Over a certain size you want your tooling to take care of that knowledge not you. You don't want your sysadmins or developers deriving information from records that can change.
if your developer or sysadmin assumes that the server named castle will always be something special instead of looking in the CMDB or other ENC for that information you will have less fun in the long run.
tl;dr random names with a central ENC forces you to only get meaning or facts from one central repo.
if your developer or sysadmin assumes that the server named castle will always be something special instead of looking in the CMDB or other ENC for that information you will have less fun in the long run.
tl;dr random names with a central ENC forces you to only get meaning or facts from one central repo.