I just took over the system administration of this school a couple months ago and one of the first things I thought when I was introduced in the running system was "This is gonna be interesting"
When I took over the system I had no idea what I was getting in to. There was NO documentation. Nothing, not even a paper with a pencil-drawn network map or something. I got the Hostnames of the School PCs by looking into the bare dhcp config file where this was once hardcoded.
The serverroom looks like a wine cellar with water stains on the floor and made out of clay bricks. In this room are the main switches which are also not documented - no numbers, no descriptions, nobody knows if a port is used on the other end or not. In the summer I'll have to do that myself so I can do some debugging if a PC somewhere in the house has a network related problem.
The main server (running freeBSD) has some good hardware pieces but someone ordered it in a normal case and so the case was put on the bottom of the server rack (standing there looking like some desktop pc that was placed in the rack)
In the summer when nobody is around I'll change this system completely and bring some order into this chaos. I fought weeks until someone found the root password to the main Server which hosts DHCP, DNS, WEB, Active Directory, Samba and some VMs.
But the system is so unstrutured right now I couldn't even tell if someone broke into the school network.
so you see.. this is gonna be interesting..
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