A Simple Tool for Tracking Switch Ports?

jeremy cobert asks: "I work for a large school district in the Computer Networking department. We have several network closets at each school and each switch is set for different equipment on different VLAN's. Sometimes a Tech at a school will call in and need a printer plugged into a switch, and we are currently using maps drawn with PhotoShop to keep track of which ports are set for different equipment. I can look at a map and tell them to use a port that is already setup for printers. I am the only person who knows how to use Photoshop in our department and it is becoming way too time consuming every time someone switches a port. Here is an example of how we currently track our ports. Is there any program that we can use to make changes and diagrams in some similar fashion?"

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Photoshop?

[Pig Hogger]

Sometimes a Tech at a school will call in and need a printer plugged into a switch, and we are currently using maps drawn with PhotoShop to keep track of which ports are set for different equipment.

Photoshop for what is obviously a vector-graphic application? This is clearly an indication of your competence (or rather, lack of). No wonder that the Klutztown computer network administator decided to press criminal charges against their students, if all school IT department employees are just as incompetent as you are, it's no surprise at all!!!