Network naming schemes

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

Try this one (from my work):
State, local airport, type of machine function, numeral, company division, company name.

So, for instance, we're located in Colorado near the Centennial/Arapahoe airport as a part of the foo company unit, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bar Co. As such, the servers are named coapas00foobar, coapas01foobar, etc. and virtual machines are coapav00foobar, ad nauseam. I have to use the active directory notes to keep everything straight. :/

At home, I use the Jetsons with my PC being Astro, the server is Spacely, the shared printer off the server is Sprocket, the laptop is Orbity. Grin

Works great. Not as many characters in the Jetsons as in the Simpsons, but the Jetsons have more class.

I heard that MIT used to use types of pasta and at my old work, where I was the architect of all internet related machines, I used colors because they had been using 14k+ mountain names (only the mountains over 14k feet were used). That was fine til you got to the mountain Uncompahgre. I hated spelling that one 20 times a day and it was very used so I renamed it to blue. Grin

Another reason for the rename was that the place I had worked just prior had also used mountains. I suppose in Colorado, using the names of the mountains is a very popular thing.

Anyways, if you're going for a professional environment, I would suggest avoiding the use of alcohol names as they will project an image that you and the IT group and a bunch of drunks and even if it's true, you don't want to give them the ammo. The best advice I can give is to make the names easy to spell with few letters. This is why I went with colors for the last environment that I designed. Not many people can spell Uncompahgre correctly when you tell them to go to a file share on it, but everyone will get blue right the first time, and the same can be said for red, yellow, green, orange and many other colors. It's not til you start getting to the weird colors like teal, mauve and sienna that you would run in to problems. Luckily, a color chart can be easily found for inspiration.

Good luck!

**Modulok** · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:38:03 Post Subject:

Jynxx · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:43:33 Post Subject:

Yes! I was Just about to suggest transformers names!
The main file server could be Megatron.... and that POS print server that keeps failing could be Starscream... haha

edvallie · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:56:21 Post Subject:

we do greek mythology in the WMU CS Dept

The computer club here does various characters from the animaniacs.

both work fairly well.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:20:28 Post Subject:

Transformers? Yeah - you might as well go Beanie Babies at that point.

**Modulok** · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:36:47 Post Subject:

how about your different personalities? dr feelgood, bigbruin, 77...

speaking of dr feelgood, isnt that album like 25 years old? and when did motley crue tour last?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:46:11 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:02:39 Post Subject: