Very true. Another suggestion I will offer is that it is relatively inexpensive to order cables with pre-printed serial numbers. I get them for about $0.20/cable more than I could buy in bulk and I get them in relatively low quantities. They cost about half of what buying a cable at Fry's would cost. I use a format of XXXXXX-YY.Y where XXXXXX is a unique six digit number for the particular cable and YY.Y is the length of that particular cable. Having these serial numbers triple-printed on self-laminating labels at each end of the cable makes them very easy to read and makes it very easy to be sure before you pull a cable that the A and Z ends are of the same cable, which, can also be a saving factor at 3AM. Owen On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
all you people are just sooooo retro and boring. i like purple, fluorescent lime, ...
the colors make no difference as long as you are consistent. labeling, consistent port use (oob port == power port == switch port ==) are what will bail you out at three in the morning.
randy