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What's Up Gold will basically scan your entire network and figure out what hardware is what and report back.<br />
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It's pretty slick.
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So my boss tasked me with the daunting job of creating a map or layout of our entire setup here in the office, as far as servers, switches, which server goes to what switch, routers, etc. I've never really done anything like that before or even know where to begin really.<br />
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Can anyone offer any guidelines, or even a place to start? I'm not even sure of a way to see all the servers in the office, short of looking at them in the server room, where half of them aren't even labeled. Any starting places or advice on this one? Thanks.<br />
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Also, he wants it in somewhat of a graphical format. Any ideas on a program I can use to do this and make it look clean?
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So my boss tasked me with the daunting job of creating a map or layout of our entire setup here in the office, as far as servers, switches, which server goes to what switch, routers, etc. I've never really done anything like that before or even know where to begin really.

Can anyone offer any guidelines, or even a place to start? I'm not even sure of a way to see all the servers in the office, short of looking at them in the server room, where half of them aren't even labeled. Any starting places or advice on this one? Thanks.

Also, he wants it in somewhat of a graphical format. Any ideas on a program I can use to do this and make it look clean?

What&#39;s Up Gold will basically scan your entire network and figure out what hardware is what and report back.

It&#39;s pretty slick.

Making a server map

So my boss tasked me with the daunting job of creating a map or layout of our entire setup here in the office, as far as servers, switches, which server goes to what switch, routers, etc. I&#39;ve never really done anything like that before or even know where to begin really.

Can anyone offer any guidelines, or even a place to start? I&#39;m not even sure of a way to see all the servers in the office, short of looking at them in the server room, where half of them aren&#39;t even labeled. Any starting places or advice on this one? Thanks.

Also, he wants it in somewhat of a graphical format. Any ideas on a program I can use to do this and make it look clean?

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Server Hardware

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.