Sams Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Documentation Dividends

Enough with the dire warnings and horror stories! Let’s set aside all the negatives due to a lack of documentation. On the positive side, you can see tangible benefits to having an acceptable level of documentation. Perhaps the one benefit you’ll appreciate most is that a documented network is a network from which you can walk away. You can take a vacation from a documented network without worrying about whether you’re going to be called if something goes wrong. Because you’re not the only person with access to information about how your network is set up, others can deal with it while you watch the sun rise on your beach vacation without your pager or cellular phone ringing. The work day is already occupied enough without ...