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I am a visual person and have difficulty using 3000 entry excel datasheet to quickly found information about our datacenter inventory.

Did anyone already used a fps game map editor to make a quick and easily visual representation of their server farm.

14 years ago as a special project at schools we built the 3 floors of my IT college using Duke Nukem 3D and there was a server room there with representation of all the servers at the time.

I would like to do something similar but with metadata and that can be quickly reformat to represent physical location or by services. Since we have services like mail and collaboration servers that can be in different location i would like to be able to just select somethink like Exchange and have all my component shown...

or is there a software solution that already do this.

I am not the datacenter manager, but I am accountable for nealry a thousand component facing the client and i would like to have a quick tool that i can use to visually work with the information.

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By founding information I mean regrouping servers and seeing link between 2 servers or appliance – Hugo Lynch Aug 18 '09 at 17:29
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This almost sounds like it would be better suited for ServerFault – TheTXI Aug 18 '09 at 17:32
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This sounds exactly right for ServerFault (from its FAQ): "If you are in charge of servers, networks, many desktop PCs (other than your own) then you're in the right place to ask your question!" – dbr Aug 18 '09 at 19:05
Also we could say "video games related" :) – Gnoupi Aug 18 '09 at 19:17
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I just used Valve Hammer Editor, it's fun and intuitive. Nevertheless, is not suitable for your purpose. I think you're looking for something more semantic.
Don't limit your search to 3d FPS map editors.

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I think creating a (dynamic) 3D map would be much more work than it's worth..

A better solution would be a 2D map - you could probably put something together quite easily with HTML/CSS, or Flash, or maybe even a 2D game engine (PyGame perhaps?)

(There is undoubtedly software for this around, although I don't know of any)

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Thanks to the TXI.

I didn't know SERVERFAULT community and this is exactly where i would found answers to my questions.

I dont have the exact answers to my question but by a quick search I can found that similar question has already been asked and I will be read the answers there.

Sorry TXI I would have like to give you the Credit but I dont seems to be able to qualify a Comments for Answers.

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