Have you considered RFID/NFC tagged UTP cables? there are several systems for this for Fibre now, so assume that there are UTP based ones aslo.

Colour coding is also an option, I tend to colour code where I don't need 1-1 port mappings (i.e Green Cables go to GREEN tagged ports on the switches). This is only good if you are deploying a crap load of servers where the ports are consistent (i.e Port2 on each blade is GREEN).

You can also use coloured plastic Crimped rings around the cables.Using cable ties to secure them http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/1188426975/Military_Grade_Network_Cable_Identification_Tags.html

My experiences have been similar to yours; lately I have just been designing as per my Coloured/Standard mapping - but as mentioned requires your Layer2 is flexible and standardized in the rack.

On 7 November 2013 10:52, Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net> wrote:

I've got a project underway with a large amount of fresh-install ethernet cabling and i'd like to 'do it right' with respects to cable labelling.

The old does-everything Dymo Label Printer is doable, for a while, but in datacentre environments the labels degrade and fall off eventually, which isn't ideal.

I've also used 'kabelflags' before but I would prefer something I can print with a machine, I think.

That said i'd be interested in what people are doing, or what they 'should' be doing... ?

Cheers
Mark.

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