[AusNOG] How do you label?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

Aaron,
I'd try and buy a few of the options.   We appear to use the white 19mm wide ones.  But, it's very specific to your needs and what you need to use labels for.

We have a consistent device naming scheme and network architecture - so labels make sense with less information as you pretty much know what must be going where.  The exceptions just have as much detail as can fit. 

The critical labels usually are ones which go inter-site, are a xconnect to a supplier or to anywhere you can't easily trace the other end of (ie. across fibre ducts between racks etc).  

MMC

On 14/04/2011, at 9:17 AM, Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm wrote:

> 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!
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> Thanks once again for your time and any insight you can offer!
>>> 
>>>