I ran into the 8 character limit a few years back. Here's what we came up with for a convention.
fnclnx01
First three letters for function of machine
Second three letters for OS (w95, w2k, wnt, lnx, hpu, etc)
Two numbers for designation should there be more than one server of that function... we would subst letters for numbers when the machine was virtual (ie load balancing, clustering, etc).
It worked well for us. At a second company with multiple sites we omitted to OS designation in favour of a pre-determined city code (ie. Airport code).
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Started @ 8:30am ... seems to be better now for us.
I ran into the 8 character limit a few years back. Here's what we came up with for a convention. fnclnx01 First three letters for function of machine Second three letters for OS (w95, w2k, wnt, lnx, hpu, etc) Two numbers for designation should there be more than one server of that function ... we would subst letters for numbers when the machine was virtual (ie load balancing, clustering, etc).
It worked well for us. At a second company with multiple sites we omitted to OS designation in favour of a pre-determined city code (ie. Airport code).
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