Can I make a Static Computer group from a list of computers?

I’m unsure what you mean.  The nature of a Static Computer group is basically a list of selected computers.  Can you elaborate?  Or do you mean import a list some particular format?  I don’t think there’s a way to import a list of computers.

​@FerrisBNA If you have a list of serial numbers you want to add to a Static group the Mass Update Tool (MUT) will do that for you. See https://www.jamf.com/blog/meet-mut-jamf-open-source-mass-update-tool/ for more info.

​@sdagley I forgot about MUT.  Been awhile since I had to use that.  Good call.

Neat tool!

I think I was thinking about solving my problem the wrong way. 

My INCORRECT thought was: I’m looking for devices that we have replaced to remove from our Jamf instance.  I was thinking that I’d make a static computer list from the serial numbers and if they are in Jamf, then they will be in this list.  

So I took a different route and exported a list of serial numbers of all the devices in my jamf instance as a csv.  I used Excel and added a column of serial numbers from the list of replaced machines.  Then used a formula to mark any of the replaced serial numbers if they were in the list of all serial numbers in my Jamf instance.

example:

=COUNTIF($D:$D, H2) > 0

D is the column of all serial numbers in jamf instance

H2 is the cell of the serial number from the list of replaced devices

This will output TRUE or FALSE.  True if it is found, False if it is not in the list.

TL;DR

I was dumb and should’ve just asked what I needed instead of how to get it a weird way.

-Pat

Thanks for the question.  I was thinking about my task the wrong way.  I needed to find some old devices that should be removed, but relized that the static list isn’t the right way to go about finding these.

-Pat