{"id":340,"date":"2014-05-15T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/?p=340"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:23:16","slug":"networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/05\/15\/networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another episode of The IT Crowd. That\u2019s how I felt anyway when I was standing in the server room of System Dynamics. I was hoping for someone to make it simple and just hand me the Internet. The room itself is actually quite cool\u2026 on one side of it because that\u2019s where the cooling system is. It\u2019s an interesting setup because there is no real cold aisle but it\u2019s all just one room and two air-conditioning systems facing each other on one side, blowing the freezing air onto you as you follow the cables from patch panels to the switch and vice versa. There are 5 racks in the room that are housing several switches, 3 of which are stacked Cisco C3750s that are supposed to be the core of the network because they \u2013 again \u2013 are supposed to have taken the place of older Cisco switches which are still in the setup for some reason. I guess I could make that my project to get rid of those and maybe tidy up the whole thing. I might need more than 7 weeks by the looks of it, though. Seeing as I don\u2019t work on the weekends or do night shifts, it might be even impossible to achieve any of this at all without causing any downtime.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-340 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/05\/15\/networking\/warmaisle\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/files\/2014\/05\/WarmAisle-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/05\/15\/networking\/coldaisle\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/files\/2014\/05\/ColdAisle-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It pretty much goes without saying, that I have spent the last couple of days only documenting what is in that room because the last documentation is a few years old and there are quite a number of things that have changed or haven\u2019t been documented in the first place. I am now trying to match the ports on the patch panels to the ports in the floor so I can add a few more details to the documentary like the desk numbers and people sitting there. It might be a waste of time, though, because as I have mentioned in an earlier post, there are only about 25-30 out of some 200 people in the office at any given time and I might never even get to see some of them.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to see more of my colleagues in the following weeks though, as I have signed up for a few events like the Dublin Staff Relay as a supporter and a hiking tour in the Wicklow Mountains National Park where I hope to be able to enjoy the scenery while hiking some 7km. There is also going to be a BBQ next month that I am invited to and this is going to be on the ship that you can see in my last blog entry, the Jeanie Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as I wrote quite a lot the last time and people told me, that they haven\u2019t even started reading this blog, I\u2019m going to keep it rather short this time as to not let it stack up too high and give those stragglers a fighting chance to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick heads up on upcoming topics: George informed me that we will go to a bar on Friday where I will have a few drinks, maybe even Guinness \ud83d\ude09 and the weather is supposed to be awesome this weekend so I\u2019m thinking about going to D\u00fan Laoghaire and walk down the quay. There\u2019s also the Docklands Summer Festival around the Grand Canal Dock area so I might check that out as well.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nAngelo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another episode of The IT Crowd. 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