1. A computer system, said computer comprising: a bus; a central processing unit; computer system memory, said computer system memory being connected to said central processing unit via said bus; and a name search mechanism contained in said computer system memory for execution on said central processing unit, said name search mechanism using a single indexing structure to locate at least one computer system resource, wherein said at least one computer system resource can be located by said name search mechanism via a computer system resource name or via a computer system resource unique identifier (UID).