Design and Documentation

摘要

What is documentation and why is it important? We hear about "documenting" a network, but we don't often listen. It seems like too much work for too little or no payback. But that way of thinking is wrong. People are starting to talk about it more and more because there is so much critical equipment now being put into networks that companies depend on, and a company can be very cost conscious and want to manage their inventory (asset management). The computer room used to be the place where the mainframe was kept for access to company databases; now it's probably a data center through which a good bit of a company's main business is conducted.