[AusNOG] "Best practice" - guidelines, standards etc?

[Jake Anderson]

I'd be interested in hearing about what replies you get btw.
You will probably also be referred to the SAGE.au list, might be worth 
looking in to.

On 11/06/13 10:56, Ross Wheeler wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I've been asked to assist with the redesign of a medium-sized 
> business's IT infrastructure and am looking for any actual standards 
> or guidelines relevant to Australia. The current site is quite a mess, 
> ad-hoc additions and changes over many years and multiple people in 
> charge.
>
> Particular issues would include such things as OH&S requirements, 
> best-practice for server/comms/cable racks, server room considerations 
> against most risks etc.
>
> Photos of some "well thought out" installations and racks would be 
> beneficial.
>
> To be clear, this is not a multi-million dollar datacentre. It's an 
> entity of a couple of hundred staff with perhaps 2 or 3 racks of 
> servers and comms gear, probably one additional enclosure for cable 
> termination, patch etc.
>
> They want to depart from the old "spaghetti everywhere" environment to 
> something more managable. Suspended floors and rack doors to simply 
> cover the mess up (but leave the underlying problems) are not where 
> they want to be. They're sick of downtime and network instability 
> because the wrong cable has been unplugged, or in accessing one cable 
> another has been dislodged. Of avoidable downtime because nobody can 
> find or follow anything to fix or work around a problem, etc.
>
> Anyone got anything they can share?
>
> TIA,
> RossW
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