So I'm well past the point where I can keep it all in my head, and only with some effort and a bit of walking between rooms can work it out by direct observation and fooling with the managed switch UIs...
So I'm mostly scrawling and erasing a diagram in a notebook to keep track of what ports of what nodes are plugged into what switch ports and what their VLAN and LAG settings are, etc.
What do you use? Excel worksheets? Visio diagrams? Neither are terribly web friendly, which means you have to be sitting at a console of a system which can run those programs to fiddle with them, or have VNC running on it. Interested in your thoughts.
(In case it's not obvious, I'm talking about a homelab/home office, but it involves multiple, frequently changing subnets connected and/or suitably isolated from multiple remote sites. So fairly complex for a home office but still well short of calling for some costly and heavily resourced enterprise-scale network management system.)
So I'm mostly scrawling and erasing a diagram in a notebook to keep track of what ports of what nodes are plugged into what switch ports and what their VLAN and LAG settings are, etc.
What do you use? Excel worksheets? Visio diagrams? Neither are terribly web friendly, which means you have to be sitting at a console of a system which can run those programs to fiddle with them, or have VNC running on it. Interested in your thoughts.
(In case it's not obvious, I'm talking about a homelab/home office, but it involves multiple, frequently changing subnets connected and/or suitably isolated from multiple remote sites. So fairly complex for a home office but still well short of calling for some costly and heavily resourced enterprise-scale network management system.)
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