What do you guys use for your server naming scheme?

[uhohs]

i use morning musume/hello project members

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: uhohs
i use morning musume/hello project members

urgh


you are no longer allowed to post in server-naming threads:frown:

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
3 chars - city
3 digits - building code
2 digits - server/desktop/laptop
3 digits - function code
4 digits - unique ID for that building location

We were going to go with something like this.. However we didn't want to have to a have a server name lookup guide to figure out what a server did based on it's name. Although.. Sometimes I wish we did. Here is what we came up with:

z = puts at end of lists.
alpha = a single character to represent the company who the server originated from. We buy a lot of companies
alpha = a single character to represent the datacenter the server is in.
X - XXXXXXXXXX = up to 10 character description
2 character number code for clusters or anything else. Most are 01.


So you get something like.... ZPHEXCH01

A server for Pepsi in Houston that runs Exchange and it is the first in the cluster.

 

[Juno]

i name all of my computers after greek gods.

 

[skyking]

I look at a local map and name them after the small disappearing towns prevalent around the country.

 

[jjones]

serial killers

 

[ppdes]

single letters...quicker to type that way

 

[Shadowknight]

I try to use malevolent AI names
Primary computer= Master-Control
Laptop= SHODAN (reference to SHODAN becoming "free roaming" at the end of the second game.)
"Backup" computer - Skynet
I haven't had my other, slower computers up in forever, but I used the sam schema for naming them as the above

ETA: I stick with "mainframe" style AI's, instead of ones with real bodies like a robot (Ultron, SYD from the Russell Crow movie, the gunslinger from Westworld... you get the idea.)

 

[wiredspider]

transformers
birds
authors
presidents
greek gods
states

hmm, probably said to much....

 

[palswim]

American Gladiators

 

[Chaotic42]

I use the processor.

A64-3700
AMP-2800
C2D-6600

 

[liquidblue]

Well, I never named servers, but I did my drives or partitions names of enemies from the Streets of Rage 2 game for the Genesis. The robots towards the end of the levels had scientific names like: Particle, Molecule, Uranium, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, etc. Or you could go with Star Trek names. Which ever is nerdier.

 

[alkemyst]

Servers:
SSCCCFUNC#

SS = 2 letter state
CCC = 3 letter city
FUNC=3 or 4 letter function (FS, PS, INT, CRED, etc)
# = 1 or 2 digit count

All servers have 10 chars.

clients
AAA-X##-######

AAA = 3 char group name

X = D for desktop, L for laptop, etc
## = dept
###### = unique 6 digit machine number.

 

[Corbett]

All of my servers are named dxserver.

Of course, they are all on seperate networks in seperate offices.

 

[LS20]

roman emperors

 

[potato28]

Boggy 1, Swampy 2, Smelly 3, Stinky 4. I use South Park characters and sometimes characters from good movies...

 

[Evadman]

latitude to 8 decimals, longitude to 8 decimals, and the number of feet from ground level. Fricking PITA to maintain.

Personal is Evadlappy01 to evadlappy04 for laptops and desktops are usually something about them. Like Yellow and Green for 2, as they are in yellow and green cases. My NAS is NAS01. My file server (which doesn't do a whole lot now) is called fileserver.

 

[Zugzwang152]

at home i use the abbreviated OS name. for instance, winvista is my main desktop, winvista2 is my laptop. winxp is my old desktop, winxp2 is my old laptop. There's also a tiger, and there used to be a deb.

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: uhohs
i use morning musume/hello project members

urgh


you are no longer allowed to post in server-naming threads:frown:

🙁

 

[AStar617]

South Park was the late nineties scheme. "Stan" and "Kyle" were the workstations, "Kenny" was the broke down box that was barely ever complete, and "Cartman" was a chunky dual-proc PPro server.

Currently... "shogun", "daimyo", "samurai", "ronin"... with "ninja" being spec'd.

 

[ta8689]

Originally posted by: zeruty
for all pc's at my parents house when I lived there, I used psychologist names. I had rorschach (still the name of my desktop), maslow(living room computer), jung(my laptop), etc...
Not obvious ones like freud, but still ones who are well-known for some theory or method they developed.
I started that after I took psychology in high school... and of course only I knew what name went to which computer, as there was no method to the madness.

Madness? THIS IS SPAR... nevermind.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: AStar617
South Park was the late nineties scheme. "Stan" and "Kyle" were the workstations, "Kenny" was the broke down box that was barely ever complete, and "Cartman" was a chunky dual-proc PPro server.

Currently... "shogun", "daimyo", "samurai", "ronin"... with "ninja" being spec'd.

hey that's what I have!

 

[Rogodin2]

I use dog breeds.

Rogo

 

[Uhtrinity]

Arc_Server_2003, Lib_Server, workstations are boring like K, 1st, 2nd ..., Lib_1, Lib_2, Lab_1, Lab_2, Span_1, etc. This of course is for a school with about 70 pcs.