Whats your server naming convention?

[Train]

I was just wondering how some offices name thier servers? I noticed today that my hosts servers are all named after Ivy League Colleges (Stanford, Brown, etc). At a company i worked for a few years ago, all our servers were named after Roller Coasters at Cedar Point (Gemini was the mail server,Magnum was the DB, Raptor was a file server, etc) Aguy i worked for in Detroit had his named after detroit teams (Lion, Piston, Tiger and RedWing)

Any others?

 

[GeekDrew]

By duty.

Building Initials, Server Type, Class #

For example:

Building: FCC
Server Type: PXE/TFTP Boot Server
Server Number within Type (PXE/TFTP Boot) Pool: 01
Leaves you with: FCCPXE01

 

[jw791]

Yeah, naming servers after cartoon characters, schools, athletic teams is stupid.

They should incorporate the location/building and function of the server.

Like VAB1MAIL01 or something like that.

 

[Train]

you guys are so boring

 

[geckojohn]

We name our's after the last name of the ceo and then the principles of the company.

 

[flood]

Server Farm ->
Potato, Banana....

 

[TallBill]

lol, my office had.. "the server" and thats it

 

[conjur]

CIO at one client named the servers after characters/objects from The Hundred Acre Wood.

There was POOH, TIGGER, KANGA, RABBIT, EEYORE, etc.

My fleet of servers (before I unloaded them) were major literary figures and the domain was works.lit. So, I had shakespeare.works.lit, homer.works.lit, chaucer.works.lit, etc.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Jenna, Jeanine, Jennifer, Jenna, Jenny, Jewel, Jessica, Jill, Joanna, Jodi, Joel, July, Julia..... if you get my drift

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: TallBill
lol, my office had.. "the server" and thats it

LMAO!!

by duty, and a fake "PDC" on the dmz to track the wannabe hackers

 

[djheater]

My firm names them after Simpsons characters.

The company I consult at names them

<duty>-<location>-<domain>

So exc1-ak-nnnn where n=domain

 

[WannaFly]

Originally posted by: jw791
Yeah, naming servers after cartoon characters, schools, athletic teams is stupid.

They should incorporate the location/building and function of the server.

Like VAB1MAIL01 or something like that.

Unless your working with 100's of servers, i disagree.

Servers should not be labeled by their function, its a security risk.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: WannaFly


Unless your working with 100's of servers, i disagree.

Servers should not be labeled by their function, its a security risk.

Pfff, what's wrong with honeypot.supercompany.net?

 

[PrinceofWands]

Mythology, or astrology or similar conventions.

Firewall= Cerberus
Mail= Hermes
Backup= Gemini
segments would be Olympus for the server cluster or DMZ, Athens for exec's, etc.


Of course, we've only worked on small companies, personal LAN's, that kind of stuff...no doubt a major corp wouldn't let us get away with that.

 

[thedarkwolf]

People here are real dorks so they are named after Characters from Lord of the Rings. I can't remember their names though .

 

[J3anyus]

My machines are named after characters in Squaresoft video games...

Jenova, Magus, Bahamut, etc.

 

[trmiv]

At work we have our servers named after people on Iron Chef. Morimoto, Fukui-San, Chin-Kenichi, Sakai, etc.

 

[GhettoFob]

I name my home LAN computer after rappers.

 

[Swag1138]

Transformers stuff.

Allspark, Iacon, Nemesis1, Decepticon, etc.....

 

[amnesiac]

My friend and his roommate had like 6 machines in their apartment. Named after planets (Venus, mercury, etc..).

The file server was Uranus. :Q

 

[SaigonK]

We name all of our servers by location - OS - function

So if i had a new Citrix Secure gateway server i would name it as follows:

HQ (headquarters)
2K (OS)
CSG (Citrix secure gateway)

For an end result of: HQ2KCSG

Since we have over 140 Windows servers and over 130 Netware servers, it gets to be fun figuring out new names for similarly named functions

 

[rgwalt]

Back at school, our machines in the chemE computer cluster were named after elements. The machines in the design lab were named after semi-precious stones.

Ryan

 

[brunswickite]

my school Rutgers is weird

cereal.rutgers.edu

 

[Czar]

by the elements
helium, argon and so forth

or like at home, the first name that pops into my head

 

[BMdoobieW]

I name mine after the characters of Scooby-Doo.