As system administrators, sometimes in our lives we get a bunch of new born (or recycled) PCs, all cold and look the same. So we gave them warm and fuzzy names, to distinguish one from another.
The question is, what names would we use? I know everyone has a different system, but maybe we can come up with better or new ones. In particular, I would be most interested in:
1. what enumeration do you use / will use? i.e. real names such as alice bob, animal as lion tiger, gods as hermes zeus, stars as mars jupiter (pardon me for using planets...), chemicals such as plutonium, fruits, cities; or do you use cold and hard codes as BXaV0305a, NY-Gateway-03 & IBM0391827?
2. how would you differentiate one bunch from another bunch? there may be differences in time of acquisition, department, location etc.; would you use some kind of prefix in name to identify their membership? or use descriptions that are kept else where?
3. what happen to their name when the something changes (such as membership, location, function)? manual renaming can be extremely time consuming and are difficult to keep track of.
4. there must be a number of special purpose computers (servers, laptops etc) - what special name would they get?
5. finally, how could you remember any of this - without documents? (Michael is using 'Bazooka' running W2k, which is located in room 6/14th floor, connected to port F2/1/45 of switch PA-C3750-05 ...) Quick fixes often needs those information, and getting the big thick documents is not quick.
Any inputs are greately appreciated.
Kind regards,
HH
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