On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (valdis.kletni...@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. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*