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need good names for servers
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: Santoro on March 30, 2005, 06:10:57 pm ---I am an IT Director for an outsourcer and I have seen it all at various accounts. Comic characters, Ancient Playwrights, Artists have all been used. Those are cute for home use, but don't inflict that on people at work.
We settled on something like this for one of my accounts that worked well:
NTS-NY-FIN-MAIL-01
NTS=NT Server (could be UNX, LNX, SOL, AIX, etc.)
NY=Location
Fin= Business unit owning the server
Mail=function or application name
01-99 = unique number
Also if it was a backup server, we would append -BAK to the name.
This made it infinitely easier when it came time to do inventory reconciliations, chargebacks, etc.
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This was exactly what I was talking about. This is what you really should do when naming a server. A concrete naming convention for server and end user machines not only helps other people who have to work with them, but it also helps you when trying to track down network issues and virus outbreaks. If you see virus traffic coming from MYCOMPUTER2378 you'll probably have no idea where it is. But if it's coming from NTW-NY-PURCH-AGENT-01, you'll know it's one of the purchasing agents computers, you'll probably know from experience which one, and you'll know EXACTLY where it is.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 30, 2005, 10:44:24 am ---
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 30, 2005, 12:47:54 am ---I can't even believe you have a friggen 20-sided die in the house! I'm lucky if I can find a pair of NORMAL dice!
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I have a whole bag of dice of various types. My kids like to play with them and it's a good exercise in shapes and numbers.
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You have kids. Game off. No soup for you. My wife was reading this over my shoulder and reminded me that we have Scattergories or something like that which has an umpteen million sided die.
And I have kids. Game on. I'll take the Crab Bisque!
hulkster:
well thanks for all the suggestions guys. although naming them something i could remember would be nice, i think for business reasons and the fact that i may have to tell employees the name of the server some time, i just need to make it something simple but with a standard like
HDMail
HDFile
with HD standing for the initials of the company. etc.
GGKoul:
I have a client that has named after Star Wars.
The Network Domian is called "The Force"
Server Names
- Amidala
- Chewbacca
- Yoda
- Leia
- Skywalker
- Solo
- c3p0
- r2d2
- jarjar
- Vader
And when you log into each server, the background is the picture of the charterer the server is named after.
fredster:
Where I work at, we named the servers by names, like the stooges or whatever.
We came up with a way to find them. It's a thing called a "map".
It's really cool. See what you do is have like this thing called a floor plan. You put the name over the server in the "floor plan" and then when something goes wrong with the server, if you aren't sure where it's at, you actually pull out this piece of paper and look for it.
In addition, we have a list of all the computers. On the list is the location of the server on the "map". We also took the time to take a magic marker and actually write the name of the sever on the actual computer.
It's worked well for so long now that we decided to keep it. That way we don't have to listen to the IT guy go on about some other "system" he likes.