[TriLUG] Labelling conventions...

[Chris Knowles]

Excellent suggestions... 

Here's what I was thinking of... 

We've got 23 switches, with fiber connecting them to the backbone and
copper out to the desks.

Since the label maker we have uses a 5 char label for wire, was going
with something like this...

The Switches get a label, $BUILDING + "S" + $CODE.
Where $BUILDING is A B or C and $CODE is A-Z identifying the switch.
Each building has it's own A-Z for $CODE.

Wires get labeled based on the switch they connect to.  This, going to
the first switch in building C, CSA#  Where # is 1-24... that being the
number of ports...

sounds to me like that's similar to the some of the other ideas...

However, the problem comes in with the fiber... Since it connects
switches, which switch gets the naming rights?  I could slap two labels
on each fiber, but that's annoying.

Anyway, thanks for all of your ideas and input...

CJK



On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:18 -0500, Chris Knowles wrote:
> So, we're finally upgrading/refreshing/ripping-out-and-replacing our
> network here at $COMPANY. 
> 
> I have inherited a rat's nest network, wires completely unlabeled, no
> wire management... it's crazy.
> 
> So I'm working to make things better... 
> 
> However, the thing that's giving me fits... labeling the wires.  I don't
> want to just label them 1, 2, 3, 4, and I also don't really want to
> label them "Jim's PC" "Mary's PC" etc... (This is how several labels
> here are currently, which is really handy as there hasn't been a Mary in
> that building for 5 years now... )
> 
> So I was wondering what you network admins out there might do... Or any
> good websites on the subject... My Google-fu is weak at the moment.
> 
> Thanks again...
> CJK
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