[Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines

[Thomas Larkin]

I may need to read the fine print of the EULA with Casper or perhaps contact their legal department but if the client machine is not in use how can it be taking up a license?  If you decommission a machine and toss it in storage, its not in use at all so how can it feasibly be using a license?  I don't know the ins and outs of how exactly the license works but I would contact Jamf and ask them, and then let us know so we all know. 

Thanks 

Tom


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>>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 1:16 PM >>>

But then isn't that stolen machine still taking up a managed or unmanaged license ? This is another example of a thing we would do as well.  

We are a large school district and over the years these stolen or decommissioned machines can add up. Taking up managed or unmanaged 

licenses in Casper. Perhaps Jamf can still charge us for these licenses, but at a lower rate.  



On May 8, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: 




One thing we do for stolen equipment is add the word _STOLEN at the end of the computer name in the JSS database.  Then we create a smart group based on the name.  That is how we track it, you could maybe do something similar.


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>>> Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com> 05/08/09 10:03 AM >>>
More and more Casper is also becoming a tool to track all of our 
computer assets.  Eventually a computer gets too old for us to use or 
is deemed not repairable.  In our old inventory system (Which we are 
still running simultaneously as well.) we can change the 
classification of these machines to "decommissioned".   For 
accounting, historical and work order purposes we track those machines 
for a time even after they are sent off to recycling. It would be 
great if Casper had some sort of classification for this so that you 
could leave it in inventory but not take up a license (managed or 
unmanaged.) I'm not sure how practical this would be, but it would be 
handy for us. These decommissioned assets would not need much 
information on them.  Just asset number, make and model and serial 
number. Maybe some date information. Just bare bones basics. I'm not 
sure if this is something anyone else would use or not but it would be 
very handy for us.


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