Re: [SAGE] Re: [lopsa-discuss] Naming conventions for servers, network gear, etc.

["Nicholas Tang" <nicholastang@gmail.com>]

Interesting... the naming scheme we came up with internally is
similar, but actually goes past the host level.

The way it works is:

cc[last octet of ip]-[rack number].[network].[data center].[domain]

The "cc" is because the company is Community Connect and because it's
short.  ;)  It also gives us the ability to name non-CCI devices, if
there ever are any on our network.

This also conveniently also breaks down in to the ip address... the ip
address of any machine is 10.[data center/network].[rack].[host], so
we can go back and forth transparently between ip address and physical
location and host name without having to look anything up.

(For instance, the 10.30 network is a subnet in one data center, the
other subnets in that data center are 10.31, 10.32, etc.  10.40-10.49
is another data center, 10.50-10.59 is another, etc.)

So 10.80.17.3 would be cc3-17.[subnet abbreviation].[data center
abbreviation].ccops.us, and ccops.us just stands for "community
connect operations".  I know it's physically located in rack 17 in
whatever data center the 10.8x networks are located in.

And then, of course, we have CNAMEs that are based on purpose - so the
CNAME indicates if it's a database server, or a mail server, or a
webserver, or whatever.

It works well for us, and is of course admittedly more server-centric
than that one, but we have many more servers than
routers/switches/etc.

Nicholas

On 1/5/07, Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Mark R. Lindsey wrote:
> > Have there been any papers done on naming conventions for servers, network
> > gear, etc?
> >
> > E.g., when is it better to call it "core-router-bwg" versus "juniperm10i"
> > versus "router1"?
> > Or "server1" versus "dns1" versus "franko"?
>
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/ringel.html
>
> cheers!
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