Been too tired to post.
At work I'm still trying to do the jobs of three technicians. Had a call from the Aximinister office (just off of Western Ave, just south of the I-10 -- the Barn is just a bit north and east of the junction of SR-91 and I-110) that my conduit was in for the LAN connection to the power room. I leave Tuesday first thing, drive thru the moring rush/crush, arrive to find that the conduit is a single run stubbed 12 feet above the floor, over the cable rack over the equipment rack. I had asked for a junction and a continuation of the conduit about another 50 feet to the equipment that controls the card readers at the doors -- it's on a 4w 9600 baud data circuit but is going to be cut over to a LAN connection some time this year. Save the company some money, will ya? ....no.... *SIGH*
Measure out the run, pull enough cat-5 cable from the box, cut and lay out on the floor. Pull more, lay on floor. Tape to the pull string. Go upstairs, pull the two cables up and terminate on the cat-5 patch panel. Patch the first cable to the hub. Back downstairs loosely wrap-tie the cat-5's down to the cable rack, terminate one on a jack and coil up a few feet of extra wire for the second/spare. Connect my laptop to the jack with a short patch cord, link up, send an e-mail to the client, move the patch cord from my laptop to the lan connection on the power monitoring thingie.
Wednesday saw me return to Axminister on a trouble that normally would have been handled by Don Bourne. A dumb terminal is dead. Arrrive, find, it's an AT&T 705 -- buzzes slightly, dark screen. Tell the client the ticket is JU'd (Job Unfinished) for parts. Order a replacement. As of Yesterday it is still JU'd.
Thursday I played musical chairs with eight or so phone lines -- following people as they change offices and desks.
In between times I'm replacing older Cisco 2924's (some minor hardware bug) with new Cisco 2924's. About 30 of them. Figured how to do normal business hours. Hang an old UB2400 24 port hub in front of the patch bay, connect to a spare port. Swing the patch cables from the hub-to-be-replaced to the hanging spare -- maximum of a second or two interruption in the one client's LAN connection, and ethernet will simply retry. After everyone is moved call the NMC (network management center, the guys who monitor all of the switches) and inform them I am working on the LAN -- at which point I pull the fiber connections. The stack of hubs are fed from each end from routers in separate buildings -- a break in the fiber does nothing but bring in an alarm at the NMC.
Depower the hub, unscrew from rack, put the new hub in, run the power for the new hub down to the new power from the UPS, connect up the fiber, test for connectivity, swing the 24 client connections back off the hanging hub. Inform the NMC that all is now normal.
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have a bunch more to do.....