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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi's quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I've broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every machine is named after what it does (although I do 1337-ify the names, because I'm still a late 90s IRC teen at heart). If you've ever been onboarded into a sysadmin role where all the machines are named with whatever whimsical naming scheme each department chose, you'll fast develop a visceral hatred for non-descriptive naming schemes. The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like 'Hedwig is down' and you have to go crawling through three layers of linked files on SharePoint to find what and where 'Hedwig' is, you'll be ready to beat the person who named it to death, and that attitude tends to persist to your home naming scheme :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So more of a "cattle" than "pet" approach in general?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on the size of the machine I'll call it big/large/huge/small/Lil then a human name like John. BigJohn is my main server and hopefully one day he can get an upgrade and become large John.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This, but it’s all suggestive names, such as:

Big Johnson, Small Richard, lil Peter, Huge Willy, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Discworld characters. My storage servers name is Luggage, my phone is 'Ig', the vacuum is named after a monk.