What is your machine naming scheme?

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?

databug,

My server is named Yggdrasil and my devices are named after the 9 realms.

p5f20w18k,
@p5f20w18k@lemmy.world avatar

Ship names from the expanse.

My PC is the Rocinante My home server was previously the Behemoth, put it in a smaller case so now it’s Medina.

T_K,

Various computers/robots from media.

My desktop is Eddie (The name of the shop’s computer from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and my home server is HEX (the weird magic computer in the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University in the Discworld novels)

quantumantics,

I use Roman authors, with the machine/VM’s purpose (often vaguely) linked to what the author was known for. For example, my NAS is called Tacitus (a historian), while my game server is called Plautus (a playwright). A couple services predate my schema (like my Pihole and OPNSense box) and are named descriptively.

ABeeinSpace,

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

Kadaj21,

I do models for laptops and case names for my built desktop. So Dell-3590 or my desktop is NR400.

I know who has what so its easy to manage if i want to cut off network access or transfer files.

Wispy2891,

I asked chatgpt a while ago and it told me this scheme.

A random word starting with V for a virtual machine (and gave me a list of ten words)

Start with L for laptops, add letters for other distinction

Funny, the latest three VMs i setup after that chat had a name starting with V 😂

tabular,
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I’ve not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.

Shrek,

Shrek - OPNSense, because it (firewall) guards my swamp.

Dragon - NAS, because of a dragons hoard.

Donkey - Proxmox, I use this for a few VMs and docker containers. It stores my DNS, donkey was annoying, and there is nothing more annoying than your DNS going down.

Fiona - Backup NAS - less big, only stores important backups.

oblique_strategies,

All my homelab stuff is boring. Host machine names are just 'model ’ + ‘-’ + ‘increment’. VMs and containers are either service or service + increment.

Whimsical names and themes are fun, but don’t scale and I need the mental bandwidth for other things than mapping service to machine etc.

thorbot,

For my clients, we just use company shortcode+role, IE Northern Energy Exchange would be NEE-DC (domain controller) NEE-FS (file server) NEE-APP, NEE-DT-1 (desktop #1), NEE-LT-1 (laptop #1) etc. At home, my network is called Asgard and each device is related to that in some way, all themed appropriately.

sxan,

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  • MolochAlter,

    A fellow liver of mythology I see! I use the watcher angels from the book of enoch.

    Mr_Dr_Oink,

    Try monopoly board street names like oxford road or parklane. Or maybe flower names like daisy or pertunia.

    NABDad,

    I used to work in the GRASP lab at Penn, and my predecessor there was John Bradley of xv fame. He had started naming all the machines after fish.

    When I got there I continued the practice, naming some tiny computers being used for mini robots after different types of goldfish.

    In my current job, years ago, I managed a group of Linux servers, and I named them after Demons (Lucifer, Asmodeus, Azrael, Beelzebub, etc.).

    At this point, there is a specific naming convention in use where I’m at, and the name is limited to identifying organization, application, and server type.

    dan1101,
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    We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.

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