Keeping Excel & Visio Network Documentation Current is Impossible If you are, it’s likely that while your documentation is more in-depth than just using one or the other, your headaches are also bigger because you’re dealing with the quirks of two tools. You may even be documenting with a mashup of both Visio and Excel. It also leaves much to the imagination: if you have one file showing patch panel connections and another showing switch ports, you don’t have an easy way to see the physical location of a connection point. Unfortunately, using Excel for documentation is also entirely manual and, as a result, particularly prone to errors. Mapping it out initially can be quite a project, but as with any effort to document the network, well worth the time investment in the long run. There is a great deal of information in a network that, if documented, will keep headaches at bay - however, if the network is larger or complex in some way, it is all but impossible to get all of this information onto a page.Įxcel is another go-to standard for network documentation. Visio might get you started - but it doesn’t scale up well. Visio network diagrams cause three major headaches: no easy way to keep it up to date without manual effort, no relationships between diagrams, and no clarification between the Logical and Physical networks. Truth be told, Visio isn’t meant for network documentation. Automatic Discovery & Easy Integrationsĭo you use Visio or Excel to document the network? If you do, you’re not alone: they are the number one and number two top tools for network documentation.Outside Plant/Fiber Infrastructure Management.
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