Standard way of documenting switch port / patch panel connections.
Hi,
I visited an office setup by someone else and in there comms room I made a note of every port used on the patch panel and switches so we can work out a lot of things.
Right now this is all stored in pen and paper, but I of course want to transfer this data to an electronic storage.
I wondered, is there a standard way of representing the way ports are patched up, that is easy to document and update. Of course a spreadsheet springs to mind and this will be the default choice, but I wondered if there is a better way.
E.g.
Patch panel Ports
1. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
2. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
3. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
4. Red cable plugs into Dlink switch port2
Etc.
Netgear switch
1.empty
Etc.
And so on. Is there some industry recognised way of representing this data.
If necessary I will just do it in excel in the style above, but this must be something commonly done and perhaps there is a standard way or an app that makes it easy to generate and keep updated.
I visited an office setup by someone else and in there comms room I made a note of every port used on the patch panel and switches so we can work out a lot of things.
Right now this is all stored in pen and paper, but I of course want to transfer this data to an electronic storage.
I wondered, is there a standard way of representing the way ports are patched up, that is easy to document and update. Of course a spreadsheet springs to mind and this will be the default choice, but I wondered if there is a better way.
E.g.
Patch panel Ports
1. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
2. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
3. Green cable plugs into Netgear swtich Port4
4. Red cable plugs into Dlink switch port2
Etc.
Netgear switch
1.empty
Etc.
And so on. Is there some industry recognised way of representing this data.
If necessary I will just do it in excel in the style above, but this must be something commonly done and perhaps there is a standard way or an app that makes it easy to generate and keep updated.
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I'll be updating on this soon.
Have you found one you like yet? Do you have any more questions?
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not yet actually. Right now I still have a pile of hand written notes. It's on my list this week for sure to translate them to something electronic. If there is no objection, I'll keep this question open until I can report back what I used.
Sure. We'll be here for you when you're ready. Keep up posted!
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Sorry for the on-going delay. It's to be done. IT's in my big xmas paperwork to do pile. Will update as want to nail a good system for various clients.
Thanks for the update!
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Something hopefully over xmas I'm going to give thought to and will update.
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Time just flies, and currently I still do not have a standard way of doing this, but it is on the high priority list. I would like to keep this open until we do this and let you know what we do.
I'm so surprised there is not a standardized way of doing this.
I'm so surprised there is not a standardized way of doing this.
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I never mastered a great way, but you can consider that I will effectilvey be using spreadsheets to do this.
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Thanks for all the input
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