[149884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time sink 42
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Irvine)
Thu Feb 16 16:52:11 2012
In-Reply-To: <op.v9sjc5y8tfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:51:15 -0800
From: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:18:42 -0500, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>>
>> If they are Dell servers, you could always name each host in their BIOS =
so
>> it shows up on the display of the host.
>
>
> I did that with a batch of sun v20z's... when they got to the colo, no on=
e
> knew which was which until they're powered and the service processor is
> fully booted. (a process that takes several minutes) By then, they've bee=
n
> racked in the wrong racks and in the wrong order. :-( =A0Of course, I've =
done
> that to myself as well... pull a stack of machines and forget what order
> they were in :-)
And watch for the removable faceplates. We've been bitten before
after a server move by rebooting a server that had the correct label
but the wrong faceplate. Now we label the faceplate as well as
underneath of it too. :-)
-B
