The pre-sales function must populate and maintain the diagram. But that became another of those reasons why I'm glad I'm semi-retired. Probably would be easier if I were a decent programmer, but I kludged something together in the end. Then discovering there's a ton of stuff about VB online, but not much about how to use that inside Visio, or integrate it with other Telecomms essential OSS like Excel so it could generate stuff from spreadsheets, and even export to a spreadsheet. Then figuring out how to combine those two features to create an ability to automate diagram production. Then that Visio supported VB or VB script. Looking through the stencils, realising you could actually slot cards into chassis and create proper as-builts. so Cisco et al thanks for the stencils but beyond basic “PowerPoint”presentation usage little real value. Then hearing them ask 'Where are the IP addresses?". Got close a few times, but kinda gave up after sending many diagrams to clients. Despite Visio having had the ability to add metadata, and even pull it from networks for years, I've yet to find a telecomms company that actually does this. Obviously it makes sense for an IPv6 address to be written in WingDings on your network diagram. Once you've figured out how to shuffle everything around so any new data fits, and wrestled with MS's pseudo-integrated font & style matching. No problem, we'll add an email notification so you can copy & paste from Outlook into your Visio diagram. Box ticked! Then insist that those diagrams be manually updated, even when by automated change request systems that network engineers had no access to. It always amazed me that so many allegdly tech-savvy telecomms businesses insisted every 'network' had a diagram. Or just click on a router and it'd show you config details from the last time the diagram was updated. Like you could create models of optical devices that were modular, then add in attributes for Tx/Rx optics, fibre characteristics and it made it quick and easy to run through link budgets and designs. Or Microsoft is down.īut despite some of it's. But can't because the fault is the Internet is down. So now there'll be network engineers working on faults that might want to check a diagram. It used to be easy to just download a copy of Visio Viewer to check a diagram on a device that didn't have a Visio licence on it. Sadly, Visio became pretty much the industry standard in telecomms. Or is this just another example of MS breaking links with the past just to force 365 subscription take up…
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