Guided cable management

A method, comprising:

• detecting a first end of a cable installed at a port of a first node, the first end of the cable storing metadata for the cable;
• determining whether the cable that is installed at the port of the first node is an expected cable for the port of the first node based on a cable mapping table, the cable metadata used to reference the cable mapping table;
• triggering, in response to determining the cable is the expected cable at the port of the first node, a visual indicator at the port of the first node to visually confirm that the cable is the expected cable for the port of the first node;
• determining a port of a second node where a second end of the cable is expected to be installed based on the cable mapping table;
• and
• triggering a visual indicator at the port of the second node to visually indicate that the second end of the cable is expected to be installed in the port of the second node.

A computer program product for guided cable management, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

• detect, by processor, a first end of a cable installed at a port of a first node, the first end of the cable storing metadata for the cable;
• determine, by processor, whether the cable that is installed at the port of the first node is an expected cable for the port of the first node based on a cable mapping table, the cable metadata used to reference the cable mapping table;
• trigger, by processor and in response to determining the cable is the expected cable at the port of the first node, a visual indicator at the port of the first node to visually confirm that the cable is the expected cable for the port of the first node;
• determine, by processor, a port of a second node where a second end of the cable is expected to be installed based on the cable mapping table;
• and
• trigger, by processor, a visual indicator at the port of the second node to visually indicate that the second end of the cable is expected to be installed in the port of the second node.