Our current convention is generally <buildingName>-<roomNumber>-AP<ModelNumber>[- apNumber]
We generally abbreviate building names and only use apNumber if there is more than one AP in a room. For example, “GH-2645-AP225” is an AP-225 access point located in Green Hall room 2645. When we started or AP refresh, we started including the AP model number in the naming. Bruce Osborne Wireless Engineer IT Infrastructure & Media Solutions (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Norman Chu [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 12:38 PM Subject: Naming conventions for WLAN devices We’re looking for ideas to improve our current naming convention for network devices. For an access point, it currently consists of: <buildingName>-<floornumber>-ap<arbitrarynumber> e.g. burnside-1-ap24 For controllers, we use: wireless-<its role>-wmc e.g. wireless-local1-wmc (wmc = wireless mobility controller) For access points, we’re thinking of adding location info instead of the arbitrary number, so something like: burnside-1-ap101a where 101a is the first AP in room 101 (101b would be the second AP, etc.) Switches: burnside-sw1, burnside-sw2 UPS’s: burnside-ups-1, burnside-ups2-1 PoE midspans: burnside-poe-1, burnside-poe2-1 What do other organizations use for naming conventions for their network devices? Thanks. Norman Chu Network Analyst – Network Infrastructure group Systems Engineering – McGill NCS (514) 398-7299 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
