> Thanks - what about assigning host names. > For example if your host name were generated (based on local conventions) > as C1LVM001 how would you track this and how would you assign the 002, > etc. host names?
Netreg has a user-creatable exit point for doing this. You tell it how to construct the name, and it does it for each new MAC it sees, updating the DNS if allowed to do so, sending mail to the DNS admins if not. It also adds comments to the DHCP config wrt to host configuration and OS as best it can figure out, and if you add on some additional open source widgets, it will trigger virus and security scanning as well. In your case, get your DNS people to delegate a subdomain to you and run the authoritative DNS for that subdomain. Then it "just works". Netreg was designed to deal with registration of enormous numbers of student machines at Southwestern College. It's good at this stuff...8-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
