Voted Best Answer
Jul 25, 2019 - 01:46 AM
Putting countries in naming conventions makes sense as long as your estate is relatively static; but no need to invent new codes, just use the ISO codes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
As for anything else, depends on how you are going to use it, how static the environment is to support it. I have seen:
- OS indicators; largely pointless as any inventory tool should have this
- Server/desktop/ laptop etc; again largely pointless
- environment indicator; Dev/ test/ DR/ Prod/ Staging/ training etc. This can be very useful as inventory tools don't capture, but if devices move between enviroments (eg test > Staging > prod) then this is ineffective
- Business unit indicator; can be useful
- function indicators (APP/ DB etc) not very useful, especially as some servers can have multiple functions
As for anything else, depends on how you are going to use it, how static the environment is to support it. I have seen:
- OS indicators; largely pointless as any inventory tool should have this
- Server/desktop/ laptop etc; again largely pointless
- environment indicator; Dev/ test/ DR/ Prod/ Staging/ training etc. This can be very useful as inventory tools don't capture, but if devices move between enviroments (eg test > Staging > prod) then this is ineffective
- Business unit indicator; can be useful
- function indicators (APP/ DB etc) not very useful, especially as some servers can have multiple functions
