Computer Names - Page 2

MovedGoalPosts · 22-09-2011, 11:05

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Originally Posted by gazzae

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.

The name I choose will need to sort of correlate with it's intended department location, so for example the bookkeepers machines would all have to have a B as the start of their name. Servers would begin with A, simply so they are at the top of the list when someone is browsing the network. In my previous bird name convention that means blackbird, albatross, etc. But with only 20 machines to worry about I don't need to be much more precise than than. In any case I do have the computer description bit I can add to the machine's properties.

tweetiepooh · 22-09-2011, 11:06

Use of standardised names when the location and function is fixed and directly linked to what that machine is for so a switch in Dundee may be called dundee1 but where a server could move location or function it is "better" to give the server a silly name and alias function/location.

Some companies don't like humour and/or have such huge estates that they really rely on formal naming systems, especially if there is any automation that may "construct" names to perform tasks but again an alias would solve the latter issue.

The OP though has a small estate so more "friendly" names could be easier than a standardised scheme.

MovedGoalPosts · 22-09-2011, 11:17

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Originally Posted by Paul M

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

That could be a good idea - I like the idea of being able to tell users they are literally on another planet

gazzae · 22-09-2011, 11:25

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

Use of standardised names when the location and function is fixed and directly linked to what that machine is for so a switch in Dundee may be called dundee1 but where a server could move location or function it is "better" to give the server a silly name and alias function/location.

Some companies don't like humour and/or have such huge estates that they really rely on formal naming systems, especially if there is any automation that may "construct" names to perform tasks but again an alias would solve the latter issue.

The OP though has a small estate so more "friendly" names could be easier than a standardised scheme.

Well yes there is no fixed method, it is what works best for each company. The less devices and fewer people managing/creating said devices the less important naming structure is, as these increase the benefits of a standardised naming structuire also increase.

We have centralised datacentres so don't have an issue with servers moving location plus servers don't change function if a server is no longer required it will be archived off (the benefits of being virtualised).

Yes you can assign an alias, but if you looking in logs etc you will see the "silly" name and then have to do a lookup to find out information about that server unless you have knowledge of what that name correlates to.

swoop101 · 22-09-2011, 11:39

You can get some great names from local areas and villages.
Near Plymouth is a good example:
Mutley
Peverell
Coxside
Mannamead
Efford

to name a few

denphone · 22-09-2011, 11:41

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Originally Posted by swoop101

You can get some great names from local areas and villages.
Near Plymouth is a good example:
Mutley
Peverell
Coxside
Mannamead
Efford

to name a few

Yes l agree as l know all these places.

Tezcatlipoca · 22-09-2011, 12:17

I use names from mythology.

Stephen · 22-09-2011, 12:35

Names of Beers and Ales :-)

Bishops Finger lol

MovedGoalPosts · 22-09-2011, 12:41

We probably have enough alcoholics in our office without giving further encouragement

Pauls9 · 22-09-2011, 13:21

Our servers are named after planets, with attached printers named after - well, it started as trees so you got "Beech on Earth" but quickly wandered off, so we've got "Carrot on Pluto".

Perhaps I shouldn't think too deeply about it.

MovedGoalPosts · 22-09-2011, 14:54

I've never heard of a carrot tree. Or was the user a red head

cookie_365 · 22-09-2011, 17:56

Use Dickens characters, broadly relating to the office functions but only recognisable to those who've read the novels. You can see how long it takes the payroll people to complain about logging on to Littimer

Anonymouse · 22-09-2011, 17:58

At Bolton Institute (now University), the minicomputers in the VAX/VMS cluster were named after Fawlty Towers characters, so we had Basil (VAX-11/750), Sybil (ditto), Major (MicroVAX 3000), Manuel (ditto), and even Polly (PDP-11). Later they got a DEC Alpha, which they named Spock owing to its immense computing power.

And then they began putting in NT4-based PCs. Don't even get me started...

Halcyon · 22-09-2011, 18:01

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Originally Posted by Rob

That could be a good idea - I like the idea of being able to tell users they are literally on another planet

But would you really want to connect to Uranus?

MovedGoalPosts · 22-09-2011, 19:12

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Originally Posted by cookie_365

Use Dickens characters, broadly relating to the office functions but only recognisable to those who've read the novels. You can see how long it takes the payroll people to complain about logging on to Littimer

I'd have to read the novels too before I could start down that route. Although it might not be best to name the boss's computer "Scrooge"

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Originally Posted by Halcyon

But would you really want to connect to Uranus?

I'm beginning to think more along the lines of Star Wars Planets. After all most of our people create so many works of fiction that they try and back up with out of this world space age scientific arguments.