That would be excellent for both the administrator, and anyone walking down the row with a wand in their pocket. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:37 PST, Bill Stewart said: > > A password recovery method I've found very frustrating is to use the > > serial number or similar value that's on a label on the bottom of the > > equipment. > > Related pet peeve: Inventory and asset control people that stick a sticker on > hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at a later date. Works > fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the front or the back of > the rack. But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuck on an empty space on the > printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged into a chassis... >
Sounds like RFID FTW!
Actually, I have no idea if it'd work, maybe someone else does. Seems like it'd be nice to be able to just wand a rack and poof out comes a list of everything in it.
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