[tech] Minutes of Wheel/Tech Meeting 2014-05-09

[Alex Dawson]

On 9 May 2014, at 5:20 am, matches at ucc.asn.au wrote:

> - Neatening up the Machine room - Making cables easier to trace

As started in Arts, and continued in my Professional Services Goon career:

- get a label printer
- print out two copies of labels with a unique identifier
- apply to each end of cable
- there is no step 4*

(Ok, step 4 - for unique identifiers, UCC001, UCC002 etc. Print in large batches, or keep track of last label printed on whiteboard near label printer. If you lose track, add another digit at the beginning)

If you need to trace a cable, find the end you know, take a guess where the other end is, look for that number. If you want to map everything, make a record of each port/identifier mapping pair, insert into SQL, then do a JOIN on the identifier. Or use a Perl script, whatever.

For label printers, the Brother PT2730 is nice, or you can buy sheets of self laminating cable labels, like these - http://www.eql.com.au/sharpmark.htm