I cut the ends off of old patch cables before I throw them out. I leave 2-3 inches of cable attached to the connector. I then use these to mark ports that I don't want anyone to use. I just attach a label to the cable stub indicating the reason (broken, disabled, reserved, etc.).
-- Patrick Landry Director, UCSS On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:22 AM -0700, "Florian Heigl" <[email protected]> wrote:Hi, last weekend I did some rehaul at a customer site. They have a very old installation and it seems both the cabling and the wall outlets can be really picky. Now all on-site users should have working networking again, but in the course I’ve found quite a few broken ports and heard stories like “yeah they hooked my pc up to the one in the next room because here it didn’t work” - meaning that a number of ethernet ports / cables is just dead… I don’t want to “find” them again and again, so I wonder what you guys do to mark dead ports - in offices - at the patch panel - at the switch (if so) I’m also not sure if there’s a map of floor / room number to port number… Any hints for the survey? Thankful for all your experiences :) Florian _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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