When deploying multiple network devices over a diverse geographical area (ISP network), what do you recommend naming these devices? Do you internally have your own labeling scheme, or use some industry standard way of doing it?
It seems that many of the new monitoring platforms want us to define a hostname for every device (in addition to a name), so we are trying to decide on the proper format.
We used to label the devices by client / customer name, but that is proving difficult as some devices service multiple clients plus clients names change overtime. Plus clients typically have multiple devices at the same site.
Should the name include the make and model of the device? I would think no as that is usually pulled from the device itself using SNMP. Example Juniper MX204
Should it include geographic info? We are including the Lat, Long, and address in the SNMP syslocation location.
Any advice would be great!
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