ITidiots open forum > Cabling Nightmares!
I got one at the moment I look after a network for a charity i haven't been there long.
I got a room well more like a bare brick basement, no climate control, a single shelve on the wall with 4 switches stacked, 2 routers (one for VOIP subnet, one for computer based network that has a VPN tunnel to national network) sat on top, all the patch cables are really long and hang to the ground. Also no labels and no one knows how this stuff is set-up. Would you believe it the room has been known to flood from a river that runs near to the building.
I have just moved the servers, however, we really need a room to be built with prober cabinets.
I already need to buy a new server ideally i need two so i can set up a cluster.
Supernova
I have far too many cabling hell stories so heres the flip side.
We have just done a CCTV installation using IP cameras hooked up to dedicated software on a remote server. The site is a new data centre for the NHS in Manchester (UK), everything is brand new and pristine, all the patches are super neat, everything cable tied and the data room is a "clean" room with AC, humidifiers and dust extraction. In each location the cameras were cabled back to racks through the removable flooring, into rack mounted PoE injectors and patched out to the relevant switch.
It took ten minutes to punch in the camera addresses, ten mins to commission and voila job done!
What a joy I wish every job was that easy.
clint green
I don't usually get into cabling, but today I worked for a client that had evidently never heard of structured wiring....and hired someone that's colorblind to do it! To boot whoever did the job had decided to label each cable by tying a key tag in a knot at the end of each cable..... Long story short I had to re-crimp each end as they didn't have a punch block...... I probably should have had my cabling guy rip and replace; but we were under a time crunch! Installed a new HP Layer 2 managed switch and the closet was full of rat....well you know what rats do best. Looking into the switch after installation looks like we'll be re-cabling after all!
Anybody have some horror stories to share?