Tom and Kansuke,
This is also maddening me! Is it possible for Dell or HP to send a client(me) a list of MACs on a shipment? We have ordered up to 80 machines at a time, and it really sucks to have to manually add them.
In current projects we have had to tie a Dell Service Tag to a laptop for warranty reasons:
Boot host
Quick inventory
List all hosts (in FOG)
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx --> gatesbill
Record MAC and Service tag Name in spreadsheet
Shutdown
Do this 9 more times
Start Multicast imaging
Box em up
Do 7x more times
Does this sound right, or am I out of it?
It would be awesome to even use the asset tag as a host name like Kansuke said. I don’t know how to program, let alone tackle linux. But I’m willing to learn!
Thanks!