Chassis Swap on Cisco 65xx series

[1johnhoffman]

Thanks for the candid video. Please have a look at this for a comparison: Cisco 6509 Cat6 harness onto gigabix mounts

[BellyJellyJunkie]

ok maybe its just me but i see no video here

[sf200425997]

what a mess of a cabling :)

[produKtNZ]

Who the hell wears a purple t-shirt :S

[Dillinger128]

ive seen squirrels make nests that looked cleaner then that... best practice best practice period... clean that cabling up!

[caliking323k]

I've worked on alot of 6500 switches but never had to replaced a chassis. Maybe a bad blade or power supply. When would this be necessary ? Just wondering...

[throAU]

@caliking323k going from say, 6500 to 6500E chassis for the support of newer supervisor cards?

[maptlbh]

@caliking323k It's usually only done when a failure resides on the backplane.

[sam1983h]

damn u guys did it without unplug the cables... sick ;)

[isilder]

This way took 4 people,and it looks to be about an hour, so thats 4 man hours.

I think I could label , unplug and plug in those cables in much shorter than 4 hours.

The real benefit may be the time from start to finish, at the expense of man hours.

but this way still seems stupid, as you have a lot of risk of unplugging a few cables without labelling them before hand,

and, making some dreadful mistake with the hardware. eg breaking a capacitor off, or something easy to do like that.

[pmgodfrey]

- @ isilder -

Broke a cap off a board, didn't ya. I've never done that on a piece of network equipment...yet.

We had a 6509 a long time ago and the idiots who wired it up strung all the cables across the fan card then down around both power supplies.

Should you have to replace any of the three parts you'd have to unplug everything.

So, I started my own cabling company and promised myself never to make some of the mistakes I've seen throughout the years.

[okimarine4066]

We are salary... and we didn't take any comp time so ultimately it cost nothing.. Also, all those cables are labeled.

[dicksonaaron]

next year im taking classes on networking,does it pay good

[Dracolith1]

ALWAYS label every network cable with a cable ID when the cable is installed. And ALWAYS label with a remote and local PORT ID, before plugging it in.

That's basic emergency documentation.

Cables can be damaged or become unplugged,

regardless of performing stunts like this or not.

[colinstu]

Lol, that saved some time. Wouldn't want to unplug that octopus!