Name that server!!!
David Condrey 656-2733
neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
Neat Examples:
SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
No-so-neat Examples:
SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
Best answer gets a *winkie* button.
-David
Jeff Morris
->On a light note (this group gets too serious sometimes), let's hear some
->neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
->names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
I know someone who once named his servers after disposed dictators and
unpopular polititians (ie: Richard_Nixon, Hitler, etc.). The worst naming
convention I've seen was the last company I worked for; the server names where
coded by their mail-stop location (ie: CT_JP5_01). Really nice when you had to
rename a server (and reconfigure all associated software) just because you
moved it.
Gerd W. Voss
gerd
**
** Neat Examples:
** SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
** SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
** OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
**
** No-so-neat Examples:
** SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
** REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
**
**Best answer gets a *winkie* button.
**-David
** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Gerd W. Voss sys...@albany.edu
Computing Service Ctr. Network Support
University at Albany, NY {518} 442-3722
Joe Morris
A staff member originally only had access to one server (CCPC). When
SOB came on-line they were not accustomed to specifying which server
to connect to. When he tried to login he got the msg about how his
access was denied and that he was attached to SOB.
He misinterpreted the msg and notified the sysops that the network
had just insulted him! :-)
Joe
Dave Wagle
as servers, but never quite made it -- due to a lack of know-how and
political infighting. When I was told to bring them on-line, I chose
the names Lazarus and Elvis -- Both were reported Dead!
Cheers,
Dave Wagle
Da...@polaris.uthscsa.edu
Ivan Shaw
> gerd
> **
> ** Neat Examples:
> ** SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
> ** SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
> ** OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
> **
> ** No-so-neat Examples:
> ** SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
> ** REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
> **
> **Best answer gets a *winkie* button.
> **-David
The server I'm currently connected to is called MNI, but the one I
set up outside the university last year was named "Booger". Oh well,
the sysadmin there had a thing for mucus.
- ivan
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Zeus Mailbox
> On a light note (this group gets too serious sometimes), let's hear some
> neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
> names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
>
> Neat Examples:
> SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
> SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
> OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
>
> No-so-neat Examples:
> SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
> REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
>
Seen at the dutch LAN-world (great humor, Douwe & Jaap)
Asterix
Obelix
Assurancerix
Doenix
Idefix
Beatrix
Doenix
Zelfnix
Ooknix
Unix
These are all names taken/invented from the french comic Asterix & Obelix.
The self inveted ones where: Doenix (do nothing), Beatrix (the dutch queen),
Zelfnix (me, nothing), OokNix (nothing myself), Unix...
Greetings...
Henno.
Zeus mailbox Mai...@zeus.ice.nl
Henno Keers CNE He...@zeus.ice.nl
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Arthur Green
>On a light note (this group gets too serious sometimes), let's hear some
>neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
>names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
>
> Neat Examples:
> SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
> SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
> OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
>
(Professor/teacher) is for staff members, while DALTA, MACLEINN,
SCOLAIRE (all words for student) are for students. The testbed server
is LEGBA, named after the voodoo spirit of pathways and communications.
It gets a chicken sacrificed in front of it every week ...
- Arthur Green
University College Dublin Computing Services
Email: art...@cclana.ucd.ie Tel: +353 1 706 2456
Fax: +353 1 283 7077
John J. Jobst // IM-I
vampire, and there is a print server named Akasha, as well as Merlin. We
also have communications servers called Huey, Louie, and Dewey. Tape servers
Eric_the_Red and Erin_the_Green. NetWare 4.0 beta server is named after the
Norse god of mischief: Loki, and the NetWare Directory Services tree is
called Styx. Our Oracle server is named after the famous Japanese samurai (a
survivor of the battle of Sekigihura) Musashi. And the production Oracle
instance is the Jean Auel heroine Ayla. All this at a government agency
where other system managers use their office symbols to name things!
John J. Jobst US Army Corps of Engineers
jo...@smtp.lms.usace.army.mil 1222 Spruce Street
314-331-8662 fax-8677 St. Louis MO 63103-2833
It ain't that there's too many fools in the world, it's just
that the lightnin' ain't distributed right! -Mark Twain
Brian Comin
Space Nine, since we are constantly testing out new hardware and software
configurations on it!
Brian Comin
Dynapro Systems Inc.
b...@dsi.bc.ca
Jeff Macdonald
>neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
>names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
>
> Neat Examples:
> SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
> SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
> OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
>
> SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
> REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
>
>
Here at Southampton, we name our servers after beach related items:
Surf, Sand, Seaweed (the Natural Science server), and Sunburn.
Jeff Macdonald
Assistant Network Engineer
Southampton Campus
Long Island University
Southampton, NY 11968
(516)283-4000 ext 352
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> I am an Anne Rice fan and our main server here is named Lestat, after her
> vampire, and there is a print server named Akasha, as well as Merlin. We
> also have communications servers called Huey, Louie, and Dewey. Tape servers
> Eric_the_Red and Erin_the_Green. NetWare 4.0 beta server is named after the
> Norse god of mischief: Loki, and the NetWare Directory Services tree is
> called Styx. Our Oracle server is named after the famous Japanese samurai (a
> survivor of the battle of Sekigihura) Musashi. And the production Oracle
> instance is the Jean Auel heroine Ayla. All this at a government agency
> where other system managers use their office symbols to name things!
Maybe a tip for your printservers/queue's, we named them after a bunch of
painters and artist's:
Mondriaan (a hp plotter; famous painter designer)
Picasso (same; same)
Dali (hp 4; salvador dali, famous painter)
Rietveld (intel netport; famous architect)
Corneille (same; famous painter)
Koons (hp 4; Jeff Koons,artist, famous for the pictures he took with
his wife)
Willink (hp 4; famous painter)
Rembrandt (laserjet II; the painter)
Goldreyer (pserver.nlm, serves rembrandt; heavy payed painting restorer,
fucked up a restoration of 'who's afraid of red, yellow & blue' in
Amsterdam)
Richard Letts
This is all well and good when you have a limited number of Fileservers and
printer/plotter devices.
We (I) initially started naming them after Dwarves out of the Hobbit; before I
could move onto the Lord of the Rings, and the Book(s) of Lost Tales I hit a
problem:
Which building was Dwalin located in ?
What sort of server is it ?
When we rebuilt the servers with NW3.11 we renamed them all after the Buildings:
Newton-A, Newton-B, Newton-C : user's filestore
Newton-1 : the cluster server
..... etc for 48 + servers / 20+ buildings
Similarly for printer/plotter queues; in our machine room we have 8 plotters,
6 laser printers, 4 line printers, 2 labels printers, 2 paintjet printers, and a
colour postscript printer; around campus we have a further 24 line printers
and 6 plotters, excluding devices purchsed by departments.
Naming these after painters/sculptors/architects would give the operations
staff huge headaches.
Naming in general has serious implications;
Acronyms are nice for a department, but convery no meaning if the
department is split across buildings (Imagine AIS-1 to AIS-48 !!)
Building Names are Okay, but don't indicate which department owns the
server (This is our situation)
Anything Mythical - Suppose two departments want the same name - how
to you resolve the problem ?
People's name's - can lead to amusing messages, but could upset senior
managment who think you are fooling around with expensive toys...
("Madonna is going down at 1645 for essential maintenance")
NetWare 4.0 - You now have a naming scheme for users which is not
related to the server(s) they can access :
eg c=GB.o=salford.ou=ais.cn=ais007 has access to :
CWB-A/user1:ais007
CWB-B/vol1:anon
[Naming in this context has more serious implications than just having
to setup the applications again - you may have to re-register ALL of
your users.]
What we do:
AIS - owns & operates servers across buildings
- Boring names so we know where the servers sould be
other departments
- pick departmentaly relevant names
eg ATLAS = Geography
TURING = Mathematics and Computer Science
- or <dept>_servername
eg EEE_SIM (Elec Eng - Comp. integrated Management)
SURVEYING_MSC (Department of surveying MSC students)
- or anything else
YOGI - Smarter than your average Bear
printer queues are named after the device, and where it is
This is hidden from the user by batch files in
APPS:%NETWORK/
Print servers are just PS_<server_name>
eg PS_NEWTON-A
Despite all this I know I'm going to have problems when/if we connect two
campuses together due to some name-clash, so perhaps it would be better to
have names of the form GB-AC-SALFORD-NEWTON-A ???
{In NetWare 4. this may be more feasable !}
By now you are bored with this message. Sorry its so long, but there you are,
once you start me off I'm typing for ages....
Richard
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Peter S Cook
GROUCHO CHEECH HARDY
HARPO ABBOTT
CHICO LUCILLE
GUMMO GRACIE
ZEPPO LAUREL
Adds a little humor to everyone's day. I know of a site where they were
named for classical composers and another for country musicians.
-Peter- ----->pc...@world.std.com
rbo...@iusmail.ius.indiana.edu
>
> SCOTCH VODKA RUM TEQUILA ...
> SPOC KIRK SULU PICCARD ...
> OAK PINE MAPLE CEDAR ...
>
> No-so-neat Examples:
> SERVER1 SERVER2 ...
> REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_1 REAL_LONG_SERVER_NAME_2 ...
>
>Best answer gets a *winkie* button.
>-David
>
:
:Here at Southampton, we name our servers after beach related items:
:Surf, Sand, Seaweed (the Natural Science server), and Sunburn.
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Here at the Southeast campus of Indiana University we name our servers
after presidents. Current selections are: Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson,
Washington, Roosevelt and Nixon :-). We have also had servers named:
Clinton, Garfield and Quayle (the backup server [never did work
right].) - Rick
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Carol Anne Ogdin
>>On a light note (this group gets too serious sometimes), let's hear some
>>neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
>>names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
Here at Deep Woods Technology, we name Servers after trees, naturally:
MAPLE
BIRCH
--
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Carol Anne Ogdin, Principal Designer treat humanity never simply as a
Deep Woods Technology means but always also as an end."
fri...@well.sf.ca.us --Immanuel Kant
Aaron Morrison
Probably no winkie for this one, but:
servers here at the University of Central Florida are assigned numbers.
UCF-FS100 UCF-FS101 UCF-FS102 UCF-FS200 UCF-FS202 UCF-FS300
UCF-FS400 UCF-FS500 UCF-FS501 UCF-FS811 UCF-FS700 UCF-FS600
etc etc etc (about 21 servers are named this way.)
About 6 servers are student servers. (100,101,300,500,501,102). There are
a couple of servers that are explicitly named. (UCF-DIALUP, UCF-UNIX)
Those are kinda obvious on what they handle.
The names and/or the network address is chosen to reflect the building number
the server is supporting or is physically located.
As far as print servers, they are given of the form %Building-%Room-PS
to reflect the location of the server. PrintQueues are named similarly, eg
%Building-%Room-%PrinterName. (CC2-106-Laserjet-III services CC2-106-PS )
Not the most humorous naming scheme, but does have expandability as it's best
asset.
As for the Unix boxes on campus..........
Brian Wood
> rbo...@IUSMAIL.IUS.INDIANA.EDU writes:
>
> >>On a light note (this group gets too serious sometimes), let's hear some
> >>neat naming schemes people are using for netware servers. Neat single
> >>names are ok, but expandability is a plus.. :-)
All
Forgive my cynicism/paranoia but my first reaction is "Why do you
want to know?". Knowledge is power.
Cheers
Brian Wood
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