At 10:32 -0500 on 12/06/2010, David Andrews wrote about Re:
Philosophy: curiousity question:
What Ted said. A few weeks ago we did some major electrical work in the
machine room and had to go dark for an hour. When the kids activated
their ESX farm one of the virtual servers needed for DNS was being
recalcitrant, something to do with their whizbang Active Directory...
and they weren't able to investigate it because they didn't have a
external copy of the server farm's IP addresses. "Um... the IP
addresses are documented on the wiki." Whoops.
Most places I have worked have this thing called a Physical Label
pasted on the device with its IPN and FQDN on it so you can
physically identify what Device it is. Too Bad your Wiz Kids never
documented the device inventory that way. Label Makers run under
$25(?) at your local Staples/Office-Outlet/Office-Warehouse or other
Office Supply Store. Sticky Labels are even cheaper and can even been
made by just using the labels off of Tractor Form Label stacks.
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