Site Naming

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As described in Chapter 8, "Designing Your SMS Sites and Hierarchy," it is a good practice to develop a logical site-code and naming-convention strategy. With consistent naming conventions, administrators can use the site codes to locate the parent-child relationships within the hierarchy. This is also useful for support and recovery issues.

Remember the following:

  • SMS site codes cannot be changed after they are created.

  • It is important to be consistent with your IT organization's existing naming conventions.

  • Do not use the same site code name for more than one site in your enterprise.

  • Avoid the use of extended characters in site code names.

  • If you are using Active Directory, your Active Directory site names must use only valid characters, as described in Active Directory documentation.

  • Do not use MS-DOS directory names that are not valid, such as AUX, PRN, NUL, or CON, for your SMS site codes.

  • Symbols are not accepted in the database name during setup.

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