Cisco Switch Baseline

Purpose

This document describes the public-safe source context for the current data workflow. Detailed Cisco procedures and verified device maintenance belong in cisco-switching-lab.

Verified source context

The private physical lab has verified:

• local console access
• SSH administration
• stable management reachability
• active Gigabit Ethernet links
• public-safe interface descriptions
• gateway and external reachability
• disabled Telnet and web management
• saved baseline configuration

Real hostnames, addresses, serial numbers, MAC addresses, credentials and full configurations are excluded.

Current public data artifacts

The network data repository now implements:

• synthetic device inventory
• synthetic interface baseline
• synthetic topology relationships
• exact CSV contracts
• SQLite loading and constraints
• SQL analysis and quality views
• an aggregated public-safe report
• automated tests and CI

The topology and port-description fields are no longer future tasks; they are part of the implemented model.

Current limitations

• the public sample is static
• no raw CLI output is committed
• no interface error-counter snapshot is yet modeled
• no historical collection timestamps exist
• VLAN 10/20/30/99/998/999 remain a planned segmented lab stage
• Proxmox remains a future source

Next source expansion

A useful next network-data increment would be one reviewed snapshot table with:

• a synthetic snapshot key
• source observation time
• collection time
• selected interface status or counter values
• documented sanitization rules

That extension should be added only after the snapshot grain and retention purpose are defined.