Computer Names
 

So I'm in the process of renewing our office's computer network of 20 or so PCs and server.

I could be boring and give computers a name of "accounts 1, accounts 2" and so on. No point in naming them after their prime users as these change too often.

More fun is to name them by another system. Previously I've used bird types i.e Vulture, Magpie ..... If you can tie the name of the computer to a user's personality it can cause a little amusement :D

Any thoughts on other naming systems I could use?

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I worked with a company that used famous composers. Or you could have artists ... DaVinci, Raphael, you get the picture. :D

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All the networks I've set up here and for family / friends / people are starships...

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When I was at University they used food for computer names such as tomato, leek.

They then got some upgraded computers and named them after kitchen items such as over, spoon, kettle, trivet.

The system administrator got two new computers and called one Riff and one Raff.

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Interesting. The more obscure the system, possibly the better. I've heard of someone naming their server farm after curries. I wonder if cocktails would send the wrong message?

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Rivers, lakes, lochs, mountains ... clans and tartans? Endless avenues to explore.

Trees ...
Fruit ...

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hmm, we have two bosses. I wonder if I'd still have a job if I called their laptops Riff and Raff :erm:

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I'm naming our university computers after internet cats at the moment, maru, nyancat, chundercats, etc. When I run out I'll be moving onto other "internet phenomena" like "imonaboat"

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Characters form a favourite book or series (match the characters to the staff) ;)

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I worked for a company and they had servers named after trees, but my favourite ones where the Page three girls (Sam Fox, was one of the servers)

Why not ask for opinon

Or stuff the lot and go for TV shows/film titles:D

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Doesn't seem very PC to me :D

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You could name them after the many steam engine names there were in the old days or after famous racehorses in which there are many different names as well.

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Shakespearian characters have a good range.

Non-UK place names and there are some really odd ones out there.

Get's a bit odd - "cockburn has lost connection to dingdong".

I've also used some lovely African names, polokwane, tshwane, belabela

(Names in lowercase because that's how we use them).

You can then alias function onto the name (CNAME in DNS) so
webserver -> cockburn -> IP

That way if you want to move the webserver to dingdong the only change in DNS needed is the CNAME.

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I named mine after planets (with a few taken from various sci-fi programmes).

I also had a some greek gods, and Simpsons characters.

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I much prefer standardised names - very boring I know but when there is over 100 servers and god knows how many client devices it is handy to know at first glance the location and function of a device.


Client devices
Division - ABC
Location in Division - DEF
Type of machine - wst (workstation) ldp (laptop) prt (printer) wbt (windows-based terminal)
Unique ID - 123
e.g ABCDEFWST123

Servers
Division - ABC
Type of server - DB (Database) exc (exchange) bes (blackberry enterprise)
Type of machine - SVR
Unique ID - 123
e.g ABCDBSVR001