Chuck, We did that way in the beginning, too many typo errors in the Mac addresses. Specially if use the same MAC address for radius authentication.
We bought those USB scanner not very expensive. It acts like a keyboard, it is lot quicker, It is used by all office staff that deal with MAC address. It if one the best thing we did. Tushar > On Feb 3, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am wondering how useful the bar code is. I am planning to manually enter > the serial numbers and lots of other data for each item, entering the serial > number via scanner seems like it may be more hassle than it is worth. > > From: Paul Stewart > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 2:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Physical asset inventory > > We use non removal stickers on all equipment and track it via bar code > scanning into an internally developed application. This is primarily > desktops/corporate servers/notebooks more than anything else. Public servers > and network gear do not have this yet as they are operated by a different > group, but at some point we’d like to integrate both sides. > > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke > Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Physical asset inventory > > Everything I care about has an IP address in management RFC1918 blocks and is > monitored in OpenNMS - if somebody steals a piece of a POP, we'll know about > it... > > $15 cordless engraver is used to etch names on some key equipment. > > http://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Instruments-505-Precision/dp/B004YK66NM > > > Equipment that is in storage for spares or awaiting deployment is tracked > using the same inventory spreadsheet used to track purchasing (eg: an > incoming purchase invoice/bill of sale email is matched with an incoming UPS > or FedEx tracking number, when the item arrives and is unboxed and placed on > a shelf, the status column of its row is updated). > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone use barcodes? How exhaustive and anal do some of you get when > maintaining your asset records? >
