Re: Changing System Name

I used to feel the same way about system names.  When I set up a system for
a client, I always used the format 'S' + the serial number of the machine. 
Why fool around?  

But guess what, recently I had a client replace a computer with a RISC
machine.  The computer being replaced was sent to another location. The new
machine had a different serial number.  The old machine still had the same
serial number.  And all kinds of things, including communications programs,
were looking for the system based on the serial number. Now what?

I wound up making quite a few changes for the sake of consistancy, that I
would not have had to make if the name of the system was not tied to the
physical machine.   I sort of wish now that I had just named it after Star
Wars.

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> From: HankHeath <HankHeath@aol.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Changing System Name
> Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 2:15 PM
> 
> We are a consultant group. We name our systems and customers' systems as
> vanilla (read: same as out of the box) as possible. When we have to
> communicate with them, there are no surprises (read: some wiseass named
them
> after Star Wars). 
> 
> Our greatest horror is to have a new customer call with an immediate
support
> problem, only to have to wade through hours on-line determining what an
ex-
> programmer had set up to help him (or her) pad a resume before leaving. 
> 
> If all you do is in-house work, do whatever you will. If you need to
> communicate with the outside world, don't kid around with your naming
> standards. This is a business machine, after all.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Hank Heath
> root
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