Documenting the LAN: What should I put in it?

[Mike Neate]

On our campus, we begin to install LAN into various labs (I know,
we are behind!) A lot of people told me to document the LAN so I would have
a better chance of supporting them effectively. My question is: What should
go into the LAN's documentation?

So far this is what I have in mind:
- Technical specification of the server
- Cable schematic
- Workstation spec. (IRQ setup, jumpers...)
- Vendor's information
- Disaster recovery procedure & policy
- Service log of what's being done on the LAN

If any of you have an existing spec. for the LAN documentation, or
any experience with it - please give me some input. In order to conserve
the band-width, if you could E-mail me, I will post a summary if I get lots
of responses.

Thank you so much.

Mike Neate, Instructional Labs Coordinator
Fullerton College, CA.

mike_...@fullcoll.edu
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[John J. Jobst // IM-I]

Make sure you get a document signed by the Chancellor (or some other high up
muck-ty-muck) that says anyone who changes anything without documenting it
will be fired. And make sure that everyone gets a copy.

John J. Jobst US Army Corps of Engineers
jo...@smtp.lms.usace.army.mil 1222 Spruce Street
314-331-8662 fax-8677 St. Louis, MO 63103-2833

It ain't that there's too many fools in the world, it's just
that the lightnin' ain't distributed right! -Mark Twain