{"id":3076,"date":"2019-09-23T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2022-11-29T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:38:18","slug":"interpreting-the-cnsit-naming-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/interpreting-the-cnsit-naming-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting the CNSIT Naming Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To standardize the naming of institutionally\/CNS owned devices within CNSIT, we will utilize the following standardized naming conventions.&nbsp; We are limited to 15 characters in the Windows-verse so we are forced to stick to this limit across all devices for consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One should be able to decipher the following information when looking at the name of a device using these conventions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Owning Lab\/Group<\/em>\/<em>Location<\/em>: truncated PI\/Group\/Location name, Up to 6 characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Date purchased:<\/em>\nYYMM, year and month, 4 characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Device Type<\/em>: 3 characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Extra Designation<\/em>: If device matches\nanother up to this point, increment up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Template<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NNNNNNYYMMTTTXX<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Example<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MEDFOR1802DTW02<\/strong> This is for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Windows Desktop computer in the Medford lab, purchased in February of 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Device Type Table<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Code<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>DTL<\/td><td>Linux Desktop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>DTM<\/td><td>MacOS Desktop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>DTW<\/td><td>Windows Desktop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>IOT<\/td><td>IoT Device<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LTL<\/td><td>Linux Laptop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LTM<\/td><td>MacOS Laptop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LTW<\/td><td>Windows Laptop Computer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MOB<\/td><td>Mobile Device<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NNS<\/td><td>Network NAS Device<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NNW<\/td><td>Network Device<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>PRN<\/td><td>Printer<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SVL<\/td><td>Linux Server<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SCM<\/td><td>MacOS Server<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SCW<\/td><td>Windows Server<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SVN<\/td><td>Network Scanner<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To standardize the naming of institutionally\/CNS owned devices within CNSIT, we will utilize the following standardized naming conventions.&nbsp; We are limited to 15 characters in the Windows-verse so we are forced to stick to this limit across all devices for consistency. One should be able to decipher the following information when looking at the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}