It has been found that, on occassion, AeXSNPlus can return more than one serial number. One such case is when a laptop is plugged into a docking station and snplus captures one serial number for the laptop and a second for the docking station. It is possible for the docking station serial number to be incorrectly reported as the laptop's serial number.
A filter for aexsnplus.exe can be created to ensure the docking station serial number is excluded.
Suppose that the docking serial number begins with "00C0".
[VERSION INFO] Version=1 [SNPatterns] DisallowedPattern1=00C0*
aexauditpls.exe /hidden /output xml aexmachinv.exe aexcustinv.exe /in .\AeXCustInvStd.cit /out AeXCustInvStd.nsi aexsnplus.exe /output xml aexnsinvcollector.exe /hidden /nsctransport /v default /useguid
aexauditpls.exe /hidden /output xml aexmachinv.exe aexcustinv.exe /in .\AeXCustInvStd.cit /out AeXCustInvStd.nsi aexsnplus.exe /output xml /ini exclude_dockingstation.ini aexnsinvcollector.exe /hidden /nsctransport /v default /useguid
Note the use of wildcards in the pattern match.
Note that multiple entries can be added to the snplus exclusion ini file:
[VERSION INFO] Version=1 [SNPatterns] DisallowedPattern1=00C0* DisallowedPattern2=00D1* DisallowedPattern3=00E2* DisallowedPattern4=00F3*
We'd actually like to turn this functionality on or use a custom inventory to grab it. Has anyone had success with the HP line of laptops & tablets? We would like to use this to track down docking stations that go missing.
Currently on version 6.1 but moving to 7.0 this fall.
thank you,