IP justification form?

Anyone ever have to fill one of these fun things out??

I am requesting 3 more class C’s on top of a bunch we already have…you have to justify what the new IP’s are going to be used for…ughhh

I don’t think I have ever seen anyone fill one of these out with real information…

They aren’t too bad. We had to request a few more IPs a few summers ago.

If you already have IPs you already have an in.

Just don’t put “I need 3 more routable IPs for printers”

Edit: Also I think since you aready have IPs so its not a big deal but you need to justify all the computers on your network that need IPs with the amount you are requesting. If you only have a desktop and a server on your network, you can’t request like 10 IPs from what I remember. You can only request 2 in that situation.

We have a good relationship with Level3…I was going to get creative and slide in

Amateur Porn webserver 1

somewhere in the middle and see if they say anything…

Ya I don’t think its too hard from everything I remembered. We had a few IPs for web server, some outside access VPN server and a few other wacky ones that ran applications.

Hell, just say you are running a SIP server or gatekeeper.

They want 70% of the IP addresses you are requesting justified :frowning:

From my experience if you already have used up a / they gave you they will give you the same / but never had to justify it. After using so many of the same / sometimes they will bump you up one just so you stop going back lol.

I ran into that problem as well. I wanted one more switch, and 48-port is all they allow. I only need 8 of the ports, for overflow on my current 48-port switch.

They still haven’t approved it and it went to “engineering” for a solution.

Seriously? The engineers need to get involved because I need 8 additional ports for a training room?

Red tape < *

LOL

idk if DHS is like the DoD…but

You need an authority to operate…An authority to connect…you need someone to enable the port on the switch…you need someone else to provision an IP address…You need someone else to plug in the hardware…weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Yep, sounds about right. Need to use an ITSR form to ask for the item, then you need to wait for pending approval to give more information about why. Then, the ports have to be enabled one by one, through individual requests, based on necessity. Ports are locked down by some unknown force of nature, whereas a local administrator should be more than capable.

And don’t get me started on them flying some guy out to install hardware. Seriously? Is that really necessary? I am more than capable of plugging cable A into port B and then using patch cables to get my users online.

I’m afraid for when a switch dies. How long will it take to get a new one, so that my users can work? I have no plan for that, as it is totally out of my hands.

I just received a new color laserjet network printer and I am not even sure of the procedure to get an IP reservation for it. I have a feeling it won’t be installed for a week, because of the phone calls I have to make and then the forms I am surely gonna have to fill out, fax in, and wait for Joe IT guy in WhoKnowsWhereLand to talk to his people, to find out what IP is available, then they’ll go into DHCP and set my reservation.

Baldy sounds like your DR in your BCP plan is non-existent.

He should have a DR plan…he works with DHS…and every office needs to COOP plan :lol:

You can say that again. I just came aboard 3 weeks ago. Now I know why they hired me…

They had one guy trying to cover three locations, and the first week he told me “I don’t know much about 2003 server”

My boss is in Vermont, so setting up anything is becoming a chore as he doesn’t even know my environment and he can’t call the guy who has been doing the 3 sites for 2 years, because he is deaf. All communication has to go through e-mail.

I don’t know much about the procedures yet, and there really is nobody for me to ask. I am figuring things out as they come along, and trying to ask as many questions as I can to everyone involved. At least I know my environment inside and out already, so that if something does happen, I know what is involved to fix it.

WEEEEEEE!!!

There is a COOP book, filled with fun words and “here’s how you turn off a light” and “don’t forget to leave the building” and such.

The IT section is BLANK. I wish I knew what the heck happened… but apparently when the office was created, the IT guy wasn’t involved and nobody knew what to put down.

We do have a COOP plan, but it doesn’t have any IT information listed since the IT person wasn’t involved in it’s creation before I arrived.

Thankfully I have my environment fully documented now. I haven’t added in the IT part of the COOP plan, since I do not know the procedures yet.

My DR plan is simple. Building burns down, I take my tape from the fire safe and restore it to the other office downtown. I put in place my edited Logon Script for my office users to point to the new/documented location. They work again from anywhere else.

If Buffalo dies. Umm… what do I put down as a backup plan? LOL

I’m surprised…EVERYTHING DoD(after 9/11) related has to have a COOP site now…aka random office building with elevator that goes 10 floors underground with server room that you can’t park government cars outside of :lol:

Well, there is a dedicated floor of a building downtown for that. Sure, my users can go there… but, there is no plan for what happens to the data on my servers.

I read the COOP book which was HUGE, and it seems as though when the IT parts were to be updated, they just kinda skipped em, since there was no IT guy.