What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

[Guest chris.wilkins10@virgin.net]

Hi All

 

What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

named after popular characters or places?

 

I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

thats anyother problem ! ;-)

 

Chris ... S.london

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

Hello chris,

 

Check out this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

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> Hi All

>

> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

> named after popular characters or places?

>

> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

> thats anyother problem ! ;-)

>

> Chris ... S.london

>

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

chris.wilkins10@virgin.net wrote:

> Hi All

>

> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

> named after popular characters or places?

>

> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

> thats anyother problem ! ;-)

>

> Chris ... S.london

 

You can always be boring, and use

 

SERVER01

SERVER02

SERVER03

 

Or some variant. If the company is Amalgamated Toothpick International, you

might use

 

ATIS001

ATIS002

 

(workstations being ATIW001, ATIW002, etc).

 

I personally dislike cutesey-poo server names.

[Guest John John]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

chris.wilkins10@virgin.net wrote:

> Hi All

>

> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

> named after popular characters or places?

>

> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

> thats anyother problem ! ;-)

>

> Chris ... S.london

 

As long as you follow the naming conventions in the article suppied by

Meinolf you can name them as you please. Give them names that are easy

for you and your users to remember and that makes it easy for you to

identify them. You can name them by location; HeadOffice, Toronto,

Houston, Tokyo, BackOffice, FrontOffice, AcrossTown...

 

John

[Guest Brains,None]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

John John wrote:

> chris.wilkins10@virgin.net wrote:

>

>> Hi All

>>

>> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

>> named after popular characters or places?

>>

>> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

>> thats anyother problem ! ;-)

>>

>> Chris ... S.london

>

> As long as you follow the naming conventions in the article suppied by

> Meinolf you can name them as you please. Give them names that are easy

> for you and your users to remember and that makes it easy for you to

> identify them. You can name them by location; HeadOffice, Toronto,

> Houston, Tokyo, BackOffice, FrontOffice, AcrossTown...

>

> John

>

>

We work in head injury, so we use headache remedys!!! Plus, say a

software package starts with R, we use an R med... it also confuses

people who are looking for what we have...

 

j

[Guest Leythos]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

In article <1191927974.514733.109150@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,

chris.wilkins10@virgin.net says...

> Hi All

>

> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

> named after popular characters or places?

>

> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

> thats anyother problem ! ;-)

>

> Chris ... S.london

 

OS, Function, server number

 

S3KSBS001 - Windows 2003, Small Business Server, count 1

 

WXPWKS001 - Win Xp, Workstations (could be LTP), count 1

 

VSBLTP001 - Vista Business, Laptop, count 1

 

S3KTSV001 - Windows 2003, As Terminal Server, count 1

 

 

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[Guest Ryan Hanisco]

RE: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

The names and places thing was popular in the early 90's and is still there

as a vestigial convention in a lot of universities and government

organizations. As you have seen from some of the other postings, more

utilitarian schemes have generally won out.

 

I generally work in more distributed environments so I'll use:

<Location>-<Function><Count>

 

CHI-DC01 Chicago Domain Controller 01

CHI-SBS03 Chicago SBS Server 03

ITA-SQL02 Italy SQL 02

ITA-vSQL01 Italy Virtual SQL Cluster Node 01

 

It works for me though I don't get to tell people that TheRedQueen crashed

or that I have to reboot Chervil... A little less fun.

--

Ryan Hanisco

MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+

http://www.techsterity.com

Chicago, IL

 

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"chris.wilkins10@virgin.net" wrote:

> Hi All

>

> What do you call you server? Are they logically numbered or are they

> named after popular characters or places?

>

> I can deal with most other issues server related but naming them, well

> thats any other problem ! ;-)

>

> Chris ... S.london

>

>

[Guest Brains,None]

Re: What do you call you Servers?? - Any recommend naming convention?

 

Ryan Hanisco wrote:

> The names and places thing was popular in the early 90's and is still there

> as a vestigial convention in a lot of universities and government

> organizations. As you have seen from some of the other postings, more

> utilitarian schemes have generally won out.

>

> I generally work in more distributed environments so I'll use:

> <Location>-<Function><Count>

>

> CHI-DC01 Chicago Domain Controller 01

> CHI-SBS03 Chicago SBS Server 03

> ITA-SQL02 Italy SQL 02

> ITA-vSQL01 Italy Virtual SQL Cluster Node 01

>

> It works for me though I don't get to tell people that TheRedQueen crashed

> or that I have to reboot Chervil... A little less fun.

 

Heard tell of a VAXcluster whose members were Muppets.... Now THAT's a

cluster!!!!