Thursday, August 23, 2007
Joe - You know say daddy me snow me-a blame
Busy, busy, busy. Weeks worth of work at BMRI coming to a head with the big move. Note to self: Find person who decided that med computers should be named by their room numbers and punch his face. Wrote an essay on medieval ivory carving. Utterly failed to tempt workman over to repair leak in our back room. Bezley staying over for the next couple of days.
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I always prefered computers to be named after their room number rather than say their serial number. With the limitation of 16 character how would you like them numbered?
I think that it's easier to logically name each computer and then keep track of where they are in an asset database, because it would be a hassle to change all the hostname, dns, etc. if the computer was shifted to a new room.
I'm not a fan of the room number thang - it would be better to make some sort of enhancement to the Sydnet to tell you that stuff. Of course you'd have to have a database that listed the port mapping in each room. Which would be painful.
My preferred scheme is something like sjoe-laptop or just whatever the hell the user wants to call it. That's how I name my machines.
I used to be all down with the sjoe-laptop idea but over time I have changed my views.
At the Uni of London there were days when I would have to cover for other CSO's in their department. The naming policy there was xx-yyy-name what xx is building code and yyy is room number. It meant that any new/visiting CSO could find a computer rather quickly.
In practice I find computers move a lot less than the names of their users change. and if the computers are connecting to a directory of some type it's ery easy to see how many computers are in each building/room etc.
fair enough. Means you're at a loss if the machine has moved though, and moving a machine means renaming it.
I personally think that someone competent ought to automate it properly - switches know what machines are connecting to what port; theoretically that can tell you what room a machine is in. An asset management system can tell you the same thing (and it ought to be telling you that anyway - the stuff in the name should only ever be a copy of the asset mgmt data).
The other thing was mainly that when I was a CSO I almost never got problems saying "Machine 1.2.3.4 is bung!". It was "Fred's machine is bung!". But maybe things have changed since my day, and you young whippersnappers have all new troubles :)
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