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Pro tip: started labeling every cable run with a $2 tape roll, saved a client outage at 2am
Had a rough Tuesday at a client site in Reno. Their switch stack went down around 9pm and I was tracing cables by feel in a dark closet for 40 minutes. Turned out the uplink between floors 2 and 3 was mislabeled from a job done 2 years back. Now I bring a roll of colored electrical tape and tag both ends of every run the second I unbox it. Anyone else got a cheap trick that keeps their rack from turning into spaghetti?
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elliotc1019d ago
Did you check the other end too or just the switch side? Tagging only one end is what bites you later, since the next guy pulls a run and now the label points to the wrong port. Do both ends the same day or the tape just makes the lie easier to trust.
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