What are good server naming conventions?

[IcemanJer]

our CS department uses local mountain peaks.
we're in the New England upper valley area... there are A LOT of small peaks everywhere.

 

[Kadarin]

Internal organs:

spleen
colon
pancreas
large-intestine
appendix
left testicle
right testicle
etc.. you get the idea

 

[FrustratedUser]

Sexual positions.

Missionary, doggystyle, spoon, 69 and so on.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Sexual positions.

Missionary, doggystyle, spoon, 69 and so on.

I already suggested that one, but I wasn't going to post it.



Viper GTS

 

[ViRGE]

We use wines for filesevers:

Merlot
Pinot
Riesling
Vineyard(we couldn't think of another wine that could be spelt easily)

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Sexual positions.

Missionary, doggystyle, spoon, 69 and so on.

I already suggested that one, but I wasn't going to post it.



Viper GTS

Someone denied you to use these names?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Beer brands is good. Used where I work, sorry!

 

[PsychoAndy]

I've got it. Use the three stooges. If that dosent appeal to you, use....obscure movie/seinfeld refrences.

Boomstick
Moron #1
Moron #2
The Eraser
Vandelay
Latex

I have no clue what the hell i'm talking about.

-PAB

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Sexual positions.

Missionary, doggystyle, spoon, 69 and so on.

I already suggested that one, but I wasn't going to post it.



Viper GTS

Someone denied you to use these names?

Yes, I said clever, but not on my servers...

-Spy

 

[spyordie007]

I might go with XMen villains, google got me a good list to work with quick enough:
MAGNETO
MR. SINISTER
APOCALYPSE
STRYFE
JUGGERNAUT
MYTIQUE
SENTINALS
SABRETOOTH
OMEGA RED
BLACK TOM
MASTERMIND
DEATHBIRD
BROOD
MOJO
SHADOW KING
ONSLAUGHT
PROTEUS
MLF
ACOLYTES

 

[vi edit]

We had some interesting ones floating around our inhouse LAN while in college.

One scheme was male member references
- jimmy
- penis
- willy
- wang
- dinkus
- johnson
- schlong

 

[oboeguy]

Have you thought about composer names? For example, Mozart, Bach and Haydn? The problem there is when you start to run out and have to rely on names like Buxtehude.

My department uses another cool convention, naming the machines after mathematicians. For example, Laplace, Hilbert, and Markov. The printers have their own convention which I'm not sure I get, but the cleverset of the printer names is Guttenberg.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: IcemanJer
our CS department uses local mountain peaks.
we're in the New England upper valley area... there are A LOT of small peaks everywhere.

That's what we do for our lab.

Either Ski Resorts (local/non-local) or large mountains.

The main IS Department uses Greek Gods....how cliche.

amish

 

[MysticLlama]

I can't believe this one wasn't brought up.

I use Looney Tunes at work.

Two reasons, 1.) There are a lot more than I will probably have servers and 2.) Each name somehow relates to something so I can easily remember what one to go to.

Example...

Daffy - My Workstation
Bosko - The old enterprise software server
Porky - One of the database servers
Foghorn / Leghorn - Two test servers

etc. etc.

I also use Bugs, Marvin, Elmer, and Sylvester; Tweety and Roadrunner are in the works.

(Didn't want to give away all of the layout of course )

 

[Narse]

we use a boring yet functional convention, we use state, city, dept, workstation or server and 2 digit number. IE GAATLRACS01

 

[mpitts]

I use beatles records..

 

[PsychoAndy]

I've got it. The 7 (or is it 8) dwarves?

Dopey
Sneezy

I give up. I've had a deprived childhood.

-PAB

 

[AU Tiger]

Lots of good ideas here. How about military generals?

Stonewall
Lee
Grant
Patton

 

[MysticLlama]

I used the 7 dwarves convention when I worked at Microsoft.

I had 8 machines total. It went something like this if I remember right:

Snow White - Main E-Mail / Office box
Happy - The one that had games on it.
Doc - The debugger machine
Sneezy - Virus Scanner test box
Dopey - The Cyrix box
Grumpy - Stress test box
Bashful - DEC Alpha test box (different from the rest)
Sleepy - Can't remember, I didn't use him much, that's why he was sleepy.

 

[Descartes]

Have you thought about composer names? For example, Mozart, Bach and Haydn?

That's what we've done. We have Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, etc.

We also have some named after philosophers: Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Descartes, etc...

We have others named after astronomers/cosmologists/scientists: Hubble, Einstein, Hawking, etc...

 

[Stark]

adding servers (plural) to your apartment? what the heck are you doing in an apartment that requires adding multiple servers?

 

[Vinny N]

Stargate races?

Abydonians
Tokra
Goauld
Nox
Asgard
Tauri
Jaffa
Ancients
Tollan

 

[Daniel]

Originally posted by: Jzero
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[BigJohnKC]

I copied my school's naming schema and I now name all my new computers after Biblical characters. I named my old box Job since he was constantly tormented but remained faithful I'm sure you can find an appropriate name for new servers with a little Bible research.

 

[Scootin159]

I've got mine all named after simpson characters, with servers being more major names (Homer, Bart, ect.) and clients more obscure characters (Ralph, ect.)