Proper, clean cable management (howto)
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Posted by forrie on May 18, 2007, 11:47 am
Please log in for more thread options I'm looking for some reference about how to do cable management "right". In all my years as a sysadmin, I never really figured this out. And I've an opportunity now to build out a new lab *and* clean up the rats nest cable job in our old lab ;-) Should be a joy ride. I've been looking all over the place, and haven't found much except products for sale, etc. One product for switches I liked is called NEATPATCH. My labs consist of switches and several servers - nothing out of the ordinary (racks, etc). I'd appreciate it if anyone had some pointers or perhaps pointers to online reference (or books, even). Thanks in advance. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by John Dulak on May 18, 2007, 12:46 pm
Please log in for more thread options forrie wrote: Forrie: Perhaps these will help. http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/02/cable_management_done_right.html http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2348-10879_11-5896894-1.html John -- \||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - Gnomeway Services - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Al Dykes on May 18, 2007, 1:26 pm
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>forrie wrote:
>> I'm looking for some reference about how to do cable management
>> "right". >> >> In all my years as a sysadmin, I never really figured this out. And >> I've an opportunity now to build out a new lab *and* clean up the rats >> nest cable job in our old lab ;-) Should be a joy ride. >> >> I've been looking all over the place, and haven't found much except >> products for sale, etc. One product for switches I liked is called >> NEATPATCH. >> >> My labs consist of switches and several servers - nothing out of the >> ordinary (racks, etc). >> >> I'd appreciate it if anyone had some pointers or perhaps pointers to >> online reference (or books, even). >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >
>Forrie: > >Perhaps these will help. > >http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/02/cable_management_done_right.html > >http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2348-10879_11-5896894-1.html > Good links. I wish I had taken picture of the good and bad cabling I've come across, and done. Some thoughts; Buy a bunch of 1ft, 3ft, and 3ft patch cords. cableguys.com is good and cheap. (no relationship, etc) Use this stuff as needed to span rows of racks or to get from the rack row to the wall. http://www.flextray.com/ For all the little cigar-box sized electronic boxes, I bought a desk organizer like this and put it in on a shelf in a rack; http://www.buyingpartners.com/product.php/item/MMF-2645BLA/MMF2645BLA.html Never stack anyting on anything else. You should always be able to move/remove any piece of equipment without disturbing anything else. Give power distribution and cabling as much thought as the data. If you are anal as i am, you can get NEMA cables in 2ft and 3ft lengths. They are cheap. Newark Electronics (newark.com) sells short cables and the sell over the phone and always took my small ($100) orders. They *used to* send a huge catalog out to anyone that asked. Keep an assortment of old NEMA cords, sorted by length. Wiremold makes rack-mounted power strips (p/n J06BOB20X-AM & others. They are annoyingly expensive, but there is a value to neatness. Look at "power sticks" p/n 4810ULBC and others. Home Depot has them. CabinetMATE Plug-In Outlet 4810ULBD Center - Ten outlets. 6' [1.8m] or 15' [4.6m] cord. Length 48" [1.2m]. Receptacle center-tocenter 4" [102mm]. I put two on each rack. One was masrked with red tape and plugged into the UPS and the other was just house power. Each piece of gear that needed UPS had red electrical tape around both ends of the NEMA cord. Here's the WireMold catalog; http://www.wiremold.com/shared_content/pdf/ed795.pdf In the last place I built a computer room, I layed out a row of 7ft racks (about 8 rack widths). I needed new power circuits pulled from the panel, I had a 2x6 wood beam hung from the ceiling, the length of the row, above it. [*] Then I had the electrician run receptical boxes every couple ft on one side of the beam and cable mgmt loops on the other side. Neat. Cheap. [*] Today I would probably use the metal equivilant of a wood beam. -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. A Proud signature since 2001 | |||||||||||||
> "right".
>
> In all my years as a sysadmin, I never really figured this out. And
> I've an opportunity now to build out a new lab *and* clean up the rats
> nest cable job in our old lab ;-) Should be a joy ride.
>
> I've been looking all over the place, and haven't found much except
> products for sale, etc. One product for switches I liked is called
> NEATPATCH.
>
> My labs consist of switches and several servers - nothing out of the
> ordinary (racks, etc).
>
> I'd appreciate it if anyone had some pointers or perhaps pointers to
> online reference (or books, even).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>