When naming/labelling physically the servers two main things to be taken for consideration.
SECURITY and CONVENIENCE
SECURITY : When other persons have physical view/access to our servers they should not be able to locate the role of servers by our namings like WEB , DB , PROD , TESTING etc. By this weakness they know which machine to attack.
CONVENIENCE : Our sysadmin should be able to identify server with ease.
We name by Rack , Location and Position. Example R1CA12 i.e Machine is in Rack1 California and 12th Server. This will ease our Remote Network Operations Center engineer to know the position and coordinate with local sysadmin .
When naming/labelling physically the servers two main things to be taken for consideration.
SECURITY and CONVENIENCE
SECURITY : When other persons have physical view/access to our servers they should not be able to locate the role of servers by our namings like WEB , DB , PROD , TESTING etc. By this weakness they know which machine to attack.
CONVENIENCE : Our sysadmin should be able to identify server with ease.
We name by Rack , Location and Position. Example R1CA12 i.e Machine is in Rack1 California and 12th Server. This will ease our Remote Network Operations Center engineer to know the position and coordinate with local sysadmin .