Messa Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Name them after the 100 Sexiest Women in the world as voted for by the readers of FHM. Ooer. GJE Thing is there is a school near us where the network manager does name them after women! Sighhh
torledo Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Ours our named after their functionality. e.g. rootdc1 rootdc2 intranet appsrv filesrv simsserver proxy proxy2 etc yep, i like to have 'srv' in the name somwhere.
AngryTechnician Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Switches Galactica - Core Switch Apollo - Edge Switch Starbuck - Edge Switch Racetrack - Edge Switch Boomer - Edge Switch Athena - Edge Switch Husker - Edge Switch Helo - Edge Switch Duck - Edge Switch Hard Ball - Edge Switch Jammer - County Link Crashdown - County Link Backup Yes, I know its Geeky..... I recognise a lot of those names from our Maya rendering workstations... Almost all of our servers are named with non-English proper nouns that are consistently difficult to spell. The NM has a list of them. One day I am going to kill him and rename them all to something I can type without having to reduce my typing speed to 1/3 of normal.
FragglePete Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 My last place, I had BORRIS, MORRIS & DORRIS. Pete
powdarrmonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 My last place, I had BORRIS, MORRIS & DORRIS. Through the Dragon's Eye! yaaay!
button_ripple Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 We've named them like this: Primary (file (used to be DC before we expanded)), Secondary (apps and print), Tertiary (Admin), Quaternary (DC) Just going to keep going like that! Before we got primary and secondary we had server and nt1.
actech Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 I'm another one for the solar system:- Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars & Jupiter Except we skipped Earth. When we got to that one it just sounded weird so never used it.
synaesthesia Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 My home server (and main box) is Holly. I've 3 other systems/laptops, Hilly, Queeg and Gordon A cookie for whoever spots the theme.
powdarrmonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 My home server (and main box) is Holly. I've 3 other systems/laptops, Hilly, Queeg and Gordon A cookie for whoever spots the theme. That would be Red Dwarf. I claim my cookie.
Oops_my_bad Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Would be really interested if anyone knows the naming conventions for BSF servers/farms - bet it's really boring/non-innovative stuff
powdarrmonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 bet it's really boring/non-innovative stuff BSF or their server names?
FN-GM Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 I know someone who has named them 1 - 15 - hard to remember what server number does what.
diagram Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 I name mine from this list: http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/assets/documents/10004262prisonlist_nov_08.doc 1
synaesthesia Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 That would be Red Dwarf. I claim my cookie. One cookie is yours. And it's even a Maryland Double Chocolate Chip one, no Aldi bargain basement types here!
powdarrmonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 One cookie is yours. And it's even a Maryland Double Chocolate Chip one, no Aldi bargain basement types here! How excellent. I was going to ask if you were delivering or posting, but as it's such a luxury cookie I'd like it by special please.
leco Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Coming in late to this thread but my first server was called Pauline. Shortly followed by Matthew, then came Tubs, Iris and of inevitably Dave ("You're my wife now.").
Stuart_C Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 I use Norse mythology at work: I soooo wish I'd thought to do that! Personally It's a bit dull here, I use SRV[server Role].
gaz350 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 we have a mix of sources for names. windows servers tend to be LOTR (sauron for our cctv, merry + pippin for eportal and cmis database servers) mac servers have mcx+what every it does linux servers i setup are wow bosses. some old linux servers that an old techie name are some geeky swear words from some geeky tv show. (loomas, mivonks)
mb2k01 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 My last server install was for a new Exchange server. Being that the initials of the school I work for are BS I thought why not combine the two! It wasn't until a week or so after when I was troubleshooting an Outlook issue on the Headteachers PC he turned from the screen with a confused frown and said "BSEX-01", who called the server that?!" that I realised I might have chosen a more suitable name!
Deep_Throat Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Interesting topic, but I think I will refrain in giving out such information as I am paranoid about IT security. Yes they may be just names of servers or equipment on a network which may or may not be in a DNS table of sorts but a hacker or someone with a grudge has to start somewhere.
john Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 I had a convention which was 3 letters of job title, so when it came to the Assistant Heads PC, well she became the ASSHEAD-01 and I thought I can't call it that, so it got changed to ASSTHEAD-01 just for her (as she was a supportive asst. head ) and she said how come everyone else is 3 letters and i said well it was rude to call your PC an asshead and she was oh its fine i've been called far worse in my career as a teacher than an asshead so I had to laugh
IanT Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 My servers: SCS-SRV-EX01 - Mail Server/DC KERMIT - DC FOZZIE - DC SCS-SRV-IT01 - IT Server SCS-SRV-SCS - SIMS Server SKINNERSIMS - SIMS YODA SHACKLETON - NAS
bladedanny Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 I had a convention which was 3 letters of job title, so when it came to the Assistant Heads PC, well she became the ASSHEAD-01 and I thought I can't call it that, so it got changed to ASSTHEAD-01 just for her (as she was a supportive asst. head ) and she said how come everyone else is 3 letters and i said well it was rude to call your PC an asshead and she was oh its fine i've been called far worse in my career as a teacher than an asshead so I had to laugh Our assistant head's is asshead, nothing personal just how it is, also Faculty manager ended up as facman
Wils86 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 I wanted call ours after godfather and mafia characters, sad I know and the SAN i wanted to call Chicago. Mess about in chicago and you will sleep with the fishes lol sad . In the end it was KEA to represent the school and a letter to note function, so KEAP is primary, KEAB is backup, KEAS is sims and KEAM is multipurpose (WSUS etc), with KEABSTOR for the backup server software etc.
IanT Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 My Servers at home: WWNDC01 (Virtual Machine running on VMWare ESX 3.5 Server) WWNDC02 WWNEX01 WWNWB01 (Virtual Machine running on VMWare ESX 3.5 Server)
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