pow
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Do any of you IT people do anything with this? Or do you number them or something?
My last place we used to use names of beer and wine, my private work I use names of cars (each company has a manufacturer and I use biggest to smallest), at my new place I'm using names of rivers.
Just given a laptop out called CONGO lol.
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Steve
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School initials, eg cropthorne first school
CFS-LAPTOP-01
sometimes use the laptop model so for a dell E5500 would be
CFS-E5500-01
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pow
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See I actually hate that 
I sync AD with my asset DB (which tells me where things are deployed etc) so the description field tells me everything I need to know (model, serial number, assigned to)
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Steve
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Id love to be in charge of just one network or site, because you can put so much more time into the small details like that, but when you have to support 250 odd schools in the county its a PITA
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Steve
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Incidentally im looking for a job where I can be in charge of just one system
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pow
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Fair enough. I used to look after a school one day a month and that used to drive me mad as I had no time to do details like that
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VrsTurbo
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the place im contracting at ive done a rename
***-S000X
***-D000X
***-L000X
***-P000X
The switches are different as they are in a hidden VLAN that only IT can see.
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pow
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Do you rename laptops without rebuilding them?
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ed
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I've just named them after the company, if it's a desktop it's called DELL, if it's a workstation it's called CAD and then a sequential number. At home I just use the default which is something like Ed Coleridge Smith's Macbook Air and my NAS is called NAS. Interesting 
My wifi SSID is called Hippopotamus though.
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Ian
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Liverpool Uni Comp. Sci. used rivers for the unix servers.
Used to regularly log in to congo but its not pinging back just now, that was 14 years ago though
Found po -
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/USAGE/wusage/week16.html
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Ian
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Nile still has a DNS entry
ping nile.csc.liv.ac.uk
Pinging nile.csc.liv.ac.uk [138.253.184.150] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
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John
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Company initials, LPT DSK or SRV, then counts the numbers.
Keeps it nice and simple to see who you are dealing with.
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pow
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Next one on my list is NIGER - better leave that one off
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VrsTurbo
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Do you rename laptops without rebuilding them?
Yup. Would never rebuild a laptop when it needed a name change.
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oceansoul
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Were starting to have some crazy names now, incorprating site name device type and a number. I dont get to name them but work with them. e.g. icaashfw1zzwk01 for a work station.
[Edited on 08-05-2014 by oceansoul]
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
School initials, eg cropthorne first school
CFS-LAPTOP-01
This but will add a shortened department ref if need be.
Tbf i use something similar for majority of the hardware as it makes life easier than having to guess what 'Excalibur' or 'GeordiLaForge' refers to
Pow - What do you use for asset management/DB?
[Edited on 08-05-2014 by Dom]
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Andrew
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InitialSurname-PC or -Laptop
I'm a boring bastard
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Gaz
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Our estate is huge so we use the company abbrv + Assett# + l(laptop)T(terminalD(desktop)p(printer)
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pow
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Argh when laptops are named after people it drives me fucking mental.
Dom I use a really heavily tinkered with access db that I've built over the years
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Ian
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178
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Kyle T
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Argh when laptops are named after people it drives me fucking mental.
It's the dumbest thing ever.
The place I've just taken over the IT for has got some hilarious names.
Some of the names are brilliant, stuff like:
JOHNSLENOVO
GARY
e555fortraining
etc
It's especially fun at some of the remote sites which don't yet have domain connectivity, person called Tim logged onto a local account called Steve on a computer named Sandra
How we tend to do stuff in the UK (and what I'm adopting here) is along the lines of
company initial/devicetype/unique number.
So if the company was called Corsa Sport, a server could be: CSS000001 or a laptop could be: CSL010001 and a workstation CSW020001
Servers don't just go up in ID incrementally either, the numbers are banded so 000001-000100 could be ADDS related servers, 000101-000200 could be IT utilities, 000801-000900 Mail Servers, etc.
I've worked in a place where all server names were themed, so for example all of the exchange servers could be named after family guy characters, all of the file servers named after Shakespeare plays etc. It's fun, and the name association helps.
Lotus Elise 111R
Impreza WRX STi
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dannymccann
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Our IT department uses 'LC' (Lincoln college) and then a sequential number. No distinction made as to what it is, so lc00001 could be a server switch and lc00002 could be a laptop and then 3 could be a projector. How's that itch anyone's OCD? 
[Edited on 09-05-2014 by dannymccann]
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Skinz
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We use PC and the asset tag of the machine, so mine is PC1560. Our servers our mostly company initials then sequential number, which annoys me a bit tbh.
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Hammer
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Company was in doing training the other day and the laptops they gave out were the names of Russian boxers. First time I've came across that type of thing before, they are a multinational company as well.
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
School initials, eg cropthorne first school
CFS-LAPTOP-01
sometimes use the laptop model so for a dell E5500 would be
CFS-E5500-01
Something like this.
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