THE CCNP EXAM TOPICS COVERED IN THIS
CHAPTER INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
Understand the document control process and
documentation standards.
Establish a baseline indicative of optimal network
performance.
Create system topology documentation and diagrams.
When the network is down, one of your most important troubleshooting
tools can be your network documentation. Accurate and
up-to-date network documentation can make the difference
between a short outage and an extended one.
In this chapter, we will focus on the network documentation that you need to have available
and how to create this documentation. We will first study a network baseline; then we’ll look
at the network configuration table and the network topology diagram. The documents created
in this and the following chapter will allow you to effectively troubleshoot a network problem
even if you are new to the network itself.