Spaghetti Cabling that would make a fully-grown sys admin cry, or… Cable management is for wimps.
Most network and system administrators like a nice tidy cabled cabinet of servers and network equipment.
Sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way.
The following are some of my favorite images of nasty cable messes.
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A Cable Mess of Beauty
photo by: Cormac Phelan
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Racks and Racks of Spaghetti
photo by: Andrew McKaskill
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Cable-Bound Racks
photo by: dM.nyc
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Good Old-Fashioned Telephone Wire Mess in Bangkok
photo by: Nurmi
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able Mess (un)Managed
photo by: gruzuk
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The Spaghetti Man on Sixth Avenue, NYC
photo by: Ken
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Spaghetti Cables on the CMS Tracker at CERN
photo by: Richard Brauer
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Colorful Cable Salad
photo by: Zenji
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A Fine Mess
photo by: BRphoto
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Cable Mess Frustration
photo by: Jonathan Arehart
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Rat’s Nest Cable Mess
photo by: n8foo
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Stage Cables get messed up too
photo by: Laura A Watt
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Cable Chaos
photo by: VespaGT
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LOPSA’s Sys Admin Horrors
LOPSA (League of Professional System Administrators) is a terrific organization that Vibrant wholeheartedly supports. Afterall, they sponsor National SysAdmin Appreciation Day. On their website, they came up with a terrific photo set of Sys Admin horrors including the cable messes below:
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DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THESE WIRES!
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Burnt Spaghetti
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Spaghetti Cable Hurl
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Network Cables or Silly String?
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Patriotic Cable Mess
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Network Floss and Modems(rumored to have run the dialup access at an old ISP)
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Updates:
Transformed: mrbill offers up before, during and after photos of a network mess gone straight
The Lab with Leo LaPorte staff offers a cable tangle photo from on the set with Cali.
A classic server rack mess: Tom Scholten shared the following photo of a server rack seemingly riddled with silly string.
The LAN and phone cables run across eachother (red cables are phone, blue are servers and white/yellow are client computers).
There are also 3 switches hidden in the picture. Enjoy!
