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fLum0x

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taking all good ideas...

so far, i have thought types of cheese and beer would be okay. star wars, heman, that kind of stuff is already taken :)
 

MiniDoom

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for workstations, we use site code+property tag# of the computer+users initials. ie DC1234-RD
 

RightIsWrong

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Is this for servers or workstations? How many systems? Is the company a local company or do they have a presence in other cities, states, countries, etc?

Too vague of a question to give a response to that would be fitting or appropriate. But I'm sure that you are going to get some pretty funny ones regardless. :)
 

xSauronx

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naming work computers? you mean on the network?

name them by location and task or something, its a bitch to try and remember what name does what after you have more than a couple to keep track of, and anyone coming in to learn the system or help out will be totally lost because you named jimmys workstation on the 3rd floor "amber bock", the dhcp server "kilians red" and the AD box "kegger"

 

lozina

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Originally posted by: rdubbz420
for workstations, we use site code+property tag# of the computer+users initials. ie DC1234-RD

boring!!

who came up with that one- C3P0 or R2D2 ??
 

lokiju

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We just do first initial last name of user - Dell model.

For example.

Bob Smith with a Dell D630 would be bsmith-d630
 

MiniDoom

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Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
for workstations, we use site code+property tag# of the computer+users initials. ie DC1234-RD

boring!!

who came up with that one- C3P0 or R2D2 ??

I know, best business practices n shit is boring B.
 

vi edit

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Originally posted by: skace
Truncated Domain+Machine Type+Serial/Asset#

We do something similar.

It's region-machine type-asset#

so it's something like chi-mw-098547

Chicago-mobile workstation(laptop)-asset. Boring, but easy to remember with over 10,000 devices spread out over 6 different regions.
 

lozina

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how about using ATOT user names.

when you need financial advice you can just connect to the RossMAN server
 

rivan

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Originally posted by: lozina
how about using ATOT user names.

when you need financial advice you can just connect to the RossMAN server

:thumbsup:
 

BassBomb

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We had a small company so it was mostly by our own names.

I was "coop" since I was a coop student, another person was "zoomzoom" because they drove a mazda.

Our servers were always generic names like "Bob"; Bob was mostly because it would go down so often and we would love saying REBOOT!
 

Paperdoc

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Are you trying to be clear and obvious so anyone can find any machine? Systems like the DC-1234-RD? If so, I suggest two things:

1. Sequence of characters should be from general to specific. Like Site# - Tag#, as suggested first. That way when all names are sorted, it will make more sense and be easier to find one machine.

2. Don't bother with hyphens etc in the sequence. They are meaningless for any classification system, and useful only for people reading. Just as useful is a rigidly-defined format like AAAnnnn where AAA must be exactly three alphabetic characters, and nnnn must be 4 digits. Remember the old rule the phone companies discovered decades ago: people can remember character / number sequences of up to 7 characters, but have trouble beyond that. That is why we have phone numbers in North America like 987-6543.

Or, are you trying to be as non-structured as possible to keep prying people away? A collection of names with no rules at all makes it harder for an outsider to poke around, I suppose, but I doubt that would hamper a good hacker. But if that is your idea, make only VERY loose guidelines (e.g. no names of wives, dogs and kids) and then let each user create their own name. Hundreds of people are more randomly creative than two IT techs.
 

oddyager

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At work:

Workstations: Location tag-Type + ID (so NY-PC001, or LON-LT001)
Servers: We use City names

At home:

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why would you use a user name in a computer name? I never understood that....it's just one more thing you'd have to change eventually.
 

MiniDoom

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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
why would you use a user name in a computer name? I never understood that....it's just one more thing you'd have to change eventually.

I think most places don't just give a used computer to a new employee. Things like that should be re imaged to ensure personal or sensitive data is erased.
 

RandomFool

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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
why would you use a user name in a computer name? I never understood that....it's just one more thing you'd have to change eventually.

That way you can easily tell who "owns" computer. In theory computers should be wiped clean whenever someone new starts using them full time. In most of the places I've worked that doesn't happen though.

I use Muppets for all the computers in my family.
 

torpid

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Tag # is not a good idea, IMO. You want machine names that specify purpose and location only. With tag #s you have to change the machine name if you ever swap in a new machine, which is something that is likely to happen eventually.

Here we append a running sequence # at the end. If a machine gets swapped out, the # is still the same.