I'm not sure how common it is, but I met a guy who uses a CD drive to identify the unit he is searching for. Pops them out remotely. Of course it is applicable only if your servers have CD drives, but it's hell of a lot easier than spotting LED patterns.
I rarely comment about site design, but this is illegible on mobile screens and it's an interesting story so worth sharing. Just setting the width of the main content to ~65em would make it legible upon element zoom for a lot of devices.