Of course, those machines are given as much DNS aliases as we need, like "proxy" or "mx4" or "terminal7" etc., so people do not need to remember cryptic names.An operating system ( OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. How many computers in total has company X?.How many windows notebooks are there in Belgrade?.This way I can easily get a lot of information just from LDAP queries about names, e.g.: Finally, 3 digits are given incrementally.Last 3 letters represent abbreviated OS type and machine type (SRV or NIX for servers and DTP or NTB for Windows workstations, HYP for hypervisors etc.).Next 3 letters represent abbreviated company name.Next 2 letters represent the city or place (BG - Belgrade).First 2 letters represent the country (RS - Serbia).Currenty we have:Īfter I started to be responsible for more than 50 servers and 800 client computers in a group company I started to follow naming convention which consists of 10 letters and 3 digits, for example: Despite that fact that all machines have "sensible" names for at least 6 years.Īlso my printers at home have always been named after poets (mono printers) and artists (colour printers). The fix became known as the "Snow White Solution".Įven now, similar problems are referred to as "Snow White Problems". You can guess the sort of thing and that it was quite tricky to diagnose at first. ![]() We got bizarre helpdesk calls from users. ![]() We once had a problem when the IP address was changed on SNOW_WHITE in the host files of some other machines but not others. Nowadays, there is a rule that devices have to have a boring (and hard to remember) string like "CAD1603" I think it was the user who logged into DOPEY who complained. That is until a customer complained that we had named their workstations: TIGGER - An Apple workstation mostly used for making musicĪt work I used to support a large number of customers and for a long time we were given relatively free rein to name machines whatever we chose. So we also have:ĮEYORE_1 - My 9 year old daughter's Asus EEEPCĮEYORE_2 - My 7 year old daughter's Asus EEEPC Beast will be running Windows, unfortunately, but the other box will be running FreeBSD and will be called "HEFFALUMP" which is the same name as its predecessor and the predecessor before that.Īt home, my computers are mostly named after children's characters from Winnie the Pooh. I've a FreeBSD in virtual machine I like a lot (I do use Windows7 as a desktop) called foxi - sexi FreeBSDĪnd my very main personal FreeBSD server in datacenter is called /translated to English and added space here/ three squirrels.įunnily enough, I am just in the process of building two boxes and one will be called "BEAST" - It will be used at home as a CAD workstation. ![]() In my setup vb for VirtualBox and vm for VMware. Non-personal virtual machines usually carry abbreviated OS type (sun, w2k3, lx, fbsd, obsd) with a preffix of a virtual technology. One OpenIndiana is named adam (abbreviation for advanced disk array management -)). I name sun servers with the sun in their name. Then some other ones which were named by the cartoon characters (Looney tunes, Shrek and some SK/CZ ones). In my LAB I've vanilla cause it was the first Itanium I bought. Sometimes it takes me more time to figure out a good name than installation alone -)Īt work, naming is very conventional and strict: two letters for a location (usually the town, not a country), three letters for a usage and a number made out of a DC location, year installed followed by an instance #.
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