Hmm I never will that anyone than one of my team will reboot a instance or server of mine. Means - if I don't have the possiblity to remote "terminate" the task - or Remote Power (IP Based) reboot the DataCenter isn't my Datacenter ;-)
Just my 2 cents - my names (chevron etc) are already on the list ;-) greetings Mike 2010/7/27 Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, uncle mantis <uncleman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Ah S**T! The Pooh server is is down again! =) > > > > What does one do if they run out of themed names? > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Brett Thomas <brettptho...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> I like names of colleges > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Dave Viner <davevi...@pobox.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> I've seen & used several... > >>> names of children of employees of the company > >>> names of streets near office > >>> names of diseases (lead to very hard to spell names after a while, but > >>> was quite educational for most developers) > >>> names of characters from famous books (e.g., lord of the rings, asimov > >>> novels, etc) > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, uncle mantis <uncleman...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I will be naming my servers after insect family names. What do you all > >>>> use for yours? > >>>> > >>>> If this is something that is too off topic please contact a moderator. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Michael > >>> > >> > > > > > > I know this is a fun thread, and I hate being a "debby downer" > but...In my opinion, naming servers after anything then their function > is not a great idea. Lets look at some positives and negatives: > > System1: > cassandra01 > cassandra02 > cassandra03 > > VS > > System2: > tom > dick > harry > > Forward and reverse DNS: > > System1 is easy to mange with the server number you can easily figure > out an offset. > System2 requires careful mapping and will be more error prone. > > The future: > So way back when a company i was at used Native American tribe names. > Guess what happened. At about 20 nodes we ran out of common names like > Cherokee, and we had servers named choctaw. These names become hard to > spell and hard to say. Once you run out of native American names and > you start using 'country names' What is the point? It is not even a > convention any more. Cassandra servers are named after Native > Americans, or possible food, or possibly a dog. > > Quick someone... fido just went down? What does fido do? Is it > important? Is it in our web cluster or are cassandra cluster? > > Someone about mentioned Chevron1 till Chevron9. Look then ran out of > unique names after the 5th server. So essentially 5 unique fun names > then chevron6-1000. Why is chevron6-1000 better then cassandra6-1000 > and is it any more fun? > > Reboots: > Have you ever called a data center at 1AM for a server reboot? Picking > a fancy, non phonetic name is a great way for a tired NOC operator to > reboot the wrong one. > -- bayoda.com - Professional Online Backup Solutions for Small and Medium Sized Companies
