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the room). This way, you can read the label once there are 50 or so other cables plugged into the same
switch or concentrator.
You really need to keep up with your labels when items change or are moved. Troubleshooting can take
much, much longer if you think you know which cable is correct but find out later that it’s not.
Let’s say you have a router that connects your earthbound headquarters with your company’s moon base.
If the router’s name is LOONIE, a good device label would be this:
LOONIE: Router for moon base, Lockheed Satellite transmitter
I’ve seen folks slap a label with an IP address on such a router; however, this is optional if you have good
functional documentation that clearly states that LOONIE has two IP addresses (say, 167.195.160.1 on
the earth side and 167.195.161.1 on the moon side). Still, as my grandmother would say, “It couldn’t
hurt.”
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