Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Hey guys,

I've had a look around the forums, and found a few articles, but just wanted some clarification.

Basically our finance people have a bit of an issue tracking the location of workstations in our department (to update their records). 

I want to assign each workstation to a desk location in our building - ground floor, desk 30 for example (abbreviated: GF.D30).

What is the best way to go about this? If we have 2000 locations, do I need to create 2000 locations and then assign computers to them? Would I create 2000 desk assets and associate it to a computer? Seems a bit convoluted.

Is there just a field/column in a table that we can populate data into? Or do I need to go and create 2000 actual locations?

Am I better off updating the user location and reporting through that based on primary user? I'd like to avoid this if possible.

Does anyone else track their computers this way? We have Asset Management installed.

Cheers

Rhys

The assigned a barcode to every office and location, then went around scanning in the barcode and assigning to users.  It was a lot of initial-up-front work, but it was highly flexible.

As for the location, I think you can simply edit a user or computer and add a location already if you have a standard location syntax you can use.  I've pulled Asset from my installation so I can't confirm that, but I'm pretty sure you do NOT need to create 2000 locations.  It should be a field already.

We've created a script that asks users for their location, generates an NSE with the new data class and then shoots it off to the NS.

Works quite nicely.

There's an article floating around here which shows you how to do this in 7 through VBScript.