Creating Project Documentation... Ep.11: Real-World Business Switch Network Build

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Real-World Business Switch Network Build! In today's episode, we're going to be creating relevant network documentation for our network switches' infrastructure.
This includes:

- Introducing you to the ULTIMATE documentation tool
- Adding new worksheets to the cable map
- Some basic network diagramming
- A practical exercise to test your knowledge of this episode!

In this series, we continue where we left off in my 'Real-World Cabling' series, and continue on to building and installing a business switch network.

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[alittax]

19:49 The entire series is amazing, but this way of drawing network diagrams is my favorite part! Beautiful! Thank you Jeremy!!!! This is also useful for drawing the switch topology when there's an broadcast storm!

[drewn]

I can not stress enough how great this video is!

Having service provider details to hand is so important and will save so much time when you have outages! I am currently going through an upgrade project at the moment and due to Covid-19 I am unable to fly to my locations and have had to get remote hands support - Having pictures of my racks and having proper documentation is key in situations like this!

I love the slide on the "should haves" and "could haves", dude that is key content right there!

Great video Jeremy

[Rachid.Mechakra]

I opened the video to see it because i know it's a great video and a great content. Jeremy you are amazing ! I will watch the video now.

[lukekenny]

Can’t thank you enough, you’re the man who motivated me to get into networking!!!!

[Felix-vehs]

Today I added a 2nd and 3rd Switch to my Network as well as three VLANs - and then this Video got recommend to me :)
The timing could not have been more perfect

[rogerosbu]

I’ve seen so many burned by not having the proper documentation. Great video, as always!

[jakewhite]

Great video! I've been using excel for documentation for years and I still learned something new! I never thought of plugging photos right into excel before. However, I would say that the biggest drawback to excel and similar apps is that they're static, so the info can get stale rather quickly. That's why I don't bother with patch panels or cables. We have field techs who are constantly moving things around and not documenting their changes. So I almost always end up doing show commands as soon as I log onto equipment routinely.

[izreeljames]

Love your energy Jerry!!! Thank you 🙏🏽

[jc]

Wow - this is awesome! Thanks for this!

[jw]

I would definitely add a patch panel column(s) for patch panel name and port numbers

[Jrdzpr]

Jeremy, can you share your spreadsheet? of course sanitized.

[samgbuyi]

Thanks, Jeremy

This is interesting always as ever

[mtnsolutions]

I use pages in macOS but this is great

[memem]

Do you have a video about labeling a network?

[vids]

No way for reals!, good stuff love the material and the new content you put out

[groundhog]

Great stuff and perfect timing. I use Excel already but needed some guidance on which fields to use as a bare minimum. I tend to copy most of the startup information from when a network device is booting and record that in Excel. Yeah, I know, I need help. 🤪

[oldshield]

so why did you not mention netbox in this vid?

[jmhm]

90% document/planning, 10% deploy. The difference between a good Engineer and a great engineer is documentation. How people deploy without documentation boggles my mind. Like, how did you sell your design to stakeholders? What is your plan? How do you stay on track without proper milestones? How do you deploy with no runbook? Im by far a great Engineer but been in this industry long enough to know cowboys spend a lot of money and time trying to deploy... they are a dime a dozen too - dont be a cowboy..

[mariembuenaventura]

Thank you so much sir. We now don't have any excuse haha

[kristopherleslie]

Ever wondered why the switch didn’t have it embedded natively