Our servers are named after comic book/cartoon villains, and it’s really fucking stupid. I have no idea what any of them are because systems doesn’t keep a list that’s accessible to other departments.
Makes it real hard to make SSPs without having to drag info out of the sysadmins. And we’re an enterprise environment.
Yeah, if we had a small start-up sized network, for sure. But as soon as you go into dozens of servers it becomes unmanageable :/
I need to know at a glance what the function of a given server is, my colleagues in sysadmin need to know what rack, what layer in our archi, what os, is it prod, etc.
Hence TV model style names. Don’t roll off the back of the tongue, but at least we all know what we’re dealing with without knowing an encyclopedia knowledge of anime / star wars / etc trivia.
I compensate by making fun (for me) jpeg to ASCII welcome messages when I connect to remote servers :P
Meh, I like cute names like the next nerd, but I’ve never seen any in practice. It’s all TV model number like codes.
Our servers are named after comic book/cartoon villains, and it’s really fucking stupid. I have no idea what any of them are because systems doesn’t keep a list that’s accessible to other departments.
Makes it real hard to make SSPs without having to drag info out of the sysadmins. And we’re an enterprise environment.
The most annoying usage I’ve seen was a smaller company that used stars wars names for email distribution lists.
“Why did you forward this networking ticket to Chewbacca group? It’s supposed to go to BobaFett.”
Gee, I dunno, maybe because you use cutesy, non-descriptive names for email groups instead of just networkingsupport@company.com.
I’ve seen cute names at a couple of smaller companies
Yeah, if we had a small start-up sized network, for sure. But as soon as you go into dozens of servers it becomes unmanageable :/ I need to know at a glance what the function of a given server is, my colleagues in sysadmin need to know what rack, what layer in our archi, what os, is it prod, etc. Hence TV model style names. Don’t roll off the back of the tongue, but at least we all know what we’re dealing with without knowing an encyclopedia knowledge of anime / star wars / etc trivia.
I compensate by making fun (for me) jpeg to ASCII welcome messages when I connect to remote servers :P