[Casper] Searching for Accounts

[Steve Wood]

When I first read this I thought "sure you can do this", but looking  
at the options for Smart Groups, I don't think you can.  In fact, I  
don't even think you can with ARD either.  Finding the machines that  
have the user should be fairly easy, just use "dscl" along with "grep"  
to identify the machines that have the account.  The difficult part  
comes in identifying the machines somehow with a tag that the JSS can  
use.  If the JSS could use the ARD text fields to build smart groups  
on, then you could write a value to one of the text fields and grep  
for that in the Smart Group.

Sorry, hope that gives you some ideas, but I just don't see a way to  
grep the text fields.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

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On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote:

> Sure can...maybe.
>
> Management Tab
> Smart Computer Groups
> New Smart Computer Group
> Give the group a name and check the box if you want notification of  
> additions or removals to the group
> Click the + for Computer Info
> Select Platform
> In the field for Platform enter the word Mac
> Click Save Group
>
> Since you can only create smart groups with managed machines this  
> should give them all to you. In fact you don’t even need to put in  
> any criteria and you should get the same results.
>
> If you are specifically saying that you have a maintenance account  
> that is NOT the same as the account the JSS uses to manage the  
> machines then I don’t think there are any easy options built into  
> the JSS to do that type of search in mass. Although local account  
> information is stored in the inventory record for each managed  
> machine.
>
> Hopefully that’s helpful. Otherwise...feel free to submit a feature  
> request. =)
>
> Craig Ernst
> Systems Management & Configuration
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>
>
> On 7/23/08 1:22 PM, "Paul Austin" <paul.austin at wachovia.com> wrote:
>
> Oh Wise ones,
>
> I have a maintenance account on some machines and not others. I  
> would like to be able to create a smart group based on machines with  
> this account, or at least be able to do an inventory search for  
> machines with the account. Can this be done?
>
> Paul Austin
> Wachovia Desktop Services
> 704 427-0903
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