every available tool in the software, for you learn how to use it.
Projects
Your first step using the software will be creating a project.
A project represents the delimitation of a networking architecture, including poles, boxes, clients, POPs. Usually the projects are divided into towns, but if the town is too big or too small, it can be divided either in neighbourhoods or in regions gathering little towns.
Check out our articles about projects:
- Creating your first project
Backups
This is a very important subject: you must be familiar with the Backups and you need to be used to creating it, mainly before a big change in your project.
Elements inside the project
To access the markup elements, you have to click on the first icon - the one that has a "plus" (+) sign, just like the image:
You can find below the menu with the options:
Following the image, each number represents the name of one element:
- Poles
- Multiple poles
- Boxes
- Multiple boxes
- Cables
- Clients
- Prospects
- Vertical buildings
- Horizontal Condominums
- COs
Each of these elements have special settings and will fill your map.
Network tools
To acess the network tools you can click on the second button of the menu, as shown in the image below:
After clicking in the button, the tools will appear as the image:
All this tools are useful to the network analysis:
- Metrics
- Online distance
- Search by
- Generate an area for reporting
Map tools
They can be found on the third icon, as in the image below:
- Adjacencies
- Heat map
- Show box names
Data import
It is possible to import data from other softwares, as KML from Google Earth to OZmap. So if you have this data recorded in other places and want to migrate to OZmap, you can do it very easily.
Ilumination
Through the resource of ilumination, you can highlight the path of the network and can visualize in a very clear way the routes between cables, boxes, clients, central offices, until the PON port. This function makes a lot more easier to see if the element are connected or not.
Pendencies
The pendencies will allow you to create and assign to the users of OZmap tasks to be done, with the possibility of using it on OZmob as well. The button below will allow you to add new pendencies in the map.
Network diagnostics
The functionality of netwrok diagnostic allows the user to verify the situation of the network communication with the server and to check if it is going through some instability. It can be accessed on the highlighted button:
Type of elements
The OZmap's elements can be classified by types, meaning the different models of certain object.
Every edition of the types can be done on the left menu of OZmap. You can check one by one:
- Types of boxes
- Types of cables
- Types of OLT
- Types of ODF
- Types of splitter
- Types of ODF
- Types of switch
- Types of connector
- Types of fusion
- Types of region
- Types of pendencies
Map of problems
The section of "Problems" allows the visualization of how many and which ones are the clients that have the status of "error", making easier the grouping of information about these clients.
OTDR
When a fiber is broken, you can use the OTDR to measure the distance of the facture. If you set this information in OZmap, it will give you the exact localization where the fiber was damaged.
User
It is possible to create new users and define the type of access, which modules and projects. There is also the settings of roles that categorizes the functions and the resources that the user can visualize.
Settings of the system
In this section you can define details of exportation of images as sketches and images of the boxes, also the feasibility by poles in Loki.
API
We have a very dynamic API to interact with another systems.