On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:46:14AM -0500, Matt Simmons wrote: > While everyone that I've talked to agrees that both ends need labeled. The > question is what do you put on them. The schools of thought as far as I am > aware are: > > 1) Every cable end's label says exactly what the other end is connected to, > including hostname and port number
that's what we do. in our datacenter, a run might pass thru 2 or more patch panels, so each cable only indicates it's start and end. the labels are the same on both ends. Here's a few photos of how we label: http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery-new/e_dc_build_2008-10-06/IMG_5631 http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery-new/e_dc_build_2008-10-06/IMG_5633 http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery-new/e_dc_build_2008-10-06/IMG_5635 -j _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
