Chapter Summary
Network maintenance involves continuous auditing. Audits ensure that you have a baseline as a measuring stick for future evaluations.
The five audits typically performed on a network include the inventory audit, facility audit, operational audit, efficiency audit, and security audit.
The inventory and facility audits should be conducted before the network is providing service, but the other audits are conducted once the network has begun providing service.
The inventory audit is a count of the networking devices to be used on the network. The best time to do this audit is when the equipment first arrives.