[AusNOG] How do you label?

[Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm]

We are thinking of getting one or two of the Brady ID Pal labellers, 
where are people buying these in Australia?

Also, what labels would you recommend for labelling 
switches/routers/servers, copper, and fibre?

I've had a look through the Brady website, however its hard to see which 
of the label options are best suited!

Aaron


On 18/04/2010 4:06 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> Michael,
> We use Brady labellers - expensive but they do a really good wire wrap label.  (wire wrap is where it prints out a label you can wrap around a cable nicely).
>
> Specifically we use: http://www.bradyid.com/idpal
>
> The labels stick like you want.  The labeller is reasonable to use and you can get them fixed (we've had ours fixed a number of times - I think we own about a dozen so no one ever has an excuse to NOT label something).  We treat our labellers fairly hard - they travel interstate/overseas a LOT plus we have ones in our datacentres.    We've looked at other options etc.  But we never seem to have replaced these with any other things - even though these are pretty pricey for both the equipment and the labels compared to basic p-touch stuff.
>
> If you're more static than us (ie.  you're always in one location) then there are other options which have USB etc from other people.  But they were never practical for us.
>
> MMC
>
>
> On 18/04/2010, at 11:19 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
>> Hi!
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>> I've always come to this list when I've been stuck on network design concepts, and the results have always remarkable! I'd like to impose upon you all once again with a relatively simple but not unimportant question: what do you use for labeling your network gear?
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>> To date, I've been happy enough with using the basic labels you put in a P-touch or whatever. Of course, you couldn't count on them for long as the glue would go in the heat at a back of a rack, but they were an acceptable solution to a problem I didn't really care about at the time. As our business grows, I feel it's time to make sure the foundation is right by labeling everything really, really well.
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>> I think I'm okay in terms of nomenclature for labeling gear like network cables etc, but where I'm stuck is: where can I get labels with good glue that sticks indefinitely, and also can print lots of little labels at the same time?
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>> Thanks once again for your time and any insight you can offer!
>>
>> Mike
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