# How a Linklamp visit runs: port photos, signoff, rollback

## Your engineer stays in charge

The visit runs on your bridge call: Teams, Zoom or a phone bridge. Your engineer opens the change, watches links come up, and says when the visit is done. The person on site does not configure, re-address or reboot anything your engineer has not asked for.

## Photos the ticket can use

Every labelled port is photographed before anything moves and again after, with its label tape in frame. A photo without a label only shows cords; a photo with the label ties a port to a row of your map, so your engineer can check a repatch from the thread.

If your client already labels ports, their scheme goes on the tape. If not, we propose one: SW1-23 for switch 1, port 23; A-09 for panel A, port 9. It follows common TIA-606 practice, which is a voluntary standard, not a legal requirement.

## Rollback, when you want it

Say "keep the old switch mounted until signoff" and the replacement goes into a free rack unit beside it. If signoff fails, cords go back to the old switch, matching the before photos, and your engineer decides what happens next.

## No port map? Trace first

Where labels are missing, the visit begins with a trace stage: each cord followed, both ends labelled, and the current port map written down. You get that map with the photos, and the repatch to your new layout can follow in the same window or a second one.

## What lands in the ticket

Before and after photos of every labelled port, the traced map if there was one, the time on and off site, and close-out notes: anything unexpected, anything left as it was, and where the old switch went.

## The example, step by step

1. On site: Arrive inside the client window; office manager has the key. Check in on the bridge on Teams. Remote: Dana joins on Teams and opens the change.
2. On site: Photograph the closet, then every labelled port before anything moves. Remote: Dana gets the before photos in the ticket thread.
3. On site: Unmount the old switch, mount the replacement in its place, power it. Remote: Dana confirms the new switch is up on management.
4. On site: Repatch row by row to your 24-row map. Remote: Dana watches links come up as cords move.
- Signoff: Dana confirms phones 1-8 up and powered; APs 9-12 up and powered; workstations 13-20 have link; printer 21 has link; x-ray sensor PC 22 has link; firewall uplink 23 up. Nothing after this happens until then.
5. On site: If signoff fails: remount the old switch and move the cords back, matching the before photos. Remote: Dana calls the rollback.
6. On site: Photograph every labelled port after; label the old switch and leave it on site. Leave close-out notes. Remote: Dana gets the after photos and notes for the ticket and closes the change.

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Source: [Brady: TIA-606-C cable labeling standards (summary of the voluntary standard)](https://www.bradyid.com/resources/tia-606-c-cable-labeling-standards), viewed November 9, 2026.

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