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?
Star Trek ships at home. And Game of Thrones characters at work.
My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.
Names from various Final Fantasy titles. Playable character names for workstations. Names of summons for servers. Names of cities and locations for networking devices. Names of Moogles for some services that I wanted to give a unique name.
I generally like to take a whole “universe” for naming schemes. Star Trek is another favoured one, since you get a variety of names in different categories. Characters, Ships, Places, etc.
At my first job/internship it was fish names (they were dev/qa servers so wiped almost daily): Crappie, Bluegill, Walleye, Marlin, etc.
Current job is medical so it’s all professional (i.e gr01sec02, gr02sccm01)
At home I’ve got a couple of naming schemes for different device types.:
Phones: i-telleuwat(last 4 of the number)
PCs and Media centers: playon(last octet of the IP)
Servers:gimme(service thats hosted)urmom = main pc
fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound
I have a weird one: years ago I called one machine “nudl” (like using one’s noodle but with a weird spelling). Now I’ve got a few different nudls, a strudl, a dudl, and I think there’s a pudl in the closet somewhere.
Mine are named after mythical Asian creatures.
Phoenix, Kirin, Yuki-onna, Dragon, Kodama, etc etc
All computers are named after dogs. My dogs, dogs in the family etc. the dog name should be carefully match to the computer’s role and characteristics.
My peerlessly reliably golden retriever will almost always have a server named after him. The most powerful computer in the house is named after the monstrously large golden my parents had when I was young. My sons gaming pc is fast but perpetually broken, named after our greyhound. Laptops are named for smaller dogs, SBC devices get named after toy size dogs.
Wi-Fi ssids should always be named after cats.
This is the natural way of things.
Highest mountains on Earth. Maybe not the best idea, since it took me a while to memorize Kangchenjunga.
At least you didn’t choose Welsh towns or lakes in Massachusetts…
I do Greek goods and Titans which leads to a similar problem. But I just love that my main proxmox host is namend after a Titan with many arms.
Hey, home labs are for learning…
My Synology is named Atlas because it’s my main file storage box (and has a most of my services running on it).
My VPS is called Aurora after the atmospheric phenomenon because cloud server.
And my little laptop I installed a server Linux distro on is called Challenger because I find it challenging to work with Fedora Server sometimes
I have found my kin here I see.
Greek god names, Mission code names, uncommon colors, famous mountains, depending on the type of devices. I must have a hundred different ones by now.
Greek and Roman god names all the way!
Different Japanese food from this list, cause they are delicious.
node-0 node-1 node-2 …
Everything runs kubernetes so the names are mostly irrelevant.
Years ago I worked at a company who named everything after WoW characters. I wished murder was legal in those days.
“did you just kill LUN11 or LUN01? Oh no! Let’s hope the backup is okay!” – paraphrased from 9 years ago.
You know what’s worse than an image you can hold in your head and know you need to work on Gandalf and not Shaggy? “were we decomming uswablsalc108, or was is uswablslca018? Better check again,” and remember why telephone numbers were only 7 digits long.
Porn stars that the machines remind me of.
Stop judging me.
Well, now i need to know which ones are and what particular feature of the pcs reminds you of them
I’m incredibly boring. I name them with the company/model name. And what role they have appended.
Cute naming schemes are for people who don’t have lots of servers. At my work we have over 700 servers. We’re not naming them after something arbitrary, we’re being descriptive.
