I use a fictitious company called MyCompany for use in some of the things I describe in my writing..
I had done this write up a long time ago and it's influence can be seen in many of my post. I had done this to describe the naming of elements in a Domino DB environment, but many of these ideas are transferable to other directory structures. I'm putting this here so that others can see it as a template for themselves and maybe build on it.
If you want to see where it's been used, search this blog on "MyCompany".
Naming Conventions
Site Names
As far as sites are concerned, admins and business leaders need to come to their own terms. Traditionally, we have stuck with three characters representing a local name, the business unit, and the larger geography they exist in. For example:
BMO - Butler Manufacturing Ohio
MRO – Marysville Research Ohio
Servers Names
Roles
- SuperHubs - manage the replication and mail transfer between regions.
- Hubs - can replicate application and route mail.
- Spokes - are typically more specialized and are broken down into Application, Mail, Dev, QA, and other..
Naming
Regional admins work with sites admins to work out the names, but should be named after their functions. The only part which there is a hard rule are for the first two parts of the name.
- The first character describes the server as an H (hub) server or an S (spoke) server. Superhubs are designated by Z.
- Next is the site name (like JMO, MMO, PMO).
- Lastly, the site specific unique identifier.
Here are a few examples:
HRSM0001/SRV/NA/MyCompany Hub for Rochester, MA
SRSMM001/SRV/NA/MyCompany Mail server for Rochester, MA
SRSMA001/SRV/NA/MyCompany Application server for Rochester, MA
HAMA001/SRV/NA/MyCompany Hub server for Aubrey, Arkansas
STMTBS01/SRV/NA/MyCompany BlackBerry server for Townsend, Tennessee
HAMA003/SRV/AU/MyCompany Hub server for Albany, Australia
ZMMO003/SRV/NA/MyCompany Superhub in Marysville, Ohio
SMMOM023/SRV/NA/MyCompany Mail server in Marysville, Ohio
My Company in North America
/MyCompany
A regional admin will be given the regional cert to manage the creation of sites, servers and people. Regional admins can give sites a cert to manage servers and people.
This is how NA (North America) is set up...
/NA/MyCompany
People
Sales
/RSM/NA/MyCompany (Rochester, MA)
Manufacturing
/AMA/NA/MyCompany (Aubrey, Arkansas)
/TMT/NA/MyCompany (Townsend, Tennessee)
/BMO/NA/MyCompany (Butler, Ohio, USA)
/EMO/NA/MyCompany (Euclid, Ohio, USA)
/JMO/NA/MyCompany (Jamestown, Ohio, USA)
/MMO/NA/MyCompany (Marysville, Ohio, USA)
/PMO/NA/MyCompany (Paulding, Ohio, USA)
/YMO/NA/MyCompany (Youngstown, Ohio, USA)
/WMK/NA/MyCompany (Weskan, Kansas)
/UML/NA/MyCompany (Uncle Sam, Louisiana)
R&D
/MRO/NA/MyCompany (Marysville, OH)
Canada (Sales, Mfg.)
/CN/NA/MyCompany (York Point, Prince Edward Island)
Mexico (Sales, Mfg.)
/MX/NA/MyCompany (Oaxaca, Oaxaca)
Servers
/SRV/NA/MyCompany
Other Certs
AF (Africa)
/KSS/AF/MyCompany (Koidu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone)
AN (Antartica)
/HRS/AF/MyCompany (Husvik, South Georga Island)
AS (Asia)
/GMC/AF/MyCompany (Qingzhen, Guizhou, China)
/HMC/AF/MyCompany (Dongfang, Hainan, China)
/MMI/AF/MyCompany (Parbhani, Maharashtra, India)
AU (Australia)
/AMA/AF/MyCompany (Albany, Western Australia, Australia)
EU (Europe)
/BME/EU/MyCompany (Sutton , Central Bedfordshire, England)
SA (South America)
/AMA/EU/MyCompany (Albany, Western Australia, Australia)
Many of these sites also have Sales included on the same certs.
There are also research facilities in India (MRI) and in England (BRE).
You're done!
