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Whats your server naming convention?

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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?
 
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

 
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.
 
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.
 
My firm names them after Simpsons characters.

The company I consult at names them

<duty>-<location>-<domain>

So exc1-ak-nnnn where n=domain
 
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.
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Unless your working with 100's of servers, i disagree.

Servers should not be labeled by their function, its a security risk.
 
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.
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Pfff, what's wrong with honeypot.supercompany.net?



 
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.
 
People here are real dorks so they are named after Characters from Lord of the Rings. I can't remember their names though 😉.
 
My friend and his roommate had like 6 machines in their apartment. Named after planets (Venus, mercury, etc..).

The file server was Uranus. :Q
 
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 🙂
 
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
 
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