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Patreon Bonus: My Everyday Carry Tools (Patreon)

Published:
2022-04-26 00:00:03
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2024-01

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I don't have a new public video for this week, but here's one from the cutting room floor just for Patreon supporters. May day job in IT involves both software and hardware. So when I need to use tools, which ones do I carry with me?

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My Everyday Carry Tools (Patreon Bonus)

May day job in IT involves both software and hardware. So when I need to use tools, which ones do I carry with me? ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp

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Alan Grassia

Interesting video, Colin. Thanks for sharing. I always think it's interesting to see what tools other IT pros use. I don't do much networking work anymore, so it's been a long while since I've had to use punch down tools and build my own Ethernet cables. More often than not, I'm doing work on Dell servers, so my tools end up being a set of screw drivers, cables, software on my laptop, and several USB flash drives with boot and recovery images on them.

Anonymous
>>82939455

At home (in my server racks) I also do own cable crimping for cables to be of exact length. But I always swear when I need to move server or replace it with another brand or model so cable most of the times becomes too short. Also cabling all servers in a rack (IPMI + at least two cables for each server for high availability) becomes a mess when using Cat6. At work I love to visit datacenters and do some hardware specific work and we're using fiber cables (pair for each server for HA) and only Cat6 for IPMI so managing all cables with velcro tapes allows smooth and easy access to all servers for technitians. Instead of USB flash drives we're using network boot (currently using open source project the Foreman) with customized discovery image we're able to do most of the things automaticaly with several different server wendors and generations for example IPMI configuration or firmware management or even some kind of data recovery.

Anonymous

Great video. I'm curious why in age of fiberoptics You don't carry bunch of SFPs and patch cables with You?

thisdoesnotcompute
>>83215525

All of the switches I manage have redundant fiber links, so if one fails, I can remotely troubleshoot it first to confirm. In practice, fiber patches and SFPs are actually very reliable. I do have shelf spares but the number of times I've needed them haven't warranted keeping a few in my bag.