The lost art of Server Naming

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jourdant

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#389126 7-Oct-2010 12:09

wreck90: waikato university used to name their servers after disney characters.

Donald/pluto etc.

Wonder if they still do so.

I haven't seen any disney characters anywhere but I've seen plenty of capital cities in the SCMS department. Ie Oslo (Norway), Stockholm (Sweden).

Oh and there are some others like voodoo and priest around the place...

Zeon

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#389131 7-Oct-2010 12:20

Yea the capital cities idea seems to be popular. The boss loved it until I asked why we are calling the server in Sydney, Seattle

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jpolapop

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#389236 7-Oct-2010 15:39

tchart:
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Drum roll, for year 2000 testing! ie Wai-tu-ke = Y-2-K

LOL

Have used for various organisations:
Maori names for birds, trees, etc
Lord of the Ring Characters
Asterix Characters
Planets

I recall a complaint from a staff member (who loved using profanity btw) who said the LOTR names were boring. I retorted that if they were in charge I doubt if the business would tolerate its servers being named after profane words.

nzkiwiman

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#389258 7-Oct-2010 16:31

Pretty boring here at work

sidkumar

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#389269 7-Oct-2010 17:11

Have seen quite a few start trek names in previous orgs... and disney too. It becomes difficult not to follow a cryptic convention when working with a large server farm in a large enterprise. It is boring but if done correctly, it can bring some order.

I agree that for external facing devices having names which do not reveal anything is a good idea.

Cheers
Sid

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#390132 10-Oct-2010 12:47

Main part of my home network uses elements from the periodic table which are mapped to IP address eg Sodium is x.x.x.11. This makes it very easy to work out the IP address. Upper range of IP addresses, where there are no elements (yet), is for non-allocated equipment assigned by DHCP as needed, eg phones, visiting friends etc. Exception would be my wife's laptop which she named, and is also assigned it's IP address from the DHCP server. Other subnets use what ever makes sense, eg some of the virtual machines are called [Primary Host]-VM<OS><Task/Purpose>.

Last place of employment had a server called Jeeves when I started, when that was replaced I named it <ORG>Serv. Note, this was a small company which only had the one internal server running SBS which did everything. Other equipment was named after itself, eg printers, switches and firewalls I named <Manufacturer><Model><ID>. When I started PCs were named after the staff member who used it and were renamed when they changed. I was slowly changing this to naming them by the role, eg CEO, Accountant.

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