Re: time sink 42

[Bryan Irvine <sparctacus () gmail com>]

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 one
> 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 been
> racked in the wrong racks and in the wrong order. :-(  Of 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