Workstation Naming Convention
All Research workstations and laptops are named with a standard convention. The convention is sr, for surrey research followed by the last 5 barcode digits.
For example:
sr-#####
There are three exceptions to the rule
- wireless devices
- ACS-owned machines (supplied to staff)
- VMWare "virtual" or pseudo interfaces
Wireless devices receive a 'w' modifier:
sr-w#####
Example: a wired computer with a complete barcode of: 3 934500 000318 0, would have sr-00318 hostname. All characters are lowercase.
ACS-owned machines, supplied to staff (typically), or loaned, receive an 'sc' modifier:
sr-sc#####
Example: a wired computer with a complete barcode of: 3 934500 000318 0, would have sr-sc00318
VMWare "virtual" or pseudo interfaces recieve a 'v' modifier:
sr-v#####
Example: a virtual machine with a physical barcode of: 3 934500 000318 0, would have sr-v00318
How to add an LDAP-entry, allowing this newly-named machine to be joined to the Research Domain:
http://research.iat.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Research_Administration_Tasks#Adding_Computers_to_the_Domain