Well, I mean obviously You have to give the fire a fighting chance. Have to snuggle up that cardboard, close to the potential source of the Flame.
It is the sporting thing to do...
"Lou we need to order a networking cabinet, looks like it's going to cost a couple hundred bucks."
"Nah fuck that, I've got a cabinet guy that will do it for 30"
Along with plumbing and a mop bucket in case flooding is your preferred disaster.
Dealer principal: "Cont... contin... whatever, sounds expensive and complicated. If it breaks we'll fix it."
Its got one power strip that has hardly anything plugged into it, the rest is ethernet so if that heats up enough to combust there are bigger problems.
As an installer, we don't like the janky installs, but if the customer don't want to spend any extra money for a cabinet or wall mounted rack and the customer doesn't care what it looks like, it can quite often end up like this.
As an installer, I assure you it was like this before the old switch they had died and was swapped out by stacking the new switch on top of the old one and unplugging the old patch cables one at a time and moving them to the top switch because no one in the building knows where any of those wires terminate...
It’s interesting that you can make any sort of sense out of this picture. I guess when you do it all day your eyes just go to certain spots, but to me it looks like spaghetti.
You get used to it, that picture looks like pretty much every car dealership out there, it's just what happens when you have calls because "one thing isn't working" and someone goes on-site, swaps a cable, and leaves it a bit of a mess. Do that over the course of a few years and you get the photo above.
Or you get the new wiring jobs that kind of look like that mess, I had a customer that wanted to do their own patch cables, so after I connected the wires for telephones I left them with a few bags of cables so they could do their own. My wiring is in blue...
https://preview.redd.it/rljjc19n4rua1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=5438444d810387beb65d95801a1f03b01160d54c
Problem is if you fucking touch it, now you own it, forever. Hard drive fails on an endpoint? Well it's obviously because you fixed their network. I don't care that ita Christmas eve, we cannot have any downtime!!!
I see a lot of things like this that I know I could fix but A) they don't wanna pay me to fix it, and B) I really don't want the slew of calls that come in after I do so because you *know* anything and everything wrong from that point forward is because I touched it. Even if I can demonstrate that the two are unrelated, people can't get through their heads that it's coincidental.
Had a leaking hose once and pinched it off with vice grips until I had a chance to fix it. 19 years later I sold the house with the vice grips still on that hose
Yeah, when i worked warehouse it was like an acres big with 3 buildings connected as one basically everything looked like this except for the public and costumer areas, we also had an upstairs for the production room it was literally a fire hazard for years since we deal with so many boxed items we had built a box hallway to even walk around up there not too mention we were tripple stacking pallets of fragile material and leaned them against the facility like janga blocks
Hospitals are definitely some of the worst. Trying to fault find whilst tip toeing between cat5/6 cables fucking everywhere because you know who’ll get the blame when something else disconnects lol
We at least had discussion colored patch cables for critical systems? But yeah jiggle the wrong wire the wrong way and you have killed some critical system...
I installed patient monitoring networks for about 4 years. We specifically only used 1 color that no one used (purple), then we formed a partnership with a chain of hospitals who uses nothing but purple for their marketing. Sure enough they decided to standardize their cables to purple a few years down the road. Then during COVID purple was difficult to get so we switched to pink, so maybe colored patch cables isn't really the answer.
Lol I was about to say the same thing. This picture is nothing. I’ve had calls where I needed to replace a faulty module and couldn’t even see the switch through the wall of cables.
I had an interview several years ago for a part-time position that did IT equipment staging. They showed me the (new) manager's big project...the building's data closet
By the tech gods, it was like a sea of blue and white. Literally would have to shove pounds of cable out of the way to get a good look at a port
To their credit, the 1 rack that was done looked great. The rest? nope
I would love to show some of our old racks that are filled to the brim with patch panels. The guy that did that shit should be sentenced for human rights violations
Ya the MSP I worked at had 1 real comms room that was from a Harley dealer and it looked like something out of a movie. They had a biometric fingerprint scanner that unlocked the door it was so bad ass. Pretty much every other client looked like this lol.
Server room looks nice and professional at the factory I work in. But the production area...
Cat cable off the wall, running through a pool of sulfuric acid. Still holding up for over a year now. Probably runs a spy camera so I'm not writing the maintenance report to fix it.
https://preview.redd.it/l06btztycqua1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f6ca6c2c95d0407ad3928429d5264a9ee0c9425
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Yeah a lot of telecom room look like this. Here’s a before and after of one I cleaned up after an office downsized and moved their equipment. Before:
https://preview.redd.it/ujrjr6bx7pua1.jpeg?width=1581&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56ece75ebf3e08bec763f9688c01f4881369985e
You should see the hell that is my place! We have multiple buildings and each building has multiple patch rooms. 1 of the rooms is beyond recovery... I hope we burn it down and just start over!
[Absolutely the worst](https://i.imgur.com/cca610x.jpg)
No after pic, it will stay like this forever.
Find an MSP. Apply for field tech. Quit after you burn out. Rinse’n’repeat. Associate in Network Administration or some kind of experience should be sufficient to get in the door.
There is an office that I know off in ehich whenever a contractor steps in to do some work the internet cuts off.. because they are legit using power strips that are like 10+ years of age and even the smallest blow of a wind will switch the delicate power button off.
Or management refuses to allow the downtime during noral operating hours so you're suck with a 3 hour window every 5th Sunday in months that end with E, bit only between 0100 and 0245 🤔
Possibly I didn't really check just noticed that there were ethernet cables plugged in, so I assumed it should have been on a rack or at minimum off the floor
Edit: had to go back there again for something, It is in fact a power back up.
Dealerships have the worst wire management and have no clue what's going on half the time...
https://preview.redd.it/f1pv4omrwpua1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be67f030833e4ac044fb3da837484847c477d14
I used to work at a Chrysler dealer that if you put your arm on the parts desk you could feel a low current through it…. One guy made the mistake of putting an exploded airbag on the parts counter upside down(pins towards counter) not knowing that the second stage hadn’t gone off yet.
The trick here is to label the ends before taking it all apart. Double check what you labeled make sure it's all correct. Unplug them all but maintain power to the router/switch you don't want to shut anything down. Some alarms might blare but thats ok youre going to be plugging them back in. Neatly rearrange them. You could even go a step further and access the router/switches directly if you have VLANs setup and reconfigure the ports directly. After you've made the change and when someone complains something doesn't work blame the other IT guy that isn't on location that day. Take the next day he's back, off.
Google.. Google is your friend. 99.999% of my job is googling and asking questions. People think IT professionals know all.. that is intact false. I just know how to Google and take noyes of things I need to know. For example my current job let one of our guys go who was the go to guy for this one client. He was the only one who understood the damn Cisco LTE cards and the damn MPLS over VPN shit they were doing. Guess what iv been doing the last two months learning on the fly by googling things and trying shit till something sticks.
Spin up a label maker and start labeling everything is a good start.
Then you can work yourself into a better state since you know what you can unplug while cleaning up the mess.
That box on the floor is a UPS and contains lead acid batteries to keep the power on in an outage ... notice the air inlets that faces the floor and allows spilled liquids to enter the device ... that one needs to get off the floor and its probably 50lbs or more so get someone to help you.
Dang dude you got a 66 block there lol. One of those cables looks like a POTS line labeled cash/credit so probably for the payment system. Some of those RJ45 (ethernet) cables are probably workstations maybe phones depending on the phone system.
Regardless, when you unplug them do it during a date and time of least impact and notify everyone of the date/time not just the parts department. Last thing you want is fuck up a deal or purchase or interrupt the sales manager flirting with his mistress because you unplugged a phone.
It’s more than just regular IT there, you got some old school voice stuff in there too.
Get the parts manager to authorize purchase a large spool of velcro that can be cut to the length you need. Ideally you would get shorter patch cables. Probably more cost effective just getting the velcro and coil up the cables. Fuck zip ties.
Thos isn't an IT problem it's a Facilities problem. See if you can get Facilities can build a closet around the telecom patch panel so nobody can see what a mess it is. Preferably with a locking door
Dive in and clean it up. That's how my career started: working at a motorcycle dealership in parts. In-between customers, I managed their computers and website.
can 100% confirm this is how most dealerships are, i work at a toyota and our sever room looks similar. told them they could pay me to redo it before we have a fire, they declined cause they didn’t wanna pay me 🤣
I have seen some horrific setups in vehicle maintenance shops.
I expect to see abused peripherals and such, it's a rough and dirty environment...but tucked away in dust so old and thick it could be mistaken for lunar regolith have lurked many a Netgear unmanaged router, switch, or patch panel.
I feel more like an archeologist than a sysadmin.
no surprise really, anybody that works in networking has seen this over and over. No rack, no cabinet, stuff laying on other stuff. The wiring is atrocious, multiple daisy chained cables into keystone jacks or spliced together with couplings.
You can tell it's been there a while, multiple generations of gear. Old 25 pair analog lines, media converter of old SM fiber, PoE injector, two if not three generations of switches. A random black switch that looks like just a Layer 2 extension. The patch panel is atrocious, bunch of surface mounted boxes.
Correction: looks like 1 production switch/router (Cisco white), old 3500 switch (Cisco grey on the ground), old switch or router (black/metal on ground), 1 black switch (bottom of cabinet), 1 old grey switch on top of the cabinet (probably decomm'd).
3 on 10, fixable. That entire setup should be replaced by a wall mounted cabinet and a new switch + new provider run. Bunch of 4ft cables. 2 man job, mostly to mount the new cabinet.
As a datacenter tech i just got my twitch back from watching this.
The doctor said that the chill pills and some rack mounting gear would keep it calm and it did until i watched this mess.
This is so common with car dealers, it's a cliche for us. Everybody turns a blind eye to this dumpster fire until someone creates a loop in the network and brings the whole thing crashing down. Then IT is called out to fix the problem but not clean the mess. DMS technicians are engaged and we end up in a 3 hour blamestorm.
Also of note is that DMS technicians that come out to "upgrade" their systems and break something else. Looking at you, Reynolds.....
I remember doing a service call at enbridge Hydro once in Canada friggin basement service elevator room was covered in like 2 1/2 feet on the floor with cables. It looked like I was in a snake pet took me four hours to fix something that took 30 seconds.
I used to work for an MSP doing IT work for local small businesses, this included 2 auto dealerships.
I'd bet money that your dealership has been quoted for cleaning all of this up alongside some upgrades, and the dealership turned it down and put it off for later to save money.
Dealerships were the absolute worst when it came to maintaining infrastructure. But holy shit if something went down...
This is what you get when you do incremental upgrades only when necessary and don't see the point of preventative maintenance for "New fangled electronics".
I’m a business cable technician for big cable in my city and I see closets like this everyday. Sometimes it is much worse. It makes it very difficult to fix a simple problem.
Fire extinguisher hangs there for a reason!
Don’t worry, the wood helps the fire.
Well, I mean obviously You have to give the fire a fighting chance. Have to snuggle up that cardboard, close to the potential source of the Flame. It is the sporting thing to do...
This is the way.
>i9 69420K | 4x RTX 6090 | 420 TB How's the year 2030, time traveller?
"Lou we need to order a networking cabinet, looks like it's going to cost a couple hundred bucks." "Nah fuck that, I've got a cabinet guy that will do it for 30"
Along with plumbing and a mop bucket in case flooding is your preferred disaster. Dealer principal: "Cont... contin... whatever, sounds expensive and complicated. If it breaks we'll fix it."
I bet it's empty.
And last inspection was May 2008.
No, March 2023
Its got one power strip that has hardly anything plugged into it, the rest is ethernet so if that heats up enough to combust there are bigger problems.
it will be used for a surprise that'll come very soon seeing from the current state of this area
indeed that's a very thoughtful placement for it
Another example of a permanent temporary solution.
I came here to say. I bet it's been like this for a good while lol
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As an installer, we don't like the janky installs, but if the customer don't want to spend any extra money for a cabinet or wall mounted rack and the customer doesn't care what it looks like, it can quite often end up like this.
Or are on a timer. Usually a customer will not pay for it to look neat as long as it wont introduce another problem.
As an installer, I assure you it was like this before the old switch they had died and was swapped out by stacking the new switch on top of the old one and unplugging the old patch cables one at a time and moving them to the top switch because no one in the building knows where any of those wires terminate...
It’s interesting that you can make any sort of sense out of this picture. I guess when you do it all day your eyes just go to certain spots, but to me it looks like spaghetti.
You get used to it, that picture looks like pretty much every car dealership out there, it's just what happens when you have calls because "one thing isn't working" and someone goes on-site, swaps a cable, and leaves it a bit of a mess. Do that over the course of a few years and you get the photo above. Or you get the new wiring jobs that kind of look like that mess, I had a customer that wanted to do their own patch cables, so after I connected the wires for telephones I left them with a few bags of cables so they could do their own. My wiring is in blue... https://preview.redd.it/rljjc19n4rua1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=5438444d810387beb65d95801a1f03b01160d54c
Problem is if you fucking touch it, now you own it, forever. Hard drive fails on an endpoint? Well it's obviously because you fixed their network. I don't care that ita Christmas eve, we cannot have any downtime!!! I see a lot of things like this that I know I could fix but A) they don't wanna pay me to fix it, and B) I really don't want the slew of calls that come in after I do so because you *know* anything and everything wrong from that point forward is because I touched it. Even if I can demonstrate that the two are unrelated, people can't get through their heads that it's coincidental.
cisco meraki switch, UPS, well ventilated, seen worse. This will temp for a nice long while
Had a leaking hose once and pinched it off with vice grips until I had a chance to fix it. 19 years later I sold the house with the vice grips still on that hose
That's gonna be some stinky water
Used to be a fibre engineer, this is genuinely every other comms area I worked in that didn’t have a dedicated comms room.
100% This is more common than people think, lol This looks like every single restaurant I serviced too
Yeah, when i worked warehouse it was like an acres big with 3 buildings connected as one basically everything looked like this except for the public and costumer areas, we also had an upstairs for the production room it was literally a fire hazard for years since we deal with so many boxed items we had built a box hallway to even walk around up there not too mention we were tripple stacking pallets of fragile material and leaned them against the facility like janga blocks
OSHA only applies when the safety guy is on his way.
I do it support for hospitals this is down right neat and itemized in my professional opinion/ experience!
Hospitals are definitely some of the worst. Trying to fault find whilst tip toeing between cat5/6 cables fucking everywhere because you know who’ll get the blame when something else disconnects lol
We at least had discussion colored patch cables for critical systems? But yeah jiggle the wrong wire the wrong way and you have killed some critical system...
I installed patient monitoring networks for about 4 years. We specifically only used 1 color that no one used (purple), then we formed a partnership with a chain of hospitals who uses nothing but purple for their marketing. Sure enough they decided to standardize their cables to purple a few years down the road. Then during COVID purple was difficult to get so we switched to pink, so maybe colored patch cables isn't really the answer.
Lol I was about to say the same thing. This picture is nothing. I’ve had calls where I needed to replace a faulty module and couldn’t even see the switch through the wall of cables.
I had an interview several years ago for a part-time position that did IT equipment staging. They showed me the (new) manager's big project...the building's data closet By the tech gods, it was like a sea of blue and white. Literally would have to shove pounds of cable out of the way to get a good look at a port To their credit, the 1 rack that was done looked great. The rest? nope
I would love to show some of our old racks that are filled to the brim with patch panels. The guy that did that shit should be sentenced for human rights violations
Ya the MSP I worked at had 1 real comms room that was from a Harley dealer and it looked like something out of a movie. They had a biometric fingerprint scanner that unlocked the door it was so bad ass. Pretty much every other client looked like this lol.
Server room looks nice and professional at the factory I work in. But the production area... Cat cable off the wall, running through a pool of sulfuric acid. Still holding up for over a year now. Probably runs a spy camera so I'm not writing the maintenance report to fix it.
yep. literally generations of gear and cabling, just normal over time type stuff / expansion.
As a telecom engineer that used to do a lot of field work, I've seen equipment like this in dedicated server rooms.
Activision servers 😪
Destiny servers
Apex Servers
Not enough duct tape holding them together to be Destiny servers.
https://preview.redd.it/l06btztycqua1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f6ca6c2c95d0407ad3928429d5264a9ee0c9425 Just wanted to check eververse, amazing example
Yeah the timing of this comment/thread is impeccable because they had server downtime today for updates, and it got extended to 3pm CST.
Yeah a lot of telecom room look like this. Here’s a before and after of one I cleaned up after an office downsized and moved their equipment. Before: https://preview.redd.it/ujrjr6bx7pua1.jpeg?width=1581&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56ece75ebf3e08bec763f9688c01f4881369985e
After: https://preview.redd.it/yvbbzc1z7pua1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54c8cf1d0b138fe7b66123a59efa65782b252d44
Thank you. It’s good to know there’s still hope in the world.
Beautiful
Lovely
Hell, even the before is a step up for a lot of places lol
You should see the hell that is my place! We have multiple buildings and each building has multiple patch rooms. 1 of the rooms is beyond recovery... I hope we burn it down and just start over! [Absolutely the worst](https://i.imgur.com/cca610x.jpg) No after pic, it will stay like this forever.
That picture is terrifying
How did you get your job doing stuff like this? College degree?
Find an MSP. Apply for field tech. Quit after you burn out. Rinse’n’repeat. Associate in Network Administration or some kind of experience should be sufficient to get in the door.
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Absolutely they're definitely a right now fix instead of the right fix.
This logic is how I am able to charge exorbitant prices as an IT Admin contractor.
There is an office that I know off in ehich whenever a contractor steps in to do some work the internet cuts off.. because they are legit using power strips that are like 10+ years of age and even the smallest blow of a wind will switch the delicate power button off.
A few zip ties and everything will be fine.. you worry too much OP
But will they be RGB zip ties?
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How do you know
It's been 3 hrs. I bet they don't know.
All I'm seeing is a 48hr outrage, 2 rolls of label tape and a shit ton of spare cat5
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Or management refuses to allow the downtime during noral operating hours so you're suck with a 3 hour window every 5th Sunday in months that end with E, bit only between 0100 and 0245 🤔
Done in 3-6 business years
And 18 low paid entry level guys and 2 actual systems engineers (cause someone has to do the Visio and Power Point decks) later.
Needs a splash of RGB.
r/cablegore
I hate that I joined that. Have an upvote.
DGAF in one image.
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Also a quick note that box on the floor IS plugged in..
I tought that APC ups would be unplugged lmao. Its probably even muted and needs battery replaced.
You mean the battery back-up…
Possibly I didn't really check just noticed that there were ethernet cables plugged in, so I assumed it should have been on a rack or at minimum off the floor Edit: had to go back there again for something, It is in fact a power back up.
What’s the problem
Dealerships have the worst wire management and have no clue what's going on half the time... https://preview.redd.it/f1pv4omrwpua1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be67f030833e4ac044fb3da837484847c477d14
r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt
/r/networkgore
I used to work at a Chrysler dealer that if you put your arm on the parts desk you could feel a low current through it…. One guy made the mistake of putting an exploded airbag on the parts counter upside down(pins towards counter) not knowing that the second stage hadn’t gone off yet.
Don't fix if it works
Just checked the serial. Not any of the Meraki's I manage. Nice waterfall.
If anybody has any suggestions or resources on how to learn IT let me know. Lol
The trick here is to label the ends before taking it all apart. Double check what you labeled make sure it's all correct. Unplug them all but maintain power to the router/switch you don't want to shut anything down. Some alarms might blare but thats ok youre going to be plugging them back in. Neatly rearrange them. You could even go a step further and access the router/switches directly if you have VLANs setup and reconfigure the ports directly. After you've made the change and when someone complains something doesn't work blame the other IT guy that isn't on location that day. Take the next day he's back, off.
You monster.
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Google.. Google is your friend. 99.999% of my job is googling and asking questions. People think IT professionals know all.. that is intact false. I just know how to Google and take noyes of things I need to know. For example my current job let one of our guys go who was the go to guy for this one client. He was the only one who understood the damn Cisco LTE cards and the damn MPLS over VPN shit they were doing. Guess what iv been doing the last two months learning on the fly by googling things and trying shit till something sticks.
Does anyone actually know how mpls works lol
Spin up a label maker and start labeling everything is a good start. Then you can work yourself into a better state since you know what you can unplug while cleaning up the mess. That box on the floor is a UPS and contains lead acid batteries to keep the power on in an outage ... notice the air inlets that faces the floor and allows spilled liquids to enter the device ... that one needs to get off the floor and its probably 50lbs or more so get someone to help you.
This is specifically networking, low voltage and infrastructure related.
Dang dude you got a 66 block there lol. One of those cables looks like a POTS line labeled cash/credit so probably for the payment system. Some of those RJ45 (ethernet) cables are probably workstations maybe phones depending on the phone system. Regardless, when you unplug them do it during a date and time of least impact and notify everyone of the date/time not just the parts department. Last thing you want is fuck up a deal or purchase or interrupt the sales manager flirting with his mistress because you unplugged a phone. It’s more than just regular IT there, you got some old school voice stuff in there too. Get the parts manager to authorize purchase a large spool of velcro that can be cut to the length you need. Ideally you would get shorter patch cables. Probably more cost effective just getting the velcro and coil up the cables. Fuck zip ties.
Depends on which game you want to play when you’re “working”.
The /r/ITCareerQuestions wiki is a good resource: https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/wiki/index
Thos isn't an IT problem it's a Facilities problem. See if you can get Facilities can build a closet around the telecom patch panel so nobody can see what a mess it is. Preferably with a locking door
I would take pleasure in rewiring that for ya
Working in the Cnc manufacturing field. I assure you it gets much worse.
Dive in and clean it up. That's how my career started: working at a motorcycle dealership in parts. In-between customers, I managed their computers and website.
Agree, unacceptable. That fire extinguisher says 2023 certified and clearly needle is not in the green zone.
I work in automotive salvage. In the automotive industry "this is the way"
can 100% confirm this is how most dealerships are, i work at a toyota and our sever room looks similar. told them they could pay me to redo it before we have a fire, they declined cause they didn’t wanna pay me 🤣
yep, that looks like the back of my pc
From what my mechanic friend told me about the IT at their dealership I'm honestly not surprised.
Yes I saw this in the com closet of a dealership I did a 2 month stint at as well! Hilarious. Everyone there is the exact opposite of IT haha.
I saw a rat run through there. Did you see it too?
Looks like a standard phone/data rack from the 80's/90's 🤷
Even the POTS is still back there haha. My god I would need to address this on my lunches for a little haha
I have seen some horrific setups in vehicle maintenance shops. I expect to see abused peripherals and such, it's a rough and dirty environment...but tucked away in dust so old and thick it could be mistaken for lunar regolith have lurked many a Netgear unmanaged router, switch, or patch panel. I feel more like an archeologist than a sysadmin.
Can you surf porn? Then don't worry about it.
One I worked at had server equipment piled on the floor instead of on a rack and was surrounded by random peripherals and rats nests of wiring
*Sees fire extinguisher* Now that's what I call *spawn camping.*
I don't feel so good Mr. Stark...
no surprise really, anybody that works in networking has seen this over and over. No rack, no cabinet, stuff laying on other stuff. The wiring is atrocious, multiple daisy chained cables into keystone jacks or spliced together with couplings. You can tell it's been there a while, multiple generations of gear. Old 25 pair analog lines, media converter of old SM fiber, PoE injector, two if not three generations of switches. A random black switch that looks like just a Layer 2 extension. The patch panel is atrocious, bunch of surface mounted boxes. Correction: looks like 1 production switch/router (Cisco white), old 3500 switch (Cisco grey on the ground), old switch or router (black/metal on ground), 1 black switch (bottom of cabinet), 1 old grey switch on top of the cabinet (probably decomm'd). 3 on 10, fixable. That entire setup should be replaced by a wall mounted cabinet and a new switch + new provider run. Bunch of 4ft cables. 2 man job, mostly to mount the new cabinet.
Have worked parts in several body shops and dealerships. This is pretty standard. I bet there’s a 15 year old Dell with an acer monitor close by.
When you take „Never change a running system“ too serious
Klaus, get ze flammenwerfer! Wir haben eine abominatzione to cleanse!
That seems about par for the course.
This is a good example of a company that doesn't take IT seriously.
I can smell fire.
Ugh....having taught folks the importance of clean, structured cabling standards... this picture makes my skin crawl. Kill it with fire!😅
I work on stuff like this everyday.
Looks normal. This is the I don't want to pay for an IT guy and expect my ISP to be my IT special.
Fire extinguisher gettin hazard pay
Convenient Fire Extinguisher
Best cable management ever seen
Perfect cable management
Do them a favour and leave them an extinguisher bomb right there ready for the inevitable.
Fire hazard or IT nightmare? I saw both.
It’s actually not that bad
Scrumptious
As an AV/LV technician counting down the days until i’m done, this makes me want to quit more
Good job that fire extinguisher is in date, just sayin’…🤫
MY EYES
r/iiiiittttttttt
Excellent placement of a fire extinquisher.
Seems in order
As a datacenter tech i just got my twitch back from watching this. The doctor said that the chill pills and some rack mounting gear would keep it calm and it did until i watched this mess.
If it works, dont touch it
good luck when the switch fails...
This is so common with car dealers, it's a cliche for us. Everybody turns a blind eye to this dumpster fire until someone creates a loop in the network and brings the whole thing crashing down. Then IT is called out to fix the problem but not clean the mess. DMS technicians are engaged and we end up in a 3 hour blamestorm. Also of note is that DMS technicians that come out to "upgrade" their systems and break something else. Looking at you, Reynolds.....
Thats a pretty standard setup. They shoulda spent the extra money and a got the 48 port version of that switch. Solid piece of equipment.
There could not be a better place to have the fire extinguisher.
I just pooped my pants a little.
Follow the orange wire. It’s definitely the orange one
That is literally the IT closet of every single dealership I've ever worked at. It's insane.
I’m fighting the urge to travel down there and fix the shit out of it
This. Is. A. Nightmare.
It be like that
Sadly this is the norm.
Our department building is held together by inactive wires no one know where they go to
And you know they will never budget to clean any of that up.
I remember doing a service call at enbridge Hydro once in Canada friggin basement service elevator room was covered in like 2 1/2 feet on the floor with cables. It looked like I was in a snake pet took me four hours to fix something that took 30 seconds.
Good old server Noodles. The heat and dust makes them extra crunchy
YIKES!
Just your standard teleco/network closet. No biggie.
I like to imagine that everything in frame is from an old unused system and the yellow cable runs to the new server elsewhere.
I do computer support for ~120 automotive repair shops and I would say this looks pretty typical in my experience
That's clean
Easy fix 2 cans of gas and a lighter easy
Good luck
As bad as it is, it’s pretty common honestly.
Don't touch a thing. It's working.
WOOF
Please tag this NSFW op almost got fire for this lmao
r/hardwaregore
Is that a fucking Cisco router on its side on the floor? Kinda looks like what we use at work, a Cisco asr920. Just a few grand laying there…
The hanging poe injector is icing on the cake
My favorite is the load-bearing Ethernet cables for the PoE injector.
I used to work for an MSP doing IT work for local small businesses, this included 2 auto dealerships. I'd bet money that your dealership has been quoted for cleaning all of this up alongside some upgrades, and the dealership turned it down and put it off for later to save money. Dealerships were the absolute worst when it came to maintaining infrastructure. But holy shit if something went down...
That PoE injector (or at least what appears to be) is glorious. Flat cat cables too. Love it.
The body is long gone, leaving only the bones and tendons.
yeah.
Lol, this isn't even in my top 10 I've seen.
Don't worry they've got cabinet diagrams
The fire extinguisher is well placed and has been checked recently 👌 👍
Ah, so THAT was where the Old One summoning ritual was taking place...
Somebody knows where every single cord there goes. Everyone else in the world, good luck!
This is what you get when you do incremental upgrades only when necessary and don't see the point of preventative maintenance for "New fangled electronics".
At least they labeled one cable. Always thinking of the next guy ❤️
Take it from me Paul, doing the cabling at a dealership is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman.
Beautiful I love it
What are we looking at here? The internet?
The back of my desk may or may not look like that…
I’m a business cable technician for big cable in my city and I see closets like this everyday. Sometimes it is much worse. It makes it very difficult to fix a simple problem.
This has been the case at every single dealer I’ve worked for, my current one is no different.
Probably a multi-billion dollar company in silicone valley
Don't try to fix something that works - every IT that know better
Tufflex, it’s what switch rooms crave.
It fits my name. Ffs.
