{"id":2629,"date":"2017-03-11T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/patch-panels-and-switch-ports-howto\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:04:24","slug":"patch-panels-and-switch-ports-howto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/03\/11\/patch-panels-and-switch-ports-howto\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch Panels and Switch Ports HowTo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple demonstration that involves creating and adding two patch panels to a Rack in Device42, and connecting them both together and to a switch in three different ways!<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration assumes you have at least one Building, Room, and Rack with a switch created in Device42, but you can still follow along if you don\u2019t, creating them on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>The first panel, \u201cPanel A\u201d, will be a 48-port model, mounted facing forward and connected the all 48 ports of the switch. <\/p>\n<p>The second panel, \u201cPanel B\u201d, is a 24-port model, mounted on the top of the rack facing rearward, for server connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Panel A is patched to Panel B, providing servers in the rack connectivity to switch ports.<\/p>\n<p>Download the Device42 appliance today @ <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.device42.com\/download\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.device42.com\/download\/<\/a> and find about 90% of your infrastructure in about 90 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Please leave any questions, comments, or requests for new HowTo&#8217;s below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple demonstration that involves creating and adding two patch panels to a Rack in Device42, and connecting them both together and to a switch in three different ways! The demonstration assumes you have at least one Building,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[265,266,267,268,146,269,230,21,270,271,272,273,274,275,236],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-back","tag-connect","tag-connections","tag-connectivity","tag-device42","tag-front","tag-how","tag-howto","tag-make","tag-panels","tag-patch","tag-ports","tag-switch","tag-switchports","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}