Cables: to label or not to label....that is the flamewar

[Dave]

We're having an, ahem, "discussion" with an internal customer (lab user) 
over whether or not my group (sysadmins) should be labeling patch cables 
in her (software QA) lab.  We've found that as often as not, the users 
of these very loosely-controlled software development and QA labs move 
any cables we've labeled to other equipment without re-labeling, and 
it sends us (and them) on wild goose chases when troubleshooting.

We've proposed a compromise of putting a unique cable serial number 
on both ends of each (new) patch cable.

What do y'all do w.r.t. labeling in uncontrolled lab areas?  (What do 
you do in access-controlled datacenters, for that matter?)

thanks....

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