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Computers more than X years old

  • November 8, 2018
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ImAMacGuy
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I'm trying to setup some reporting for management and I wanted to setup a smart group or something to check for machines more than X years old or something along those lines. I didn't see an option in smart group that looked like it would do that. Anybody have any suggestions?

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easyedc
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  • Esteemed Contributor
  • November 8, 2018

The quickest way to do it a search would just be a model year search, but that doesn't quite match the "over X years old" question.
Now granted, given that years don't change that often, you could probably just build a broad search (ie Model year like 2011 OR year like 2012, etc) and take care of most of your needs with minimal adjustment every year.


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  • Honored Contributor
  • November 8, 2018

If you have GSX access and update warranty data for your machines, you'll get a purchase date you can search on. We use this all the time.


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  • New Contributor
  • November 9, 2018

We are using this. It is approximate, but awesome.

https://github.com/pudquick/pyMacWarranty

Then I have a smart group that will report if it is over 1465 days ago as we refresh every 4 years now.


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  • New Contributor
  • November 13, 2018

i would recommend using the models for criteria, as was mentioned above