The thing that more often than not that list of 'random' names isn't random. Exactly. For instance, my firewall is called "charon". Personification is a good

The thing that more often than not that list of 'random' names isn't random. Exactly. For instance, my firewall is called "charon". Personification is a good thing and should be encouraged. It's easier to visualize things that way. From an inside-out perspective (people such as accountants who see everything but, for the most part, do not understand it), naming servers like $function_$row_$rack_$slot or whatever else makes sense...it will simplify things. The problem is that it simplifies things from an inventory perspective, not from a "I'm trying to visualize this so that it all works" perspective. Think about it like this: you have things in your kitchen, right? Say you have a toaster, a refrigerator, a mixer, and a microwave. You would NEVER call them things like "appliance_counter1_left", "appliance_floor_right" etc. This would be confusing. It is for this reason that humans give things names; toaster, refrigerator, and mixer are all names, they're just very common ones.