[Casper] Inventory options [Feature Request]

[Ernst, Craig S.]

Hi Tom,

I'll comment on a few of your suggestions, and I'll try to make it quick.

1) I could be off on this, but you'll have to forgive me since I don't use OD. If you go into the Admin tab and add your OD server to the list of LDAP servers can you not search by username on the Location tab for a piece of hardware to match and then stick? Here with AD we do that. We have the AD server set in Admin. When the box is Recon after the very first time it's imaged out of the box we enter in our asset tag number, and then go to the location tab, enter the username have it search and then select the correct user from AD. That piece of hardware now has that specific AD ID assigned to it, so even as that user moves offices/buildings or changes their name (gets married) the information is dynamic (somewhat). Perhaps it works the same for OD...or I'm totally not getting what you are saying. =)

3) I had put in a similar request for this. I have a smart group of machines that haven't talked in 90 days (90 days because sometimes faculty are gone all summer). You can't have it do notifications on changes like that. I asked that they figure out a way to do that even though "it may be difficult programmatically". This way I have an automatic nudge to check on a box. Realistically...90 days is still too long.

4) I've kept saying to them in the past to have a lot more granularity to rights. For example, if you wanted to allow someone work in inventory to cleanup old hardware, delete items, they also had to have access to the admin tab (that was probably a bug back then). Another is license info. If you wanted an employee who strictly works on tracking software licenses or data entry for it, they also had to have access to the admin tab (if memory serves). I also wanted to tighten up options in Casper imaging. Users can ONLY image a machine using this conifg...no option for a blank one.

Then there was the one thing I want to add:

1) In the logs locally I'd like to see usernames of who did what to a machine. If JOHN DOE imaged this box it should say it in the log. I also wanted the ability to get a notification or copy of the log generated from an imaging process. If a machine gets imaged I want a log of what they installed and who did it when in my email. It's a little big brother, but I'd much rather have an awareness of how often people are imaging machines and why.

So that's what I got for ya...I haven't seen ver 6 yet, but hopefully we'll see some of this stuff someday.

Craig

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