I normally agree with Butch, but I can't on this one.
Maybe for a small organization, this works, but even there I think there
are significant risks with this approach.
Suppose, since it is tornado season, that you are the one that normally
sets up new routers for your organization. A tornado rips through your
territory. Unfortunately, you are at home when the tornado destroys
your house and sends you to the hospital. The good folks of WISPA show
up the next day to get the 2 destroyed towers back in operation so your
network can support the clean-up efforts. How will they know how things
are to be setup?
Second scenario is similar, but for a larger organization. The "one" in
the know is out of contact for a couple of days, whether work or
pleasure. A site goes down and someone that normally doesn't do the
setups is called on to get the site up.
In both cases I see three things are are a requirement:
1) Disaster Recovery Plan - what needs to be done to get back in
operation. Should be written so a 3rd party can do it.
2) As-built documentation - how is every piece of equipment to be
configured.
3) Backups for all (critical) equipment - so that it is easy to
implement the recovery plan.
These are the very things I am working now that we have added a
part-time person so I have more time to get it done. I see these 3
things becoming more and more critical as we grow.
On 5/2/2012 2:29 AM, Butch Evans wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 00:48 -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
You take it out of the box, configure it from memory and put into place?
All I typically need is the IP addresses, ssids and firewall, so yes.
Then again, it depends on what the device is DOING on the network. Core
routers are easy. PPPoE servers are easy. Even APs are pretty quick,
IF I know the ssid. These things can be magical and are capable of SO
many things, but MOST networks use only a small portion of that
capability on each given router.
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