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In order to identify and locate equipment in the case of threats, harm or infection, it is important that university-owned workstations, servers and laptops be assigned names that adhere to a standard naming convention containing sufficient information to identify and locate them.  The Office of Information Technology has developed such a standard to be implemented for university-owned computers.

The naming convention relies on the inclusion of the inventory number assigned to the computer at the time of purchase or at the time of addition to the domain – those which are not registered in the University Inventory list will be identified separately, registered with a special indicator and tracked by means of a database.  Provisions for computers with multiple operating systems and those with virtual systems will be included.

The naming convention will not permit names which elevate risk, such as location, operating system, department name, user name, etc.  The name will not contain offensive or controversial words or phrases. 

The details of the naming convention will be found on the OIS CAM Project Customer Discussion page.

Effective Date:

August 1, 2011 (for new computers and those referred to OITConnect)

Compliance Date:

July 1, 2012 (for all computers)

Last Revision:

February 9, 2011