Horizontal Cabling Management?

Hi everyone,

I am a syadmin at a large multifunctional stadium with a network of around 2500 wall jacks spread throughout 50 racks in different locations on the campus. We redid the whole network a couple years ago using a traditional CDA model, monomode fiber all over the place for vertical cabling, etc. In the process we have used Racktables with the Link Management extension for keeping track of the fiber cabling, and it has done a fantastic job for us.

Our current struggle in maintaining the network is with the horizontal cabling. We are constantly expanding our network to include new wall jacks in many places, and we have been through many projects where entire office sections have been demolished to build new ones. Keeping track of all these changes is not impossible, but difficult. We used to have a consultant which would get us floorplans from the construction department, annotate the plans in Visio with the wall outlets using proper labeling (all the cables and wall jacks have the proper riser and cable ID labeled on them) and export them to PDF for us to browse. We also used to have an Excel spreadsheet accompanying the floorplans but we lost control of it over time.

Has anyone here been in a similar scenario, and if so, what tools or procedures did you put in place to keep control over the constant changes happening on the horizontal cabling? I've done much research on Google these past few years for something of a database system that ties wall jacks, risers and floorplans together, and it seems like it is a niche market with absurdly expensive products. So far it looks like developing an in-house solution is the best option for us.

Thanks in advance!