Server names

[Jake]

During the summer, along with the other work we have to do, we are planning to rename all our servers to something a little more uniform. In total, to allow for any future expansion we are looking for 20 names.

 

Just wondering what everyone is using for their names at the moment, and if anyone has suggestions. At the moment we are considering characters from the film Aliens, so...Apone, Hicks, Hudson, Ripley, Bishop etc etc.

[DMcCoy]

Greek Mythology here, excluding the ones that killed their children etc

[webman]

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3359

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=790

 

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=216

[Jake]

Cheers for those Webman, I should really use the search function more often but I am just too lazy

[Geoff]

Our newest server is for WSUS and it's called Erra.

[Jake]

I like the Discworld idea, but sadly I am the only one here who reads Discworld and would know the names. Yeah I know !! The other techs dont read Pratchett...blasphemy I tell you !

[Geoff]

Start with something subtle Jake, label up your server room with a 'The Dungeon Dimensions' Plaque.

[Domino]

I like the aliens idea..

 

I assume apone would be your mac daddy DC, Hudson the flaky kit thats always falling over and Bishop your auto-update server.....

[Jake]

Start with something subtle Jake, label up your server room with a 'The Dungeon Dimensions' Plaque.

 

Hehe, I must admit, the temptation to have a server called BloodyStupidJohnson is pretty strong

 

I like the aliens idea..

 

I assume apone would be your mac daddy DC, Hudson the flaky kit thats always falling over and Bishop your auto-update server.....

 

yeah, Vasquez would be our newest and sexiest server, Burke would be our ISA server that watches communication traffic, then falls over when the going gets rough and Hicks would be our NAS server, which sits around looking good but doesnt really do all that much

[t_guest]

we use ,gold,silver,copper,titanium ,bronze

all our names

[marco84]

I remember when i was at college they called the servers after characters in the simpsons. I think the DC was Homer!!!

[philjones2000]

We have Byron, Shakespeare, Orwell etc.

 

Makes me feel interlectual except when we come to name a new one and can only think of "Grisham" or "King"

[plexer]

God I'm boring then.

 

serverXX for file servers and DC's

wserverXX for web servers

eserverXX for online testing servers

tserverXX for test servers

vserverXX for servers running virtual machines

 

Ben

[witch]

or CutMyOwnThroat Dibbler!

 

the data server would be called 'the Librarian (ook)

and the archive server - 'Death'

I think I woud call my main server Rincewind.

 

All pie in the sky, as apart from the odd caching server I only have one in each school!

[gwendes]

srv1

srv2

srv3

srv4

srv5

 

Oh yes, we rock.

 

At Novatech they were from Greek mythology I think, maybe that was somewhere else...

[Butuz]

lgs-sr-001 and up for domain controllers

lgs-sr-apps1 and up for application member servers

lgs-sr-ts1 and up for terminal member servers

lgs-sr-nas1 and up for NAS member servers

 

LGS being school initials.

 

Andrew

[jumpinjamez]

Used to have majic Roundabout characters then planets but the new NM has gone boring "Mainserver"

 

Dougal is still the proxy thou

[pete]

of the non-boring names:

Jeff

Bunyip

Hoopsnake

Sputnik

.... whatever we feel like calling the next server.

 

but mostly their true names are hidden, with cnames to services provided, so proxy goes to hoopsnake, patchserver goes to bunyip.

 

We were tempted to use Dictators as our naming convention, but thought the head might get upset to discover his files were held on PolPot.

[fooby]

tcc-share

tcc-print

tcc-proxy

tccx1

tccx2

tccx3

tcc-sharepoint

tcc-comms2

tcc-ts-01

tcc-web01

 

hmm - boring really.

 

fooby

[Wizzer]

At school, dull (initials of the school)SRV01, 02, 03 etc.

 

Although one is called surfcontrol (wonder what that does)

 

 

At home I used to use Lord of the Rings characters, but I use Toy Story characters now, Woody, Buzz, Rex

 

I'm looking forward to my kids being older and having PC's so I can use MrPotato

[Hybrid]

We use alcohol names :-)

 

Corona

Stella

Bacardi

Taboo

Sol

 

to name a few

[GrumbleDook]

Further to the list of precious and semi-precious metals ... we now have Zirconium as our VMWare box ... which hosts Scandium (hosting ePO and a few other applications), Curium (emergency DC in case everything goes down), Hassium (test Sharepoint 2007 server), Tantalum (WAMP for trying things with Moodle and Joomla), and Yttrium (Vista machine to allow us to play with Vista based policies within the domain).

 

We have also added a few Terminal Servers ... boringly called TS01, TS02, etc ... and the sun kit is SGD1 and SGD2 ...

 

Support workstations include copper, nickel, tungsten, zinc ... and mine is hydrogen.

[john]

Support workstations include copper, nickel, tungsten, zinc ... and mine is hydrogen.

 

hehe, I don't want to be coming near you with a naked flame otherwise Boom!

[kearton]

I used to work for a company called Saturn, and the servers were named after some of Saturn's moons (Pan, Pheobe, Titan, Hyperion, Atlas, Pandora, etc)

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

We use S1, S2, S3, S4, NAS1, NAS2 etc. The TS and MIS are still called DST-TS/MIS-001 from the old CC3 network as the old network manager was too lazy to change them. The other boxes are named after things that are suitable i.e. our Proxy is called the GUARDIAN.