We have had our JSS server up and running for a few months now with about 150 computers in our Inventory. We have the JSS set up to talk to our AD servers for LDAP lookups. At first I thought this was strictly for granting rights to the JSS, but I found that you can go into the Details for a computer and edit the Location information to do an LDAP lookup by typing in a username and then clicking the little blue search icon.
I then found that there is a related setting at Settings>Inventory Options>Inventory Collection Settings>Location to "Populate the computer location information of a username from an LDAP lookup on inventory update".
The problem is I want to know exactly what this does before enabling it and I can't find a thorough description in the Administrator's Guide or on JAMF Nation. So hopefully somebody can answer my questions below:
- If there are multiple accounts on a Mac which account is it going to used to look up this info? The first person to log in to the computer? The last one logged in?
- In the situation of a shared computer am I going to have to worry about the location information changing every time the inventory update takes place (since it will most likely be a different user every time), or once this information is populated does it stay static during subsequent inventory updates?
- Related to the last question, for Lab environments if I manually fill in this info will it retain that or get replaced every time an inventory update runs?