I've been doing a fair amount of wireless surveys lately, and part of the survey process includes generating the report that I present to the customer. These reports come with a series of heatmaps that aren't always self explanatory. This often leads to a discussion with the customer where i provide additional interpretation of the … Continue reading Understanding Wireless Heatmaps: How to interpret wireless survey reports
Network documentation is arguably both the most important and most over looked tasked a network administrator does. A good network diagram is invaluable for understanding how a network is working, for troubleshooting when its not working, and a great source of information when onboarding new employees to the network team or, more important to me, … Continue reading Documenting your Network
We have all been there; sitting down to dinner on a Sunday night, when you get an alert that one of your branches has gone offline. You politely excuse yourself from the table, open your laptop and start troubleshooting. The problem, well you can’t access any of the gear to troubleshoot the issue, and the … Continue reading Designing True Out-of-Band Access
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