Ricky Beam wrote:
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Mark Bergsma wrote:
It's quite evident that wikimedia's
current network is a mess.
It's always qualified as "a mess". Every network ends up looking like
Wiki's at some point. No matter how well planned, documented, or
managed, the wiring closet will eventually look like a huricane of
cobwebs.
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Hello Ricky,
I do not really agree on this point. The company I worked for had a team
dedicated to cable planning and installation.
* Different colors used for cables (IIRC: green for switches uplinks,
red for consoles, white for internal network, yellow for outside).
* Cables attached 8 by 8 on the border of the racks.
* Every single cable had a unique number
The room had something like 80 servers on one side, about 50 more on an
other sid, add some about 12 TNTs.
The best thing was(is) we had a photo of each racks (front and backside).
cheers,
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