Guide Topic
Infrastructure Naming Conventions
Instructions, Steps, or Information
Preface: The naming convention is based on industry best practices and the experience of the staff. The key elements that are common in any naming convention is location, device type, and function to the extent that support staff can quickly identify the impact on the college.
- Location will include campus, building and floor or room depending on the physical structure of that location.
- For example, Trinity River complex of buildings have both open floor and classroom designations. There could be a mix of floor number designations and well as floor and room number designations.
- Device type includes a high-level view of that device.
- For example, physical server, switch, wireless access point, security camera, etc.
- Function is also at the high-level for several reasons including the transient nature of virtual devices and servers including those applications that are supported by that physical device.
- For example, a physical server may run an application like DNS, DHCP, or Active Directory on a single device. To use these functions as part of the name would be impractical.
Note: As of this writing (August 2022), Real Estate and Facilities (RE&F) is going through a building naming standards change. To that extent, this document will be updated as the naming convention is set. For now, the document will reflect a default value for campus, building and room.
Standards are shown for the various physical devices in the tables below.
Examples in the various areas are as follows:
