Network Admin Life - Replacing the Failed Switch in the Emergency Department

Get a front row seat to the replacement of the failed switch stack member. Slot-4 to be precise.
#networkadmin #networking #extremenetworks

[@captjack5169]

Always a joy to see a fellow admin at work. Thank you for sharing.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Glad you enjoyed it God bless!

[@ngreed]

Thanks for the "Real Time" video. Nice to see the process real time. God Bless.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Glad you enjoyed it. God bless!

[@RogierYou]

I use a red patch cable between modem and router and then yellow patch cables to connect between switches. And another color for other things that might have been hooked up that are not part of the regular network. That way I can always quickly identify the most important network cables. Pull the red cable if an unintended email was send ;-)

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Color coding is a great way to go. I wish I had taken more time and ordered colored cables when implementing some of our wire closets. God bless!

[@hkb17]

Thank you for showing and sharing with us some real life scenarios that will help me remember things

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Glad you found the video useful! God bless!

[@goofball1_134]

I am trying to join the IT industry and seeing videos like this are really cool. It's also awesome to understand everything being said and talked about here even at just a surface level. When you brought up multicasting and STP being possible issues on the switch I was like 'I've heard those before!'. lol. Currently I am not employed but I have earned my A+ and Server+ certificates and am a mere few weeks away from taking my Network+ and then hopefully onto Sec+. But yeah Thanks for uploading videos like these so we can see how the knowledge can be applied in real life scenarios step by step.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

So glad you enjoyed the video. Best of luck in your job hunt! God bless!

[@nightwing09x]

GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU TOO!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Thank you brother! God bless!

[@awstott]

You must have Hercules working there. That UPS in the next rack at the top must be fun to service. Replacing a failed switch is always fun - we're running Cisco and I've lost two in a stack in the last year. We're just starting a project to replace all our access layer switches so hopefully I can get that done before we lose any more.

[@Darkk6969]

Ya, I always put the UPS at bottom of the rack as those things are very heavy. I am guessing they didn't have any space at the bottom for it.

[@TheAbhorrent1]

What cisco switches are you using and what are you thinking of going to

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Luckily I don't have to put them up there. Our engineering department takes care of that for me. Show to to Jose who is an engineering monster! If I design a rack from the ground up, as in our MDF, yes, the UPS units will always go on the bottom. But many of these older racks have designed themselves, meaning no one really put any thought into planning the rack out. That's when you see UPS units at the top of the rack. God bless!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

We do not use Cisco. We are an Extreme Networks shop. Mostly X460-G2 switches. God bless!

[@xkiller137]

"finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire" LOL nice one.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Thanks! I just got done with my recurrent firearms training. God bless!

[@samjones4327]

Mornin and Grace & Peace 2 U and your family brother! Thanks 4 this awesome MDF closet showcase! I love it when we can see hands on work! The cabling is great and I'm glad the swap out went good and without any hiccups!! Well thanks again and have a great and blessed day and happy mothers day to your wife as well! God Bless!🙏🏽

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Thank you brother. This is actually the Emergency Department closet. The MDF would be downstairs from here. But this is my favorite closet because right outside the door is the coffee shop! God bless!

[@samjones4327]

@@NetworkAdminLife I hear that! Coffee is essential!

[@anthonydefallo9295]

Love to see extreme!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Finally, an Extreme fan! God bless!

[@jacksonai1231]

Thank you for sharing this much appreciated!!!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Glad it was helpful! God bless!

[@tonyw6427]

The one OCD trigger for me is the label on the outside of the left hand wing of the switch between the cage nuts that you had to remove with the old (bad) switch. I was waiting for you to say that you were putting it back as the "last thing to do", but it didn't happen (on camera at least). 😉 We all forget those little things sometimes (at least I do).

[@NetworkAdminLife]

You got me. Next time I go for coffee I'll put the label back on. The closet is right next to the coffee shop! God bless!

[@benedictmpandemothapo851]

AMEN SIR, motivating me

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Glad to hear it. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other. God bless!

[@usmanahmad6844]

I appreciate your Effort!💯

[@NetworkAdminLife]

And I appreciate that! God bless!

[@vk3hau]

17:32 when you said serial port on there , Siri stopped the video and waited for me to say a command. 😏

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Sneaky Siri. Always listening. Gues YOU better be careful what you say! :) God bless!

[@daviddavis4824]

Good to see purple iron deployed, in action. Something besides Cisco or HPE!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I've never heard it called that before. I'm stealing that! Purple iron. God bless!

[@daviddavis4824]

@@NetworkAdminLife I onboarded our company with the extreme networks partner program and they referred to it as “selling purple iron”. That stuck with me. God Bless you too sir.

[@keithsauer3574]

When we were sold on it, guy said, anyone can sell you a box that switches packets. We can sell you purple boxes that switch packets too, but we sell an entire ecosystem. We ended up with the whole Netsight / Purview / control / etc...

[@watch1ngy0utub3]

Supported elevated data cabinets in a manufacturing environment. Doing a quad switch stack code upgrade on a scissor lift 16ft in the air is after hours is a royal pain. Hopefully you got out of there at a decent hour to enjoy the day.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Yeah, I got out of there at a decent hour... if you're on day shift. Didn't get out until 9:30am the next morning. Though the situation you describe sounds like it sucked more than my situation. God bless!

[@vng-alien]

Happy Sunday!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Happy Lord's Day to you too! God bless!

[@Darkk6969]

Cool video. I am curious as to what brand the switches are. Haven't seen those before.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

They are Extreme Networks X460-G2 switches. God bless!

[@svdleer]

Is it Extreme networks? Quite surprised that those are still alive and used. I had stacks failed many times when replacing 1 switch in the stack, and we ended not using them in stacks anymore, and replacing them with Cisco / HP. Nice vid btw!

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I'm surprised you're suprised. They are the only networking equipment I have used for the last 15 years or so. God bless!

[@NutkeyDoesMinecraft]

Love Extreme Networks

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I like them too. Kept food on my table for the last 20 years. God bless!

[@hobsonbeeman7529]

Good video, but I have a few questions. I don't think I have seen "stack" switches? What purpose do they serve other than the obvious purpose a switch normally serves. Are they managed or unmanaged? Who makes them? and.....never admit your old...lol...Thanks

[@cablekitten-xn6pz]

Stacking switches allow you to connect multiple switches, but manage it as one logical switch.

[@Murph9000]

Depending on the exact switch manufacturer, model, and licensed features, you can get some interesting high availability from stacked switches; in addition to managing them as one big combined switch. E.g. you can run aggregated links across multiple switches, so that your uplinks, downlinks, and servers have a high availability (fault tolerant) connection. I.e. no single point of failure and no network pause while STP and/or routing reconfigures for the topology change.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Good question! But @cablekitten-xn6pz and @Murph9000 have already given great answers. And those answers are exactly why I stack my switches. In the stack we have greater port density and greater fault tolerance. God bless!

[@SB-qm5wg]

There is never a good time to touch the ERs gear.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

That is true. But during rush hour is the absolute worst time. God bless!

[@mike6340]

"It will just magically become a stack member and assume a switch id of #4" A great lie told by a salesmen. No IT person actually believes this.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

I was dubious too but in fact, that's exactly what happened. God bless!

[@yihadsamir1368]

can you type your network cabling connection? I did not get well how do you connect them but it sounds very organized.

[@NetworkAdminLife]

Each switch is mounted below a patch panel which runs out to the office areas. That way I only need a 12 inch cable to connect the switch to the patch panel. God bless!