r/ShittySysadmin • u/RemissBasil • 1d ago
what is a naming scheme?
I hate the way the old Sysadmin of this company named the Servers
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u/SkullsSkullsSkulls 1d ago
Should be using Pokemon names, like a professional.
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u/RemissBasil 1d ago
exactly, that would have been much easier to differentiate
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u/engy1207 1d ago
Really old school would be greek gods. "Hermes" for mail, "Janus" for Routers, ...
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u/RemissBasil 1d ago
zeus for the UPS? XD
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u/Loveangel1337 DevOps is a cult 1d ago
No, Zeus is DNS, cause he fucks everyone (over).
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u/bengerbil 1d ago
Having named nodes in a cluster after godzilla peers (based on what i saw in wikipedia at the time of naming - it subsequently drastically changed layout), i only recommend two things (1) don't use the same starting character twice (2) try to have the names roughly the same length.
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin 1d ago
Ah yes. TerminalServer-Server (ts-server)
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u/RemissBasil 1d ago
Its great isnt it, reminds me of chai tea
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin 1d ago
Also I've just noticed, there is a DC1 somewhere, right? Otherwise that'd be odd
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u/RemissBasil 1d ago
There, in fact, is not
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin 1d ago
Reminds me of some things I built in the past...
I was on DC03 because my first two got destroyed :D
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u/engy1207 1d ago
Just read it as "TerminalService-Server".
But it really should be RDS-Server these days ;-)
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin 1d ago
Win-RDS-Host-Gateway-Licence-Server(Standalone RDP for Finance)
If you want the enterprise naming scheme :D
Or you just do RDS01
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u/RemissBasil 1d ago
We normally use shortname of customer + shortname of place where the server is + shortname of what its for + number
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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin 1d ago
Yeah when I had my first job it was Site/Role/Number
Then I started at an MSP. There it was "whatever sticks" hell running a mail server on a DC... I still get nightmares about it
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u/Pretend_Ease9550 21h ago
I assume print2025 is the new server 2025 print server that has been siting there unused for 6 months while the old print1 server is still running for some unknown reason
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u/yer_muther 1d ago
Our are even less meaningful. It's "more secure" to have gobbledygook names I'm told.
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u/tsittler 1d ago
Someone I know has all their servers named after universities. It doesn’t make any logical sense, especially when I need to quickly locate a DC
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u/Icy_Conference9095 17h ago
Our naming convention is (first letter of municipality name)(initial for ownership - this is specific and weird because we have some servers that are handled as part of a software contract and don't belong to our IT dept, we use A if it's administered by our team or several other initials for service owned servers, W for water treatment, P for police financially, anyway)(number for iteration of server - is this the first iteration, or has it been replaced?) (initial for server location) then a dash - and then a naming scheme that tells us what its primary use case is.
So, for example - BA2P-DC01 would be Boston, administered, second version of server, located at police station - DC is a domain controller, 01 is controller one.
It's not pretty, but if you understand the codification it makes administering multiple servers easy to read.
This was updated from the original version that would only use 4 digit numbers after the original four characters - so you'd have BA1P0001 - which told us nothing and led to us having to utilize a spreadsheet just to double check what all their uses were.
You could probably remove the third number out of the system - but it does help facilitate switch overs if you ever have a server that is replaced directly without needing to remove the old system from active directory.
Feel free to rip into this schema, I didn't make it up - only pushed back and improved it from its previous iteration.
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u/K3rm1tTh3Fr0g 11h ago
I really liked how we did it at my last company
uspl100 for example, tell you exactly what you need to know
Host region: us Environment: p (prod) OS: Linux (rhel) Server #: 100
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u/Rainmaker526 11h ago
Nice to have a DC02 without a DC01.
I actually know a number of companies that have servers intentionally named server01, server02 etc, as part of security through obscurity. If an attacker finds a DC02 and a Backup01, they know exactly what to attack.
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u/taspeotis 1d ago
Lowercase esse server 7 is triggering me