Delete Records After X Days?

[Matt]

Is there a built in feature for Casper that will delete computer records after X amount of days of inactivity. Example, a machine hasn't checked into the JSS in 60 days, it gets deleted from the JSS? How are you all handling this? Maybe a feature request?

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Matt Lee, CCA/ACA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDT
Senior IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Administrator
Fox Networks Group

[Walter]

Just curious why you would want it automatically deleted? If you knew a personally owned machine was no longer associated with the place of employment, you can manually delete the record. Otherwise it is helpful to know when a machine hasn't sent inventory information over for too long a period of time. It could be lost, stolen, turned off, etc.
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Walter Rowe, System Hosting
Enterprise Systems / OISM
walter.rowe at nist.gov<mailto:walter.rowe at nist.gov>
301-975-2885

[Matt]

I am the only JSS admin here and was off work for over a month and when I came back I had close to 50 stale machines. Would rather not have to manually delete everything :(

[talkingmoose]

Automatically adding or modifying information is fine but I wouldn't want
On 11/29/11 11:20 AM, "Matthew Lee" <Matt.Lee at fox.com> wrote:
anything automatically deleting my data. That's a recipe for trouble at
some point.

How about a method to make deleting multiple items easier? A smart group
would allow you to find stale records. When you view its members you're
looking at another computer list just as if you'd done an inventory
search. How about being able to "select all" and then "delete selected"?
Of course, it could include more options than just "delete selected" such
as "modify field".

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

[tlarkin]

Run a report for machines that haven't checked in for x amount of days then mass delete. It is quite easy really.

-tom

[Matt]

Found a great way to do it. We have a 60 day object retention policy for our PC's and they want me to do the same for the Macs.

On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

Run a report for machines that haven't checked in for x amount of days then mass delete. It is quite easy really.

-tom