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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @dafyre
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      @dafyre said:

      Arguably, naming by function does make more sense when you have many servers, lol.

      Back in the day, NTG used a naming convention of Austrian cities for our servers. This is circa 1999 - 2001.

      Vienna - application server
      Salzburg - database server
      Graz - email and collaboration
      Linz - virtualization

      But that didn't last too long. Once we started to grow it was obvious that it just made things a mess. Although it is amazing that I still remember Vienna and Salzburg like they were my children!

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Vienna and Salzburg were Compaq Proliant 800s with Pentium III 500 MHz 100Mhz FSB. Each had 4x 9GB SCSI drives. Only one of the two had hardware RAID. Both were RAID 5. I believe that they each had 128MB of RAM. The ran NT 4 and both lasted months short of ten years without a failure.

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          Alex Sage
          last edited by Alex Sage

          @scottalanmiller Just using linux seems to vague, why not use distro instead?

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            Vienna and Salzburg were Compaq Proliant 800s with Pentium III 500 MHz 100Mhz FSB. Each had 4x 9GB SCSI drives. Only one of the two had hardware RAID. Both were RAID 5. I believe that they each had 128MB of RAM. The ran NT 4 and both lasted months short of ten years without a failure.

            They sure don't make them like they used to!

            I remember pretty much every device I touched at my last job. Some of them I was glad to retire... others made me sad.

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            • MattSpellerM
              MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said:

              Vienna and Salzburg were Compaq Proliant 800s with Pentium III 500 MHz 100Mhz FSB. Each had 4x 9GB SCSI drives. Only one of the two had hardware RAID. Both were RAID 5. I believe that they each had 128MB of RAM. The ran NT 4 and both lasted months short of ten years without a failure.

              Mmmmm quantum hard drives - I remember the sound those make like it was yesterday. Did they have a sub-brand on those, like the desktop Fireball line? Was it Atlas? Good memories 🙂

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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                @anonymous said:

                @scottalanmiller Just using linux seems to vague, why not use distro instead?

                How often do you need to really know that at a glance? What is more important is that the Linux teams know where to log in and which team needs to look at the box. It isn't like the Ubuntu team and the RHEL team and the Suse team have different people. But Linux and Windows do.

                It's not a super amount of info, just enough for basic identification when needed quickly and to avoid errors.

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                  Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller

                  Pinging dny-lnx-jump.ntg.co [65.75.137.152] with 32 bytes of data:
                  Request timed out.
                  Request timed out.
                  Request timed out.
                  Request timed out.

                  Ping statistics for 65.75.137.152:
                  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

                  You have ping disabled?

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    You could have something like nyc-ub1404-mysql55-1

                    But then do you change the name when you update? How much details goes into a hostname? How long does it get?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
                      last edited by

                      @anonymous said:

                      @scottalanmiller

                      Pinging dny-lnx-jump.ntg.co [65.75.137.152] with 32 bytes of data:
                      Request timed out.
                      Request timed out.
                      Request timed out.
                      Request timed out.

                      Ping statistics for 65.75.137.152:
                      Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

                      You have ping disabled?

                      We don't put our internal names into public DNS. That would be silly 😉

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                        Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        You could have something like nyc-ub1404-mysql55-1

                        But then do you change the name when you update? How much details goes into a hostname? How long does it get?

                        I didn't say anything about version numbers..... nyc-cent-web-1

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                          Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by Alex Sage

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          How often do you need to really know that at a glance?

                          You don't need to know at a glance, but why not? If you going to take up characters to define it as linux, why not give the distro instead?

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
                            last edited by

                            @anonymous said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            How often do you need to really know that at a glance?

                            You don't need to know at a glance, but why not? If you going to take up characters to define it as linux, why not give the distro instead?

                            Well if you are going to script things super quickly, it's nice to say...

                            for i in $(grep lnx servers); do ssh $i uptime; done

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
                              last edited by

                              @anonymous said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              How often do you need to really know that at a glance?

                              You don't need to know at a glance, but why not? If you going to take up characters to define it as linux, why not give the distro instead?

                              Well if you are going down that path, though, wouldn't version numbers be useful? Whats the benefit of knowing CentOS but not 5 vs 6? Knowing the OS is somewhat useful, but I'm not sure it is useful enough. What change in behaviour are you anticipating from identifying CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Arch, etc.?

                              We DO code VyOS differently, even though it is Linux under the hood.

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                                Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by Alex Sage

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                What change in behaviour are you anticipating from identifying CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Arch, etc.?

                                Different commands, - yum, vs apt-get, etc.

                                https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
                                  last edited by

                                  @anonymous said:

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  What change in behaviour are you anticipating from identifying CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Arch, etc.?

                                  Different commands, - yum, vs apt-get, etc.

                                  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora

                                  But you need version numbers for that too. The distro name alone is not enough. Fedora 22 drops YUM, for example. Different versions have different service commands and packages.

                                  When would you use only the distro name?

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                                    A Former User @IRJ
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                                    @IRJ said:

                                    Server1
                                    Server2
                                    Server3
                                    Server4
                                    Server5
                                    Server6
                                    Server7
                                    ......
                                    ......
                                    ......
                                    Server88
                                    Server89
                                    Server90
                                    ......
                                    ......
                                    Server152
                                    Server153
                                    Server154
                                    .......
                                    .......
                                    and so on

                                    Um I hope not How do you know what they do?

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                                      A Former User @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      We use a code like this....

                                      [datacenter]-[os]-[application or function][number]

                                      So a Toronto based Linux server for MySQL might be...

                                      to-lnx-maria1

                                      Pretty much what we use. Except Ours is

                                      [Business Unit]-[Datacenter]-[OS]-[Function]-[Number if multiples in the same location]

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                                      • creaytC
                                        creayt @Alex Sage
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                                        @anonymous said:

                                        What do you name your servers?

                                        We have a very small pool of servers ( less than 15 ) and use fun names based on their overall prowess or any unique characteristics.

                                        Goliath
                                        Ares
                                        Achilles
                                        Cheetara
                                        Sanctuary

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch
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                                          I once named the devices of an entire network after the characters in the 5th element.

                                          Currently, everything is named
                                          [client][primary role][server number]
                                          bundydc01
                                          bundysd01
                                          etc.

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                                          • gjacobseG
                                            gjacobse @JaredBusch
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                                            @JaredBusch said:

                                            I once named the devices of an entire network after the characters in the 5th element.

                                            Currently, everything is named
                                            [client][primary role][server number]
                                            bundydc01
                                            bundysd01
                                            etc.

                                            Did you have a security server called Multi-Pass?

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