portfolio: First Herd map. After 5 weeks, I made a tool that worked...

I had a room with two benches of computers, identified by sequential numbers assigned when they were installed. The users, and software tools, all knew the systems by processor part number. So job 1 was to translate part numbers into identifiers. Expert advice was to open a spread-sheet and search for the part number.

It took a few months to convince everyone else that part numbers should be on stickers on the computers too. Until I'd established myself and made that change, this was my one-page paper condensation of the spread sheet. WITH location on bench surfaces!

Here's what it looked like a month later:
www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/21439302531

You can see that A-10 8700P isn't entered correctly (should be "A10 (newline) 8700P", leftmost, second row from top) and there are green outlines around entries which were erased when they were removed. But I was proud of this graphic. Separating the prefix A4-6-8-10-12 / i3-5-7-9 etc from the specific model number meant instancines of a given prefix could be located quickly, with the sequential numbers easy to find too. "CH" and "H" KVM channel
entries were on different lines so they could be picked up as one or the other.

I re-drew the whole business from scratch to show the addition of more computers on bench 3, to the right, but getting the processor part numbers onto the id stickers on each computer was the better solution.

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Taken on: March 26, 2018

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