What names to you give your servers?

[BKUMAR]

Hi There,

you can fix the combination as a formula

Servermake(2)+ApplnPrfx(4)+Dev/prod/qa(1)+serl/location no(2)

serl/location - you can codify your remote branches/sites you can give state codes....like MA (masachustes) IL (Illinoius)

for example your appln are financials,web appln......

hpfinad01
ibfinad01
sufinad01

that is our standards.....hth...
enjoy

[John Carr_2]

Hi

for you gys in the UK im sure you will reconise my three servers compo, clegg and foggy.

For you not so fortunate to live here they are the three characters in a TV comedy called last of the summer wine.

cheers
John.

[Andre Braganca]

Our IP addresses are divided in ranges which have a geographical or functional meaning to us. We had a coding convention for names in which we could "read" the type of machine and it's IP. We also tried to code the server function, but found that this changes too often. We are replacing this with a code with more information:

1st letter = Server or Client
2nd letter = Platform (unix, windows, etc)
3rd and 4th = location (IP)
5th or 6th or 7th = last IP field

As we can easily read the "code" and know which server we're talking about, we find it more usefull than using "themes".

Cheers.

[Mark Landin]

Note that the distinction between a "windows", "unix", "linux", etc machine will probably become quite a bit more blurred in the next couple of years.