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Many years ago, I started an ISP. I labelled every cable on both ends. My more technical partner came in one day and started ripping off the labels. His reasoning? "They're going to be eventually incorrect so let's just rip off the labels now and trace the connections every time."

It took a while but eventually we went our separate ways.

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I feel obligated to say this, even though it should be extremely obvious :

As a manager of data center technicians, I would fire someone on the spot for this behavior. It is unconscionably stupid and entirely unprofessional and unproductive.

Technically the way to fix that problem is to label cable with cable ID then track "which cable connects what" in IPAM.

But then having to look up each cable is a bit of PITA

what works really well is building a system that generated a QR code with URL embedded in it for the trace of the cable ID. (netbox can do this, not sure about other IPAM solutions).

then all your DC techs have to do is scan a qr, and boom, cable trace is visible.

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