My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).
What are your computers named, and why?
Servers and computers get Ankh-Morpork street names.
The robot vacuum cleaner is GLaDOS.
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having read all these other comments, i'm now feeling like i should come up with a more creative naming scheme... for what it's worth, my phone is named
bob.I recommend flavours of popcorn: Caramel, Cheesy, Buttery, etc. And Bob.
Damnit, I'm boring af. Machines are named by their model for laptops/consumer devices and buy their CPU for home built stuff.
Except for Crimson-Binome.local 🏴☠️
Desktop - thebox
Server - thecloud
Phone - thewand
Tablet - theportal
Home assistant - theoracleNot too creative, but it works.
I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.
It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied "cluster" were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.
When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.
Let's face it, it is mostly AD admins who don't get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be ... authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.
I completely agree with the "01" problem, it should be "001".
Single digit is great but then one service needs more than ten, or you keep rolling them over into new ones (one of our production server is 13 because it's the thirteen generation). But then I want all the numbers of have consistent patterns, so if one has two digits, they all have to have it.
But I'm not allowed to name servers anymore.
All my servers are named after colors
Then my vms are ingredients to an omelette
All ~60,000 servers are given 32-bit UUID's, plus a 3 word CNAME from 3 unique and distinct lists of nouns. i.e. a server would have an A record of 1b30fafd-0a28-4999-b51f-bfa2b8af68e5 and a CNAME of tiger-ball-hill. A few servers that I often SSH into will be given friendly cnames like "bastion1" or "ansible" or something like that.
My PC is named Shai'tan, and my laptop Astraea. As for why, it's because I am into fantasy.
My stationary devices are named after evil characters from middle earth, ungoliant, gothmog, morgoth etc. Mobile devices are named after good characters, illuvatar, gil-galad, elendil. My dad uses native American tribes for names.
I used fictional locations:
- Server 1: valinor
- Server 2: terminus
- Main pc: isla-nublar
Users are named after movies or tv shows characters when I'm not using my name
framepuncher for the desktop
smolmac for the macmini running all the things that would be more at home on an rpi if the mac hadn't been 50 bucks when pi's were in three digits
the nas is Steve, formerly Ralph. Ralph became the router.
Really uncreative, but: $myInitials-desktop $myInitials-server $myInitials-laptop
With my username being…. $myInitials. Surprising, really. Boring, but consistent. :)
My PC is called "Powderkeg" because it keeps blowing up on me.
