Day In The Life of a Network Engineer | Instagram Takeover | Zero To Engineer

everyone Chris Mendes you're gonna take over the sygic platform for today I'm the former ZT alumni and mentor I'm the mighty networks platform if you guys are aware that wanted to take over show you a little bit about my day what I do on a daily basis are almost a daily basis and hopefully you guys enjoy life on the network engineer kind of what I do first thing in the morning and you know throughout midday and sometimes in the evenings stay tuned for some exciting things so some of the things I like first to do is to come in and this is our switch stack our layer 3 core switches make sure there are no you know amber lights or nothing flickering or something out of the out of the blue just to make sure you know what the day will consist of and make sure nothing's breaking kind of loud in here this is our data center but this is what I like to do you know kind of Swing bound down by the basement now I don't want you folks to think that as a network engineer you were gonna be doing help desk duties because that's likely not the case I was just doing it and I occasionally do it simply because that's where I started to have background in it I started in support so you know I'm able to do and I like occasionally doing it as well I don't mind it and I enjoy it so I don't think you're gonna be doing help desk duties as well as a network engineer odds are if you're nine the field already or you're trying to break into it you're probably gonna start in the help desk side I just to get your feet wet and then just work your way up from there but anyways ask something cool to show you guys kind of give you a little preview what I'll be doing later today this is the fun stuff in network engineering all this for me so if you guys can or cannot distinguish these boxes they are switches and all these will be deployed within the next month as you can see we have quite a few up here as well it all stack later today I will be showing you showing you guys you know kind of or I'll try to be showing you guys an unboxing just a little preview what I'll be doing later tonight now part of being on the network engineering field or on this side of the spectrum is that you're gonna have to deal with you likely have to have some sort of hands-on on the VoIP system as you probably know along the course you'll learn some VoIP granite is just you know kind of a standards things as far as voice VLAN and QoS and simple things like that but once you get out on the field you're gonna have to or you're gonna deal with different VoIP systems as you can see here where or I'm man we would deal with Mitel connect or my towel you know other companies are going to deal with cisco is what Polycom different different vendors but a long story short of it is that you're gonna have to deal with voice and I deal with voice saw on a daily basis almost or almost you know weekly basis just because we're such a big in big city so we have to deal with a lot of a lot of voice but once it once everything is in place it usually stays that way unless you have to make some minor changes or updates to it but that's kind of the voice side of things I will show you guys some some of the phones that we have as well this is one of the model phones that we have this is an IP 480 from Mitel there's a 485 which is just exactly the same thing only a color screen to 420 which is a little smaller courtesy phone version regardless these are the phones that we are dealing with and you know you guys are gonna deal with something similar in the sense that you're gonna you know they have more features to it and you can learn a system I've I've kind of got my hands dirty with this Mitel system so I've uh you know learned a lot and how to build turn things but on the networking side of things all you leave much have to do is set up the switches your POV switches if they do support POA which most new switches do nowadays you're gonna have to configure a voice VLAN or you know depending on the vendor you're gonna set up the switches a little differently but it all comes back to voice so you're gonna have to Bill you know your voice VLANs and your DHCP scope for your voice Network so on and so forth but like I said different vendors are different and they're gonna have to be you know set up to how they support it just a little something for you guys voice is also a part of my daily thing and part of our networking that you'll probably experience as well you know not probably on a vast majority of basis but maybe just a little bit so just an FYI for you guys alright everyone so we're gonna unbox the first switch that would be doing tonight we're gonna do a total of three as you can see just in the usual switch box or if you have never unboxed a switch you got your usual power cord you know you got your ears some screws for the rats and cable management in there or some somewhat of a cable management you're going to use at least the ears portion of this you know once we get rid of that you have the switch itself so as you can probably see I need two hands to take this guy out but it's a 48 for switch 2960 ex p OE with two lists of p slots if you guys use you know fiber connections in your network so I'm gonna unbox three of these and I'll show you guys how they look like once there are one throughout all right folks you see those two stacking modules that are in there the ones I say stack one and two on both switches I'm gonna have a little quiz with you guys right now see if you guys can figure it out and give it a correct answer stay tuned going back to that quiz if you chose option B which was to provide redundancy to the switches you are right short of it is that those stacking modules basically do what they what's in the word they stack your switches especially with the 2960 X models this was one of the first questions I was asked when I interviewed I didn't know it at the time but it provides redundancy to your switches in other words if you have a say for example VLAN 10 across both switches and one of your switches dies but the other one is still alive you can move towards either from the top bottom or bottom top and still have access to those same VLANs because this is the same configuration for the both switches you just obviously you have one switch that's dead but and you probably have to make some minor adjustments to it but it provides redundancy and it's pretty cool we haven't had anything die on us yet knock on wood but that's what it it does and it's pretty cool you can stack up to four switches I believe it is could be mistaken depending on the model if you have like a layer 3 switch you can stack up to maybe five or six again depends on the model but hope you guys enjoy a little quiz maybe I'll have something later on today but I'm gonna wait for this witches to boot up and I'll show you guys kind of a little quick configuration than I do for these switches to minimize how much time I spend doing it so stay tuned so you saw in the previous picture that I have a template that I have that and that I use to when I create this or builder switches it's not needed but it's something cool to have just so you can just copy and paste them into your switch rather than having to type each command out I mean as you can see in the CLI right here a little bit it saves me all that trouble I do boo from that and you know here are the switches so the configure is nice - or the template is nice to have again it's not necessary but it'll save you a few minutes and you know once you once you have it it's just a matter of copy and paste and let it do its thing I highly recommend it it'll save you some time and you can carry it with you you know you can adjust it as needed and and so on and so forth but it's definitely helpful so what about wraps it up with the switch config for today I wasn't going to show you guys what goes on the CLI cuz it's a little bit confidential so I don't want to get in trouble for that or get an extra T in trouble for it but in any case I will check back in later tonight as we can erect these switches up and power them up and put them into production and then you guys will see hopefully I don't have my hands full but I probably will just because I need a rack them and so on and so forth hopefully you guys enjoy this I know it's a little kind of a basic info kind of redundant a little bit but it's just basically to show you guys what's going on here what I do and what on as being a network engineer you know local tips little tricks here in there that you guys can take and apply it to you guys whenever you guys are in your workplace or or in you know interviews or whatever the case may be so hopefully I drop some knowledge or at least a little bit I'm sure I'll be checking back in at different days doing different things but I'll see you guys later tonight and stay tuned alright everyone so new switches are in place don't mind the cable mess here those have kind of been the story here but new cables or new switches are wrecked and they are in production the Austin rise doesn't take us long but this is the fun part of network engineering all right everyone well thank you for a turn tuning in to this Instagram takeover today I really appreciate it hope you guys enjoyed the day of a network engineer what it is to do what I do especially right now that one in the middle of a few switch upgrades but in any case I hope you guys had fun we're going back to the ZTE course I highly recommend it for anyone trying to break into the industry I mean I'll be straightforward with you guys this is a course that really launched me I took that course and then I went through the whole process and after that I knew what I wanted to do and like I mentioned earlier today I started up in the helpdesk odds are many of you will start theirs as well especially with if you have zero experience but hey you might get lucky and break into engineering network well it's not impossible but that's where I started and I worked my way up there I just wanted to thank ZTE again as I've done many times because because of them I Lander where I'm in right now so you know thank you to everyone for tuning in hope you guys had fun I hope you guys enjoyed it and you know if you have any questions again feel free to a friend request me or send me a message underscore see Dez I'm just ninety one underscore I don't even know my own user name in any case I'll put it right here and then I swipe up for any more information on ZTE and let me want to tell you this they will help you a lot they will teach you everything you need to know and you you won't regret it I'll tell you that much so hope you guys had fun hope you guys have a good night oh and by the way one more thing just as an FYI and I don't want anyone to be scared but I'm just leave I just got home right now after a 12-hour day being in the IT industry you can only do certain things after hours or before hours so you know it's just an FYI for you guys don't be don't think us an everyday thing because it's not but just as an FYI again thank you again everyone I'll keep this I wanted to keep this short but apparently not so thank you again hope you guys have a good night sweat buff for more info and just to remember it's time to level up you

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Views: 126,816

Keywords: IG takeover, instagram takeover, network engineering, day in the life, it jobs

Id: K9RPLkz3Te0

Length: 12min 31sec (751 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 08 2020