When I ran a private ISP, we had a label maker and labeled both ends of every cable and cord. We named every server/hardware component so we also named the cable on both ends to match. At 4 am when a server went down this was a welcome convenience Bill On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I feel like my reply was unnecessarily brief, apologies. Although there are no official standards,It’s good to have an internal standard for color coding cables. We made it part of our SOP‘s and made surge Operations staff was informed.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Can confirm, no.
On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM Patrick Finnegan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
No.
Patrick Finnegan
On Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 19:17 Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
When a server or switch has two power supplies, is there a color coding standard for line cords and equipment denoting the "A" power PDU and the "B" power PDU?
Normally would use use red and blue power cables, however looking for an EIA or TIA document confirming this.
Cheers!
Martin