NetworkIQ
A concept. The screens are drawn to show how it would work.
Nobody left any paperwork. Tracing it is 2 of us and most of a day.
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It reads the switch and names every device that answers before anyone touches a lead.
Network discovery reads each switch port and names the device on it, with its room and link speed.
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The engineer pulls a lead at a time, and the tool writes each row as it happens.
No second engineer with a tone generator. Sockets that must not be pulled are flagged before anyone reaches them.
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Every port on every panel shows what it reaches and whether it can be pulled.
Filled for answering, hollow for no link, ringed for do not pull.
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On a dead run it measures the cable to the break, so the dig starts at a number.
A cable length test on each run with nothing answering, given in metres.
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It separates what is broken now from what is one event away, and writes the paperwork.
Out come a schedule, a label file for the printer and a report.