Dear Blake,
Had a customer come to me this morning who wanted to create a document
for their switching infrastructure and thought I would bounce it off the
rest of the world on how you usually do this. Typically I use a
spreadsheet with outlines to define the "switch" and then outlines for
the ports and color coding for vlan's as well as a description of the
port. Curious what other people are doing, as this would be a huge
undertaking for a customer who is using an entire /19 of rfc 1918 ip
addresses and has well over 150 switches and 40 active vlans. The want
to be able to look at this document and pull up any switch and look at
the port and be able to see what vlan the port is on, as well as what
device it is connected to as well as port channel membership, trunks and
other fun things like that. Needless to say their documentation is
lacking on the physical connectivity however their cisco infrastructure
does have labels on every port that goes to a named device outside of
the DHCP pools. Thoughts?
I use wiki.
1 page switch:
switchname...........10.0.0.20
-----------------
1 uplink
2 server2
.
24 donwlink
1 page vlans:
102........MYVLAN
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ip: 10.0.1.0/24
ports: sw1: 1+, 2, 3, 24+
sw2: 1+, 4, 5
+ means tagged
kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
