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Prevent duplicated computer objects
Greetings!
I wish to count on yout knowledge one more time to clarify about what identify an computer. Page 31 of Inventory User Guider says:
In Snow Inventory, an inventoried computer is identified by four properties: its site name, hostname, BIOS manufacturer and BIOS serial number—concatenated into one property— and an operating system identification number. If two or more of these properties change, Snow Inventory will identify the computer as new, and subsequently create another computer object.
- It's possible to view those id properties somehow?
- Operating System identication number, it's an hash generated for each computer when the OS is installed or it's a OS version generic number?
- IP address isn't a value considered to differ a new/old computer object inventoried?
- I'm pretty sure that the only changed value for duplicated computers in my company is the hostname. With the "hostname only" feature I could set to Inventory Server consider only the hostname differing computer objects?
- The snowserver.conf for that should be:
<AgentIdentity>
<HostNameOnly>
<SiteConfiguration expression="{A}">
<HostNames name="A">
<HostName>*</HostName>
</HostNames>
</SiteConfiguration>
</HostNameOnly>
</AgentIdentity>
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hey,
So the values (examples) are
Sitename: COMPANY
Hostname: KL000001
Bios Manufacturer: DELL
Bios Serial Number: 0000394
Operating System Identification Number: (OS SID), I'm pretty sure this is unique
If any of those values change, the machine will report in as a new machine. If you enable Hostname only mode, the only thing the Inventory will check if its the same or different devices is your Hostname - so if your Serial Number changes Snow will ignore it if the hostname is the same.
This doesn't apply to machines already inventoried, it only applies to machines that are inventoried AFTER the Configuration is updated.
Thanks
Laim
Thank you very much Laim for the information.
To clarify, for instance, we have the computer DSKTP001:
Once we format the computer DSKTP001 obligatorily the value OS SID will change. For my scenario, Site name and BIOS almost always will be the same. So, for every time the Host Name needed to be changed I'll get a duplicated computer object. It's that right?