From: John Arends (arendsj@skokie69.k12.il.us)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 20:25:37 CST
I need to do something along the lines of room numbers. Any suggestions with that?
>>> hideg@saintmarys.edu 12/02/03 20:15 PM >>>
If you take a look at my modifications to netreg 1.2, you could see a
couple of approaches I took for setting hostnames.
My June 2003 code assigns hostnames based on the owner's username.
Due to privacy concerns, I moved to a numeric assignment of hostnames
based on IP address (we assign fixed addresses for registered
machines) in the October 2003 build.
http://www.saintmarys.edu/~hideg/netreg
++Steve
At 7:40 PM -0600 12/2/03, John Arends wrote:
>I'm looking at possibly using netreg in a k12 school district. The
>use will be a little different than most of you use though.
>
>Our biggest concern are machines popping up in our buildings that we
>don't know about. There's really no problem with teachers bringing
>in laptops and plugging them in, but we need to know those machines
>are out there.
>
>The majority of the machines will be registered by us if this system
>is implemented since those will be classroom machines in elem
>schools, and computer labs, etc.
>
>Right now we attempt to track machines by running a win2k dhcp
>server that automatically creates host names based on the machine
>name on macs or PCs. It's nice, but doesn't give us any control over
>what is out there.
>
>We need to be able to identify the locations of machines. We used
>hostnames for this. In our case, the username isn't going to be very
>helpful or useful since we'll be registering 99% of the machines. It
>doesn't look like there is an easy way to set a hostname when
>registering a machine? How hard would that be to add?
>
>Suggestions? Comments?
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