200 IBM TotalStorage: SAN Product, Design, and Optimization Guide
4.2.3 Cabinets
SAN fabric cabinets should be labelled to adhere to the local site standards.
4.2.4 Trunk cables
Trunk cables usually have their own serial numbers, and those numbers need to
be included in the inventory list of your SAN fabric. However, for daily usage it is
good practice to create a naming scheme where trunk cables are labelled based
on the CPL position where they are connected.
For example, if you have a trunk cable that is ending in column K of the 2nd FTS
panel-mount box from the bottom of cabinet labelled 6C, the trunk cable label
would be 6C_2_K, and the names of channels within the trunk cable would be in
the form 6C_2_K_xx, where xx is the number of the coupler ...