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Documenting a Network?
Philip writes "Three years ago I was appointed as a network manager to a barely functioning MS-based network. Since then I've managed to get it up and running — even thriving — but have been guilty of being too busy with the doing of it to document the changes and systems that were put in place. Now as I look back, I'm worried that I am the only one who will ever know how this network works. If I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason, I'd be leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run. Ultimately, this won't be a good reference for me if they are trying to work out technical details for years to come. It looks like I'm going to have to document the network with all sorts of details that outside consultants could understand too (no, I don't want to be the outside consultant), especially since it's likely that my replacement will have less technical expertise (read 'cheaper'). Are there any good templates out there for documenting networks? Is anyone who has done it before willing to share some experiences? What did you wish your predecessor had written down about a network that you inherited?"
The Passwords.
Use Post-its.
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Now I see this Microsoft bashing on Slashdot regularly and it's completely unfounded. I use a Windows-based PC and it has provided me with years of worry, virus and spyware free operation.
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Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
nmap -sS -O 10.0.0.0/8 > handover.txt
English only please... I don't understand this word "vacation" you have mixed in with the others.
When I was part of an IBM sales team in The Old Days we used to scare prospects by asking to see their network diagram. Almost never appeared.
Then we'd ask who owned the network. That was good for laughs.
Finally we'd ask why the most important part of the network (the end user) didn't appear on the diagram (assuming they could produce one).
By the looks of it nothing's changed.
You just thought I wouldn't catch a reference to Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.
Original Lation from which it was derived: ...neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci[ng] velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui in ea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?
At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus, qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti, quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint, obcaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa, qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.
English:
Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.
What was that about my attention span?
...fellatio uber alles...
WTF???
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Yeah, right.
An old girlfriend tells you you need viagra, and you still dont't get it.
What was that about my attention span?
Pay attention!!! There is no language called Lation.
Not if they did their jobs right :)
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy."
Actually, it's a simple test designed to separate the people who should be working with the corporate wide area network from the people who should be forcefully prevented from coming anywhere within fifteen metres of the comms cabinet, using a taser if necessary.
If you have to ask which group your answer has placed you in then I'm not going to tell you.
> Trust spreadsheet
You pull the wrong cable.
It's suddenly dark.
You get eaten by a grue.
that red stapler, ya, I'm gonna have to take that...