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What Cenovel models

The five kinds of record Cenovel keeps, and how they relate.

ConceptReviewed against the application source on 3 October 2026

Five kinds of record

Cenovel is the district’s record of its network. Everything in it is one of five kinds of record, and each is linked to the others.

One record, its context
A switch record, serial SIM-1002, sits at the center. Around it are its place (Willow Middle, IDF-2), its observations (reads over SSH), its work (an RMA case) and its evidence (E-Rate funding and the audit trail). WM-SW-02 · equipmentModel · serial SIM-1002 · tag PlaceWillow Middle · IDF-2 closet ObservationsRead over SSH · outages WorkRepairs · RMA · replacement EvidenceFunding · audit trail WM-SW-02Serial SIM-1002 · equipment PlaceSite · closet ObservationsReads · outages WorkRMA · replacement EvidenceFunding · audit
Illustration with demo names. Each part is described below.
Equipment
One record per physical device: its catalog model, serial and asset tag. A serial belongs to one record; Cenovel refuses a second record with the same serial.
Places
Sites, each with a type the district names (a type can mark its sites as priority facilities), the closets inside them, and storerooms for stock. Equipment is placed in a closet position or a storeroom.
Observations
What Cenovel saw when it read a device over SSH or SNMPv3, read a server’s management controller, or asked a controller such as Juniper Mist. An outage is a finding from those reads, dated, with its evidence.
Work
Projects, repairs and RMA cases, checkouts, replacements, disposals and maintenance windows, each attached to the equipment and place it concerns.
Evidence
Funding and E-Rate attribution, how long a record must be kept, documents, exports and an audit trail of who changed what.

How the records relate

  • A position in a closet (a switch, a stack member, a power-supply bay) is separate from the unit fitted there. When hardware is swapped, the position keeps its name, ports and address; see Replacement and disposition.
  • An observation never rewrites the record by itself. A read that cannot reach a device says the device is not answering Cenovel; it does not mark the equipment as failed.
  • Statuses carry a fixed product state, so a district can name them freely without changing what Cenovel does; see Status states.
  • A record with funding, E-Rate, disposal, replacement or RMA history is never removed for good, and shows how long it must be kept.

Watch it work

Short recordings of the demo console doing four everyday tasks. Each plays while it is on screen and loops; choose another task to switch.

The demo console with the record for WM-SW-02 open on its Connections tab, listing the access point that uplinks to it.
Find a device. Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac), type a name, tag, serial or address, and open the record. Recorded from the demo’s fictional district. Muted; it loops.
The old unit’s record, DEMO-102, showing its replacement entry: serial SIM-1002 replaced by SIM-2001, old unit sent to RMA.
Replace a unit. Type the new unit’s serial, send the old unit to the RMA board, and read the record of the swap. Recorded from the demo’s fictional district. Muted; it loops.
The Outages page with one active maintenance window for CE-SW-15, its reason and its end time.
Schedule a maintenance window. Cover CE-SW-15 for an upgrade: its outage leaves Outages while the window runs, and the window is listed with its reason. Recorded from the demo’s fictional district. Muted; it loops.
Explore answering “open outages by site” with a bar chart: Cedar Elementary 6, Juniper High 5, Willow Middle 5.
Ask a question. Type a question in words. Explore shows how it read the question, then answers it. Recorded from the demo’s fictional district. Muted; it loops.

What it looks like

These screens are from the public demo, which runs the real console against a fictional district. The console is for desktop browsers.

The Today page of the demo console
Today: what needs attention across every school, most urgent first.
The Outages page of the demo console
Outages: current findings with their evidence, and maintenance coverage.
A site overview page in the demo console
A site: what is recorded there, what answered its last read, and what still needs review.

Every screen above is live in the demo.

Open the demo

Who uses which part

  • Network teams start from sites, closets, device reads and outages to trace a problem back to the equipment.
  • Field and asset teams keep stock, tags, checkouts, repairs and disposal on the same records.
  • Technology leadership plans refreshes from projects, lifecycle standards and E-Rate funding evidence.

Where to go next

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