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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:26:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org> To: nanog@nanog.org In-Reply-To: <d99aaed41002042138p442614dqe23102161b563069@mail.gmail.com> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Martin Hannigan wrote: > Honestly? A spreadsheet will do it. Our fiber plant is large enough, and enough people make changes that a spreadsheet is not a scalable option. jms > On 2/4/10, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote: >> To those of you who currently operate large campus/metro fiber plants, >> what are you currently using to track the usage of that plant? By that I >> mean things such as: >> * tracking the number of free/used/unusable strands in a cable >> * tracking conduit utilization >> * tying OTDR test results/power meter readings to strands >> * trying as-built drawings to cable routes and plant assets like >> manholes, junction boxes, transition splice points, duct banks, >> utility poles, etc. >> * mapping termination bays to cables >> * tracking cross-connects and splice locations >> * grouping cable segments and cross-connects together into a path/circuit >> * utilization reports, etc. >> >> I've looked at one or two commercial packages, and might look at more as >> time permits. I haven't seen much in the open-source world, and I suspect >> that many places ended up rolling their own management apps to tie into >> existing provisioning systems, etc. It's possible that I could end up >> going that route as well. >> >> jms >> >> > > > -- > Martin Hannigan martin@theicelandguy.com > p: +16178216079 > Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants >
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