I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

  • FrickAndMortar@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For work, two letters for the type of machine, two numbers for the location, three letters for the department, and two numbers for the device.

    LT01MKT27 = laptop at HQ, in marketing, 27 is the unique ID
    SV05EXC03 = server at remote office #5, running exchange, 03 is the unique ID

    At home, goofy on-the-fly names!