New job, but FML! What a challenge!

pyropetepete · 17 Oct 2012 at 07:14

mejinks said:
None at all until I came on the scene. All mishmash from previous bods with no documentation. On the plus side, I am loving it! Boss is great and the eye candy means I am getting fitter doing my "rounds" rather than being a vampire IT person.

They not you. Im inirested to know what sort of company allowes that to be allowed or deam ok. The one my end was seen by the md, he went spear and had the lot ripped out and done. It's not in my remit so was lucky but it's a skill too posses on doing it right, neat and working

Dist · 17 Oct 2012 at 09:19

PistolPete said:
Cable ties? You'd be kicked out of my old data centre faster than you could blink if you want near a cabinet with cable ties, except to secure LV cables into management arms.

What is the harm in cable ties if you use them properly (ie, don't over tighten them)? And if they are not to be used is there a suitable alternative that is more acceptable?

platypus · 17 Oct 2012 at 09:49

mejinks said:
None at all until I came on the scene. All mishmash from previous bods with no documentation. On the plus side, I am loving it! Boss is great and the eye candy means I am getting fitter doing my "rounds" rather than being a vampire IT person.

Where is this magical world you work?!

peterwalkley · 17 Oct 2012 at 16:01

mejinks said:
These people go to weddings with elastic on the confetti.

This line made my day

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Oct 2012 at 17:25

mejinks said:
Tis in hand. I love spiceworks

aaaaahhhhh we just moved over to this! The update was applied last night to the latest version. For free what more could someone want. I sit browsing the answers and questions in my spare time! ha.

bledd · 17 Oct 2012 at 17:55

Set fire to it and start over, keep the Draytek

aln · 17 Oct 2012 at 18:16

Dist said:
What is the harm in cable ties if you use them properly (ie, don't over tighten them)? And if they are not to be used is there a suitable alternative that is more acceptable?

You use a cable wrap of some sort. These are the ones I'm used to but you get others.

http://img.imgur.com/jrKfv.jpg

mejinks · 17 Oct 2012 at 21:41

aln said:
You use a cable wrap of some sort. These are the ones I'm used to but you get others.

http://img.imgur.com/jrKfv.jpg

Believe it or not, there are cable management loops in there. In the past, I've stayed away from cable ties and velcro loops, but its nice to know poundland do them in packs of 10. I'm thinking of stripping the lot and using a colour scheme such as red for data, green for comms, yellow for switch interconnects and blue for servers.

In other news, BE said our line profile should be 2mb, so have put us on annex A instead of M. Digging deeper, I noticed two unused external telephone points and BE do adsl bonding. Now that would be a bit better if we could get 6mb/s, even if it would cost £120 a month....

pdw8 · 18 Oct 2012 at 14:48

mejinks said:
I'm thinking of stripping the lot and using a colour scheme such as red for data, green for comms, yellow for switch interconnects and blue for servers...

Yes to this!!

Begbie · 18 Oct 2012 at 14:51

Doesn't look too bad to be fair. Seen a LOT worse, and sorted some of it out. Boring as hell though.

BrianB · 18 Oct 2012 at 15:00

This puts me off going to study networks haha. That download speed would drive me nuts.

thenewoc · 18 Oct 2012 at 15:10

I take it they never close the door

Begbie · 18 Oct 2012 at 15:57

thenewoc said:
I take it they never close the door

Only really there for security, I would imagine.

Duke · 18 Oct 2012 at 17:07

Keep us updated with how it goes

mrbios · 18 Oct 2012 at 17:08

What's actually in there in total? I can see what looks like a HP2650 and 1400/1800? but everything else is hidden!

mejinks · 18 Oct 2012 at 22:16

thenewoc said:
I take it they never close the door

Can't. The telecoms company who threw the pbx in just wired it straight across to the switch. I asked if I could disconnect it to be told it would cost hundreds as we haven't been on the administrators training course. :mad:

Fine, I'm looking into another company to support the pbx.

Begbie said:
Only really there for security, I would imagine.

The comms room door is swipe access and can be locked independently, so not really a worry as only myself and the boss have access.

Duke said:
Keep us updated with how it goes

Will do

mejinks · 18 Oct 2012 at 22:17

mrbios said:
What's actually in there in total? I can see what looks like a HP2650 and 1400/1800? but everything else is hidden!

Spot on! There is also a cisco 871 in the top and a zyxel something.

SoundsGood · 18 Oct 2012 at 22:33

Use velcro cable ties

thenewoc · 18 Oct 2012 at 22:59

Begbie said:
Only really there for security, I would imagine.

Not sure if that was intentional humour...

#Chri5# · 18 Oct 2012 at 23:00

mejinks said:
Spot on! There is also a cisco 871 in the top and a zyxel something.

Looks like a Zyxel P660 series and the CD player is a special Titan one for music on hold. It's meant cope better with playing 24/7, though it's all gone flash memory now.