[Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned Machines

[Roger Corbin]

That's exactly what we would like to see. And either no license fee  
(or a very discounted)
one for those machines labeled as stolen, parted out, or decommissioned.

On May 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, adamshep07 at aol.com wrote:

> I think a solution could be to change "Ensure this computer is  
> managed"
> from a check box to a drop down with managed and unmanaged as options
> as well as to add "Stolen", "Parted Out" (We salvage broken off
> warranty computers to repair other computers), Decommissioned or any
> other possible options.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Corbin <rcorbin at mac.com>
> To: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>
> Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
> Sent: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:16 am
> Subject: Re: [Casper] Feature Request - Tracking Decommissioned  
> Machines
>
> 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
> unmanagedlicenses 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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> Thomas Larkin
> TIS Department
> KCKPS USD500
> tlarki at kckps.org
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> office:  913-627-0351
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> &gt;&gt;&gt; Roger Corbin &lt;rcorbin at mac.com&gt; 05/08/09
> 10:03 AM
> &gt;&gt;&gt;
> 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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