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?
Not just for devices but also my hard drives, I use the names of stars. For example Rigel or Betelgeuse
Discworld characters. My storage servers name is Luggage, my phone is ‘Ig’, the vacuum is named after a monk.
2nd ww navy vessels (inspired by kancolle)
personal machines - destroyers
servers - battleships
i use all the naming schemes. douglas adams, astronomy, greek letters, star trek …
have to come up with a new concept every other machine.
I use harry potter characters