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Inventory Report to show UIDs

  • February 20, 2015
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I am trying to run an Inventory Report that will return all UIDs for each computer.

When I go to Search Inventory, UID does not show up as an option to display on the report. The username is there but not UID.

When I select a single computer, the UID appears in the Inventory tab on Local User Accounts. So it seems to be already gathered somewhere in the Inventory I just need to run a report with that column.

The same question is here except I want to run a report through the JSS UI instead of a script.

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5937

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    mm2270
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    • February 20, 2015

    What you've run into constitutes one of the biggest gripes I have with the Casper Suite.
    There is a lot of data on clients gathered by default by the product, but, inexplicably, not all of that data can be show in a search or a report. Forget about whether we can run searches or create Smart Groups based on that information. We can't even display the data in a report as a column. I just don't get why data is there that we can't see in a report. Its only marginally useful to be able to see it in the GUI in the individual record and nothing else.

    I really wish JAMF would make all available data in a record as something we can show as a column in a report. I get that in some cases, this may be impractical due to the fact that it may be a huge amount of information, but for items like UID, which is just a simple string, why can't we include that in a report?? All this does is force us to create workarounds like capturing this information a second time in an Extension Attribute. Such a wasted duplication of effort in my opinion.

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