Naming Schemes
 

Who uses a scheme, when naming computers and/or other networked hardware?

If you use a scheme, I'd be curious to find out what it is... just to see what kind of creativity is out there, and what ideas I can leech for future naming schemes. ;)

Here's a few of the devices at work and home that I've named:
Routers: Echelon, Tempest, Carnivore
Switches: Cipher, Trinity, Nemesis
Domain Controllers: Overlord, Hivemind, Swarm
File Server: Damascus
Webserver: Landmine
Workstations: Wintermute, Neuromancer, Playfair, Vigenere, Skipjack
Laptop: Ghost

names from the simpsons: seymore, marvin, willie, milhouse, rainier, kent

Down at work, we named all of the computers after famous spaceships.

I don't know if you saw this thread:

http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....&threadid=1068

Naming scheme - StarFleet ships.

(my bf's idea...heh.)

i dont mind tho..my puter's name is Aurora, is a nice, pretty name. :)

I chose a bad pun. jump to the aforementioned other thread if you wish to shudder at it :)

to be honest, I envy those who abide by a scheme. However, I like the name to best represent the "persona" of the computer, or what I feel is best, whichever is more appealing at the time. Sooo, I name at my whim.

mine are all named after various goddesses. I choose a name that fits the persona of the computer..

for example, my laptop is Hecate, the triple goddess, mainly because i use it in three distinctly different fashions..

I administer several sites. A couple noteworthy systems:
dilbert theme (phb, asok, alice, wally...)
Pennsylvania sports teams (steeler, pirate, sixer...)

Same here. My one system is called Pheonix, because it always crashes horribly, but I refuse to replace it. My gateway system is Cerebrus because well, you get it.. And my work system is called Durance (look it up for the reference)..

At the office (I work for an ISP), we used elements for the server names. It gives us alot of names to work with

I name my computers with names I would never give my children. Consumer level systems get girl names. Pro systems get boy names. If I have named my computer with your name, please don't take offense :)

iBook: Helen
iMac: Molly
Powermac G5: Unnamed. Maybe Dave or Vince.

Yeup, saw it and posted in it (and revealed that my naming scheme is basically five letters and (usually) containing profanity; e.g., FUBAR, SNAFU, Bitch, Grunt (no profanity, but hey... what's a guy to do?), and so on).

- At work, we use movies, and drinks, among other things
- At home, my own personal network is named after mountains. My server is Kilimanjaro, and my main PC is Everest.

at work i use brands of scotch - makes for interesting names.

my cluster before that was named after the time bandits - og, wally, vermin, strutter, ... um and some others :)

A friend names his after U.S. nuclear tests, they had pretty good names.

My next will be memorial for the tangs/surgeonfish that have bit it under my care.

Virtually all of my personal systems are named after a Tool song or album.

At work, I normally work with the machine for a couple weeks or so before rolling it out (except the client machines, those are auto-assigned in many cases) so I name them according to the experience, which is why the first XServe at work was BFM aka Big Fucking Mac. The next one is NFM, Noisy Fucking Mac.

I just pick whatever.

losthellhound: I think it's "Cerberus" pronounced with a hard "c" in Latin.

We have servers in two colocation centers. Machines in one center are named after ancient cities ('jericho', 'carthage', 'athens', 'pompeii', etc). The machines in the other center are named after elements ('carbon', 'helium', 'lithium', 'boron').

Each employee gets to name their own desktop, so there's no particular scheme there. My desktop at work is called 'pynchon'. My home computer is named 'barth'. Post-modern American novelists. :D

I support lots of different companies... some of my favorites have been sports cars, planets (they ran out of server names), and the Brady kids...

Best account name of all time came from an automated system that used the first initial and up to 5 characters from the last name. It had worked fine for years, until Frank Uckerman called in to get his account set up. My technicians were laughing so hard they couldn't talk to the poor guy on the phone... That account required an override to the account generator.

At the client site where I was working, they had named a server Skipjack. I had wondered why...until now. :)

I usually use a star theme.

Antares, Sirius, Orion, Rigel, Vega, Procyon