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?
Pine, Oak, and Aspen for the towers on the network. My primary laptop is Rubber and my Surface tablet is called Birch. My raspberry Pi 4 is Pedatus, the species name of some raspberry bushes.
I usually go with characters from the Discworld series. So far I’ve had a Rincewind, Ridcully, Twoflower, Weatherwax, Ponder, Librarian, Luggage, and Hex, plus a router called “The Clacks”. Really ought to get Vimes and crew into the mix, now that I think of it… maybe the next one will be Angua or Carrot.
I always come up with a naming scheme and then immediately forget it either because I’m in a rush setting up a computer and forget to name the machine or because I get tired of trying to keep track of which machine is what.
I’ve never thought about this, but now that you bring it to my attention I think I’d go with a combination of mineral-flower, so for example “tourmaline-calendula”.
Also to automate that, I saw that there is this neat website perchance.org that you can use to construct random word generators, I’m wondering if there’s an open source alternative though, that would be great
Personally I use corporate-like naming scheme for my devices, the format is:
[AABB-CCCC-DDEE]
AA: Location of the device - HQ (home), CL (cloud).
BB: Role of the device - HV (hypervisor), SV (server), NW (network) and workstation (WS).
CCCC: Device brand (for NW), application running (for SV), and workstation purpose (for WS).
DD: For server and workstation - OS running on the device (WN=Windows, LX=Linux, MA=macOS). For network device - their role on network (RT=router, AP=access point, SW=switch).
EE: # of the device, year of purchase for WS.
For example, here’s my router, KASM server and my gaming PC hostnames:
HQNW-UBNT-RT01
HQSV-KASM-LX01
HQWS-GAME-WN16
Still trying to optimize this naming scheme, like removing all the dash, but currently too lazy to do it lol.
I used to name my cloud VMs after Monogatari characters but now I just settle with xxn.domain.tld so it’s easy to remember when I need to SSH into one.
xx = shortcode for which service the VM is from (for example Azure = az, DigitalOcean = do)
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I usually name mine after songs that I happen to be listening to at the moment.
I have found my kin here I see.
Greek god names, Mission code names, uncommon colors, famous mountains, depending on the type of devices. I must have a hundred different ones by now.
Greek and Roman god names all the way!
Star types, stellar objects, planet names, etc…
I only use robot names
Bender B. Rodriguez
Roberto
R. Daneel Olivaw
C3PO
Robotina
I use trees and other types of shrubbery. Towers and laptops are named after trees while Pis and the like are named after bushes and ferns.
Examples please?? I love this!
Pine, Oak, and Aspen for the towers on the network. My primary laptop is Rubber and my Surface tablet is called Birch. My raspberry Pi 4 is Pedatus, the species name of some raspberry bushes.
I love it! Thanks for sharing!
Names of robots or AIs, mostly.
Some names used in my household:
I usually go with characters from the Discworld series. So far I’ve had a Rincewind, Ridcully, Twoflower, Weatherwax, Ponder, Librarian, Luggage, and Hex, plus a router called “The Clacks”. Really ought to get Vimes and crew into the mix, now that I think of it… maybe the next one will be Angua or Carrot.
I do Japanese city names and the drives in the machines are named after railway/subway stations in said city.
I always come up with a naming scheme and then immediately forget it either because I’m in a rush setting up a computer and forget to name the machine or because I get tired of trying to keep track of which machine is what.
I’ve never thought about this, but now that you bring it to my attention I think I’d go with a combination of mineral-flower, so for example “tourmaline-calendula”.
Also to automate that, I saw that there is this neat website perchance.org that you can use to construct random word generators, I’m wondering if there’s an open source alternative though, that would be great
I use Grecian gods, based as much as possible after what they do. Towards the end it kinda breaks down.
Kronos - Primary Proxmox
Hera - Ubuntu Server VM
Charon - Pihole VM
Hades - Secondary Proxmox
Ares - Gaming Desktop
Hestia - Home assistant
Artemis - Laptop
Hermes - Roomba
Orpheus - Torrent box
Hermes - Pixel 6 Pro
Personally I use corporate-like naming scheme for my devices, the format is:
[AABB-CCCC-DDEE]
AA: Location of the device - HQ (home), CL (cloud).
BB: Role of the device - HV (hypervisor), SV (server), NW (network) and workstation (WS).
CCCC: Device brand (for NW), application running (for SV), and workstation purpose (for WS).
DD: For server and workstation - OS running on the device (WN=Windows, LX=Linux, MA=macOS). For network device - their role on network (RT=router, AP=access point, SW=switch).
EE: # of the device, year of purchase for WS.
For example, here’s my router, KASM server and my gaming PC hostnames:
Still trying to optimize this naming scheme, like removing all the dash, but currently too lazy to do it lol.
My kubernetes cluster is k3s1, k3s2, k3w1, k3w2, etc. My load balancer is called… lb.home.lan. I guess that we are not as creative.
I used to name my cloud VMs after Monogatari characters but now I just settle with
xxn.domain.tldso it’s easy to remember when I need to SSH into one.xx= shortcode for which service the VM is from (for example Azure = az, DigitalOcean = do)n= VM number from 1-9do2.domain.tldKittybox: old laptop that my cats like sitting on
Thinbox: new laptop that is thiner then kittybox.
Tallbox: desktop
Tinybox: BeagleBone black single board computer acting as server