Cabling Management

“An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”

 Our System
• There are only 2 server rooms across the campus (with
airconditioning)
• Other networking equipments are either stored in security
cabinets or have no security enclosure at all
• Cabling Management minimal (done in ICS Data Center, where
most equipments are owned/managed by ICS not by ITC)
• Not anticipating rapid network expansion

BIOTECH CEC
 Our System

Switch Rack @ Admin ICS Data Center

 What should we anticipate?
• Expansion of physical network
• Increase number of switches and servers
means exponential increase in cables
• Increase in number of cables means longer
time for troubleshooting network problems
which would normally take a shorter time in
small networks.
Limitations in Cabling Management
• Make-do of limited resources
• No known connectivity map as of 2008 & 2009
• Monetary Cost
• Labor Extensive
 Our Future without Proper
Cable Management

Looks exaggerated? What if the problem was a caused by a loose cable.

How long would it take to find the disconnected link.
Our Future without Proper
Cable Management
1) Make a connectivity map. Put down (on paper) the
location of all devices running in the environment and
assign them a number.
2) Use these numbers to tag each device and their location
on the patch panel.
3)Disconnect all network cables going from the patch panel
to the switches and re-plug them in an orderly manner.
Preferably use colored cables, use a color scheme to
categorize devices. ( Servers could use red cables, printers
yellow ones and workstations could use traditional blue
ones.)
GOAL