Short time reader here, newbie Jamf admin to boot.
Stood up JSS 8.6 and upgraded to 9.1.1 and just tonight to 9.2, have a large org with lots of devices and complex network.
Most networks are analogous to buildings which usually contain one or more specific departments, such that the departments are often (but not always) unique to each building. Almost every building also has a server that can act as the jamf distribution point. I've defined the buildings, departments, distribution points, and network segments.
It sounds like I can run recon on a network segment manually and get it to apply the building and department values to discovered devices. That's generally undesireable as I have hundreds of network segments. Can a recon also assign dept/building to an already discovered device? (At best my reading of the docs suggests maybe.)
It seems like the "override" checkbox in the Network Segments should provide what I am looking for - to automatically assign based on IP (network location) the dept/building values that devices ought to generally have. The docs suggest that this will stamp devices coming into the segment with the overriding dept/building values assigned to that segment... but what happens with devices that have blank values that already reside within that segment? If I change the segment scope later will that impact devices that were previously outside the segment? What do I need to do after defining a segment to get the dept/building values to apply to the devices entering that segment - so far I've tried rerunning a jamf recon from devices within the network segment but that doesn't seem to apply the overriding dept/building values to a blank or incorrectly populated device.
I'd really prefer to avoid creating a bunch of computer groups or searches and manually applying the buildings and departments. JAMF generally seems like a great product so I hope I'm just missing something obvious!