Our access points are
ap-<building>-<floor>-<arbitrarynumber>
where <building> is a three digit building number (a very few buildings have
letters because there isn't an official building number)
We don't use room numbers because a) most buildings don't have room numbers on
the doors so you still have to look at a plan b) interior remodelling of
buildings takes place frequently and rooms change number.
Controllers are named trapeze-mx-n because they are Trapeze MXs (now Juniper
but Trapeze when we first bought them). N is just a counter.
Network switches are <dept><type>-<building>-<arbitrarynumber>
<building> is the three digit code as before
<dept> is a two letter code for the department that occupies that building
<type> is a five letter code for the type of switch
We should possibly review this as there have been a number of University
reorganisations so the department codes we use bear little relationship to
current department/faculty/school structure. The information is useful in that
it also happens to mostly represent our layer 3 subnet structure but maybe we
should use this instead. Also we now have a much more homogenous switch install
so the type is less relevant.
For other devices we have some descriptive abbreviation (e.g. cam for camera,
amr for automatic meter reading) and the building number but these are not as
well defined/consistent as they probably should be.
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Jonathan Haynes
Senior Network Specialist
IT Department Tel: 01234 754205
Bld 63, e-mail:
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Cranfield University,
Cranfield,
Beds, MK43 0AL
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Norman Chu
Sent: 02 February 2016 17:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 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
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