Patch Cables

The Cabling screen is design to allow complete documentation of cabling rooms, not just LAN cables, but telephone, point to point etc.

In the blue box is a switch a port referenced by a specific cable. The other fields are:

• Rack: consists of floor number, room number, and rack number
• Rack socket: which unit number, counted from the ground up, and which socket, counted from the left
• Office socket: the name written on the final Socket (at the user’s desk)
• Office: the location of the final socket.
• Users in that office: this information is automatically looked up from a central user directory
• Cable type: dynamic (i.e. computer LAN with NAC), static (static LAN port), telco, phone, point-to-point, adsl
• Switch port: a reference to an existing switches / ports documented in NAC
• Destination: floor number - room number, rack number (1 digit), switch port (e.g. 6/36)