I discovered a very professional piece of shareware, NetworkView, which is billed as a “compact network discovery and management tool for Windows.” Using NetworkView, I was able to quickly and easily gather all the information I needed about my client’s network. You could go from system to system and manually gather the information, but that can be very time consuming and, if done during normal business hours, would be very disruptive to the day-to-day business operations. On a physical level, the project required setting up the new workstations and adding them to the network and disassembling and reassembling the existing workstations-not to mention the time spent on a ladder fishing network cable through the confined spaces in the drop ceiling.īefore you can start a project that involves altering an existing network about which you know little, you need to spend some time getting the lay of the land for the network-network configuration, system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, NIC info, server info, hub/switch capacity, printer info, and a million other details. And, of course, my new client wanted all of this to occur with as little disruption of day-to-day business operation as possible. This project required shuffling several existing systems between various workspaces and offices and adding a couple of new computers to the network. The office restructuring project also included rearranging the front office to allow office staff to more efficiently handle incoming patients. For example, I recently did a consulting job for a doctor’s office in which I was tasked with extending a small TCP/IP network to new office space adjacent to the existing space.
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One consultant gives his assessment of the software and explains how it worked on a recent engagement.Īs an IT consultant, chances are that you regularly walk into projects that require you to make physical alterations to an existing network. When you need to document your client's network, consider NetworkView, inexpensive shareware that can be run from a floppy.
Perform a quick network inventory with NetworkView
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