We get the same request from time to time. Our security team have also
wanted us to do a feasiabilty on software to monitor locations of all
devices that they could corelate data with the local police but as we
don't have an SOE this won't get up.
Another angle that we have implemented is that when security report a
stolen laptop to us, and we can verify the mac we log a job with the
details into our incident system and then use WCS to disable it
accross all controllers with a description of the incident number - in
the belief that if it was ever to reapear it will not work until it is
reenabled. With any luck whoever is assigned the renable job will read
the case log.
Phill Solomon
University of Melbourne
On 10/12/2008, at 16:06, "Hector J Rios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Once in a while we get calls from the university police department
asking us to search for stolen laptops. We use the stolen laptop’s M
AC address to search in both DHCP and WCS (we are a Cisco shop). We’
ve never been successful in recovering a stolen laptop. So far the t
hieves have been smart enough not to ever bring those laptops back i
nto our campus. I’m curious to know if any of you have come up with
a way to automate the detection of a wireless device. Something like
waiting for a laptop’s MAC to come on the wireless network and imme
diately sending an email to an operator.
Thanks,
Hector Rios
Louisiana State University
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