Re: Server naming conventions

["Hammond, Stanley" <shammond () CAPECOD EDU>]

Quote: "What kinds of naming conventions do everyone follow when
building new servers?"

I have seen everything across the board with server naming conventions:
One system administrator at an institution used comic book characters
(X-Men) for the servers running the databases for the financial
applications and while another administrator used Greek/Norse mythology
names for the mail, web and research servers.  One Novell administrator
was a band musician and used the instrument (trombone, tuba, etc.) for
server names.  I was checking DNS records with our service provider
(another university) and they used the Scooby-Doo characters/objects
(shaggy, fred, mystery) for their servers.  Currently, we are on the
"boring" side with server names like most using "esx" for ESX servers,
"ex" for Exchange servers, etc.  It just seems to be the preference of
the system administrator on what they like.  

Stan Hammond
Information Security Specialist
Cape Cod Community College