Free quiz · Appendix B of Book 8 · Hotels and hospitality

Score your hotel network diagram

Open your current drawing, the real one. Tick each question you can answer yes. Each yes is worth 5 points.

Partly means no. "Most of it has a zone table" is a no.
Verbal knowledge doesn't count. If the answer lives in your head and not on the page, it's a no.
Check, don't remember. Look at one real device or cable and compare.

This is the hotels and hospitality scorecard from Book 8, Draw Secure Hotel Network Diagrams. Each book in the series has its own. Pick another industry.

Part 1. Pages and readers

1. Do you have separate pages for separate readers: at least an overview, a logical page and a physical page, each saying who it is for?CHAPTER 12. Could the general manager read the overview and say, in their own words, where the hotel takes cards, what guests can touch and what stops when the internet goes?CHAPTER 23. Does every page carry a title block with the property code, the current brand, the date and a revision, filled in?CHAPTER 0, 24. Is there one legend for colors, line styles and bands, and does every page follow it?CHAPTER 3, 4

Part 2. Zones and VLANs

5. Are payments, hotel operations, property servers, voice, guests, events, room technology, building systems, safety and network management each drawn in a named zone (or is the decision to combine two of them written down)?CHAPTER 36. Does every VLAN appear in exactly one zone, with its ID, name, subnet and gateway, including the guest VLANs whose gateway isn't the firewall?CHAPTER 47. Are the event VLANs drawn as a pool, with the rule that one event can't see another?CHAPTER 4, 88. Is the firewall drawn where the zones meet, with every member of the pair and a table of its interfaces and the zone each one serves?CHAPTER 3, 49. Is every box the hotel doesn't own drawn with its owner and its zone: the brand's router, the guest gateway, the TV head-end, the lock gateways, the controls contractor's equipment?CHAPTER 3, 11

Part 3. The building

10. Does every drawn backbone link carry the label printed on the real cable, and does every floor uplink show all its members?CHAPTER 511. Is there a riser view (or a table) showing every floor closet, what's in it and how it reaches the MDF?CHAPTER 512. Are the plant room's networked controllers drawn, each with an owner, a custodian and a criticality, and is every way in from outside (contractor VPN, cellular modem, vendor cloud) drawn as a line?CHAPTER 613. Is there a failover page that says, in front-desk words, what happens when an internet line, a firewall, a floor uplink, the power or the cloud PMS fails, including how keys get cut?CHAPTER 714. Does every SSID appear with its VLAN, zone and security, and does the guest SSID say that guests can't see each other?CHAPTER 8

Part 4. Conversations and policy

15. Are the PMS interface conversations drawn (post to room, keys, phones, TV, Wi-Fi login), each from the side that starts it, with its port or condition?CHAPTER 916. Are the important denials drawn on purpose: guests and events to anything internal, every other zone to payments, building systems to the internet?CHAPTER 9, 1017. Is there a flow register with a default-deny row and a zone matrix with an answer in every cell, and has it been compared to the firewall's actual rules in the last twelve months?CHAPTER 10, 16

Part 5. Keeping it true

18. Do the typed facts (addresses, serials, VLAN tables) come from one source of record, such as NetBox, instead of being typed into the drawing?CHAPTER 1219. Has the drawing been checked against the property since the last renovation, reflag or 90 days (whichever came last), with the differences in a dated gaps register (WS-11)?CHAPTER 13, 1520. Could you send the brand, a vendor or a buyer's due diligence team a version with management IPs, serials and circuit IDs removed, within ten minutes?CHAPTER 14

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Part 1. Pages and readers

Part 2. Zones and VLANs

Part 3. The building

Part 4. Conversations and policy

Part 5. Keeping it true

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