Horror rack

[u/Cosomeister]

[u/thedarbo]

Brother that is calm. Maybe 48 cables

[u/Cavalol → u/thedarbo]

Yeah, this isn’t clean but you could still follow any of the cables from one end to the other. Hardly gore

[u/mindedc → u/Cavalol]

I'll never forget the day I walked into an on-site contracting job and the customer wanted me to take a look at a chassis switch. The question I had was where was the dammed switch. There were probably 6 racks in the room and the layer of patch cables over the gear was easily 6+ inches, no lights, fan noise, etc.. I've now (25 years later) seen worse but that was the most shocking way to see a truly bad idf...

[u/neopod9000 → u/thedarbo]

Yeah, go ahead and add 4 more racks and then make them all plug into this one.

[u/thedarbo → u/neopod9000]

You must have seen my environment

[u/Bourriks]

First day ?

I've seen worse and dirtier.

[u/OldGuySOB → u/Bourriks]

Much worse !

[u/soupeh → u/Bourriks]

Daily

[u/Scrawf53]

That’s not too bad really. It’s the ones where you cannot see the equipment for cables that are a problem ha ha

[u/immoloism → u/Scrawf53]

Even those start looking good after you get you first cabinet where you make the client sign a waiver form before you start.

[u/zmannz1984]

Eh. Looks like most of the small biz racks in my area. Just needs some org on the patch cables. I have given up keeping some of mine clean because my customers keep me busy messing with shit they shouldn’t and wreck it anyway. I work for a doctor that likes to change connections at random when there is any small problem, even wifi issues.

[u/zmannz1984 → u/[deleted]]

Well this guy thinks he understands electrical engineering. Every time their mesh network loses a node, he thinks it is a “ground plane issue”. In reality, the farthest nodes are plugged into gfci-protected receptacles alongside their lab equipment because he won’t even pay for me to run a dedicated circuit to the nodes, much less new drops to make them into actual wired nodes.

They have one autoclave type thing that rarely gets used, but when they do, it has enough humidity around to trip the gfci at random until it gets up to temp. The random trips usually keep the mesh nodes off long enough that they go into a default mode and they won’t recover without initiating the connection from the controller. So between the time they call and i get there, there are usually enough patches moved around that i couldn’t effectively troubleshoot without a visit, then i have to get there and figure out what connections got moved. We are going on 6 months of this repeating and he still doesn’t get it. Thankfully the management for the property does get it and has basically automated forwarding all the extra charges to their TI account, so i always get paid.

[u/dj-marcus-puxel9 → u/zmannz1984]

Das kenne ich, war mal itvadmin bei einem Zahnarzt. Und das password von Mailserver das in etwa wie e3f4g5 lautete durfte man natürlich auch keinesfalls ândrrn 😡

[u/CLE-Mosh]

My sweet summer child....

[u/whippy_grep]

Bless your heart, son.

[u/Jeff-J777]

That is not a horror rack, that is just a normal rack. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it a 2. I have seen far far far wose.

[u/LerchAddams]

I can still see equipment back there.

Steel yourself, there other fates worse than this that await you.

[u/SeaPersonality445]

Why the drama? Is it your first day?

[u/mondychan]

far from bad

[u/ISCSI_Purveyor]

Forget the rack. Let's talk about the schmoo that is on the top of the server to the right of the rack.

[u/Cosomeister → u/ISCSI_Purveyor]

Not a server but a UPS. Whats is it doing? No idea, not gonna touch it

[u/Y-Master → u/ISCSI_Purveyor]

I think this ups is used as a ladder for 10 years 🤣

[u/JohnCulhane]

Doesnt look to bad.

[u/ech0cide]

i will never understand the "old guard" using so many patch panels for no reason. that rack could be condensed to a half cab with one panel

[u/Mediocre_Contract984]

you are on ingining things

[u/Wysguy_J]

that looks pretty good compared to some of the closets I've worked in

[u/Kanjii_weon]

not horror if it works!

[u/SpaceGuy1968]

That's an amateur mess.... Like low ball amateur

[u/Twout_Catcher_2009]

That’s PG Horror

[u/MaleficentCustomer55]

While not the nicest looking rack, I'm more concerned about the step stool to the right of the rack.

[u/X-KaosMaster-X]

I bet I could trace a wire faster in that, rather then having to undo the CLEAN wire management....🤯

[u/19RockinRiley69]

Wait wait wait, what is being used as a step, is that a server or ups???

[u/Ethernetman1980]

You could consolidate that all into one patch panel and some 1ft patch cords and move the Catalyst up and the whole rack would look way cleaner. I've got no room to talk though I do no sooner get one cleaned up and it needs it done again. Hard to do if the company never gives you any scheduled down time to do it.

[u/indvs3]

This is horror in the same way that the Simpsons Halloween specials are horror.

[u/rootofallstevil]

My old job had 2 6509's fully populated with cat5e in a cabinet without any cable management. We called it the water fall and the cables were so dense you couldn't see either switch.

[u/greenscoobie86]

This is great. I live for stuff like this. Cleaning this up is so rewarding 🙃

[u/thepfy1]

That's just a normal rack.

[u/broesel314]

20 bucks on the batteries in that UPS are dry as a nuns nasty

[u/waltotheter]

Ya this is an easy one

[u/PocketBanana0_0]

Sometimes I want to post old POTS and phone systems that are outside in peds and rhino cabinets, that shit dunks on most rackmount systems

[u/wireknot]

It looks like, in the beginning, there were cable chases/tie points available, but no one took advantage of them. Looks like a project for you!

[u/loganwachter]

Just pulled a catalyst 3750 out of production today. Workhorses to the max.

[u/sugafree80]

The horror is outside of that rack....is this in a jungle?

[u/Sevokaz]

I've seen worse.

[u/linux-usr69]

It's bad, but I've seen worse. Much much worse

[u/Y-Master]

Not clean but not an horror story. Give me 1 hour and this will be clean again.

[u/Realistic-Concept766]

This rack will tell you horror stories at night

[u/Extra_Housing_2721]

I've seen worse

[u/pabskamai]

Not that bad …

[u/Genoblade1394]

Uh that’s a walk in the park, I setup mine with 6inch cables and all, come back in 9 to 12 mo and my workstation tech have it a gory mess grrrrr

[u/Peetahbread]

You must have very clean shoes and hands if you that that's a nightmare.

[u/Ok-Smoke-3359]

"Petit joueur" !

[u/english_mike69]

That is just a minor disturbance in the force…

[u/Fractional-_-]

I've seen much worse

[u/techsavior]

You must be new here.

[u/Jeffs_Tech_Account]

I love reading all of these comments from network / cable guys.
As an IT Manager, I looks at something like this, and say to myself, "a little untidy....but not too bad." LOL

[u/Sharkwagon]

This isn’t even the worst rack I’ve seen this week

[u/BrightAsparagus7810]

I've seen much worse

[u/come_ere_duck]

Not terrible from what I've seen but definitely could do with a tidy up, could knock this out in 1 day.

[u/IGDFC]

Tardas más en averiguar que cable va en cada puerto que en ordenarlo, sin VLANes en 1h está hecho

[u/Danowolf]

That four hours clean up. Only casualty is the user's disconnected "inadvertently".

[u/Unhappy_Assist_6351]

Where is the horror?

Is there a dead rat at the bottom of the rack?

This is nearly neat. Even cute.

[u/MisterHole123]

Not too bad tbh. This is very average. Not every network guy will spend hours obsessing with cable management and for good reason. It works regardless