A test report is the only part of a cabling job that outlives everyone
The installers move on, the contact at the client changes, and the ceiling gets closed. The certification report is what is left to argue with.
Structured cabling is warranted on the assumption that it was installed and tested to a standard. In practice the testing is the step that gets compressed when a handover date slips, and it is compressed precisely because nothing visible goes wrong when you skip it.
What you lose is not the test. What you lose is the record. Two years later, when a floor has intermittent faults, the argument is about whether the link was ever good. With a certification report per outlet, that argument takes an afternoon. Without one, it takes a re-pull.
Two practical points. First, certify to the class the cabling was sold as, not the class the tester defaults to; a Cat6A channel signed off on a Cat6 test is a document that proves the wrong thing. Second, keep the reports with the as built drawings rather than with the installer, because the installer is the one party guaranteed not to be there when the question comes up.
If a project needs a tester rather than owning one, that is a normal thing to ask a supply desk for.
Source: Data Systems desk
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