Why choose NetZoom Visio Stencils?

NetZoom Inc. has successfully established its presence as a provider of data center management solutions for over a decade. IT professionals across various industries, such as finance, retail, healthcare, communications, education, defense, and many others, rely on NetZoom™ software every day to solve their data center needs. Organizations with large, medium and small size data centers will find software solutions for their specific needs.

  • Run as a standalone application from Microsoft Visio.
  • Save time with the RackBuilder template! Build front and rear views simultaneously.
  • Quickly locate devices with the NetZoom search interface.
  • No need to download stencils before using.
  • Subscribers have free access to technical support. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will personally assist you with any questions or concerns. You can also submit your service requests and track them using our service portal at https://service.netzoom.com
  • If there is a network equipment shape that is not in our library, we will create it for no additional charge.
  • Subscribers can request device shapes for no additional charge.
  • If you do not find a stencil you need, you can submit a device stencil request. We will promptly develop your stencil, add to our library and notify you so you can download the stencil.
  • The NetZoom Visio Stencils library is the world’s largest and most comprehensive device library of stencils covering all hardware categories.
  • The NetZoom Visio Stencils library is regularly updated with new equipment shapes and data to represent the latest hardware in the market.
  • It is available for download 24x7
  • You must have a valid subscription to download the full library.

Who Can Benefit From NetZoom Stencils

IT Leaders

IT leaders for maintaining documentation and leveraging it for training, onboarding, and to ensure smooth operations.

Architects

Architects for designing processes, architecture and solutions to optimize business

Support & Service

Support & Service to leverage technology to resolve issues and incidents in a timely fashion and uphold customer expectations

DevOps

DevOps to learn and optimize architecture and communication changes to other areas of the business

AV Technicians

Audio-video technicians for planning and implementing AV setups

Network Professionals

IT professionals managing networks or working in data centers to locate equipment, identify issues, track impacts or troubleshoot and resolve problems.

Data Center Professionals

IT professionals managing networks or working in data centers to plan new additions or changes to the network or data center.

Diagramming Done Right

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Help you analyze current state and plan and coordinate future adds, upgrades, changes and updates to existing infrastructures and architectures. Automated tools can only map what they can discover. Diagramming will be the most valuable mechanism for visually planning, simulating or demonstrating future changes.

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Easily identify and track any asset, locate it, and trace any connection without any guesswork

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Create a central source of truth for collaboration, integration and sharing

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Help you meet compliance standards, assessments and audit needs. Documentation also helps you identify where any critical data originated, is stored, transmitted or received within the network—so as to ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability.

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Visualize and document the current and future state of your network (assets, process and connections) with 100% detail and accuracy

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Helps in reporting any issues and quick and easy asset tracking, impact analysis and troubleshooting problems

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Resolve any incidents or issues quickly and maintain satisfaction an ensuring operations are running smoothly

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Show interdependencies of activities and workflow of project activities

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Help justify time estimate for project and identify opportunities to compress the schedule

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Leverage documentation to show project progress and effectively communicate to stakeholders

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Helps in auditing of infrastructure and assets

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Learning current infrastructure & architecture for optimization, propose any high-level infrastructural changes and communicate proposals

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Planning and implementing A/V setups

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Sending relevant information to a vendor for an RFP without disclosing confidential information

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Selling a network proposal to financial stakeholders

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Helps as documentation for onboarding and training

How NetZoom Stencils Helps You Tackle Your Challenges

  • Continually update diagrams when new moves, adds, changes and removals occur to reflect real-time state. Set alerts and reminders for yourself to do this and updating the revision history.
  • Use ready-to-use drag-and-drop intelligent shapes and stencils that come with embedded manufacturer provided data to build your diagrams in seconds
  • Leverage productivity tools like our RackBuilder templates, that auto-create rear views of racks as you build the front view.
  • Leverage built-in Microsoft Visio capabilities for labeling, connectivity coding, data grid, and visual overlays to add more information and detail to your diagrams through single clicks.
  • Add any custom properties and values to your shapes, and easily leverage them to show pertinent data on labels in your diagram through a few clicks.
  • Automatically display connection details as labels on the connections through settings
  • Create easy links between sheets and diagrams in Microsoft Visio.
  • Auto-create diagram revision history and diagram titles to display
  • Create a diagram standardization document that defines the expectations, and standards.
  • Add diagram keys to track your standards and what they mean and define, to explain what the various lines, colors and shapes are meant to represent
  • Standardize your diagrams by standardizing the layout and formatting for best readability and comprehension between various diagrams as well as between various team members and departments within the organization. This should be defined in the standardization document.
  • Clarity – Have clear points of entry into the diagram to guide the user to the most important information. Diagrams should have easy to identify and read labels and connections that are easy to follow.
  • Represent each equipment, process and connection in your diagrams to 100% accuracy with true-to-life shapes that come with manufacturer-provided data, so you do not have to second guess what is represented or the integrity of the data.
  • Review and validate the accuracy of the diagram with peers before committing and sharing the diagrams.
  • Track dates and revisions. Include who authored the changes, when the changes were made, and a revision numbering scheme to determine what type of update it was (minor, major, etc.)
  • Do not mix physical diagrams with logical diagramming. If you are attempting to show physical connectivity between the access, distribution and core layers in your diagram, don’t also try to cram in any logical information such as VLANs and VRFs. Usually its best to separate both aspects into separate diagrams.
  • If you are tracking massive networks or infrastructures, do not create single giant catch-all diagrams, instead break out into complex diagrams into smaller pieces that are easier to read and navigate , and tie them together in the end.
  • Use sheet or document linking in Microsoft Visio to tie various diagrams to each other to create cohesiveness and accessibility.
  • Scrub sensitive information using layers in Microsoft Visio. Network diagrams often have to be shared with untrusted third parties for a multitude of reasons, however you have to aware not to be handing off any deliverables that contain data that’s highly sensitive, without compromising what needs to be conveyed.
  • Track diagrams in a single repository for easy access, sharing, and for collaborating on changes to the diagrams.
  • Thoroughness and detail - Make sure your diagrams have clear labels that will identify components and connections easily and accurately. Labels can show clear information such as device information, port names, connection descriptions, cable types, encryption strength, wireless networks, version number, last changed date, etc. Use true-to-life views and shapes to represent components in physical diagrams or use industry-standard logical icons where necessary in your logical diagrams. Make sure enough detail is include for an assessor to determine what should be inclusive for an audit if necessary.
  • Have clear titles on the diagrams to mention what it represents, and label any locations appropriately as well.
  • Do not forget to document any appropriate contacts on the diagrams so readers know whom to reach out to for appropriate questions or owners.

Nothing to Install

Say goodbye to the hassles of desktop software. No more outdated versions, lost files, and resource drains. NetZoom Stencils is a single download that works with Microsoft Visio. As long as you are connected to the Internet, you don’t even have to download any updates to the library, they will come right to you!

Supports Scalability

NetZoom Stencils is made with the user in mind. It can support small or large projects, and enable collaboration between a team of 2 to giving visibility to an organization of 200,000 and will continually stay updated to meet your growing needs and grow with you.

All Stencils Share Common Look and Feel

You get the largest library of Microsoft Visio compatible, intelligent shapes with accurate data that are multi-perspective, configurable, customizable, connectable, detailed,accurate, true-to-life, high-quality and scalable.

Project and Solution Agnostic

With NetZoom Stencils, you can take your diagramming to the next level. You can generate logical network diagrams, topologies, physical network diagrams, AV diagrams, rack elevations, custom equipment configurations, data center layouts, and much more

Complete Compatibility for Drag and Drop into Microsoft Visio

NetZoom Visio Stencils works with Visio 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and even language specific versions of Visio on Windows machines.

Find Device Shapes in Seconds

Finding the hardware equipment you need is a cinch. Look up shapes by manufacturer, equipment type, product lines or product numbers, and preview them before using them in your diagrams.