As we have a redundant switched network our network team uses color coding religiously.
Off the top of my head it's something like: Blue for primary network, green for the secondary (for the teamed networks) Orange for backup Red for rILO They also label all connections, both ends. They are not so concerned with what the system name is, as switch/port it is connected to. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > > What are your preferences? Cable color by rack, system, type, etc? > It's > > just aesthetics but I'm looking for ideas. > > If you want it to look pretty, use the same color for each > rack/switch. Otherwise that's more confusing than helpful. > > Categorizing by VLAN or type of traffic makes some sense. E.g., > yellow is DMZ, blue is main LAN, green is SAN, etc. > > Using a rainbow spread to each rack makes some sense. Makes it > easier to tell cables apart when you're hunting for or tracing a > particular cable. > > There are some standards for cable sheath color coding, but the ones > I'm aware of are all facility-wide in scope. Most of your > in-datacenter cabling would be the same color under such schemes. So > I wouldn't call those helpful for this. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
