JSS Computer Importer Tool

[calum_carey]

Hey all.
I have been playing with the JSS Computer Import Tool.
Essentially we want to bulk import a list of computers into the JSS.
We want these computer records to have the serial number of the computer, the asset tag and the computer users "username" populated into the JSS computer record.
We then have the quick add package installed on the machine which will then update all the remaining information into that computers computer record.
The JSS Computer Importer tool does this for us, except for one caveat and that is that it seems to use the MAC address as the unique identifier. If we do not put in the MAC address, or put in a bogus MAC address, the matching/merging of computer records does not occur.
Has anyone had any success with modifying the xcode project to change the unique identifier from MAC address to serial number?

[bbergstein]

In v8.x of the JSS, the MAC address is the unique identifier the JSS uses to identify the machine. I don't think you can use the serial number as the unique identifier, because there are situations when a logic board can be replaced and the serial number shows up as either blank or "SystemSerialNumber". You might have to custom create something that uses the API to update the records if you want to compare serial numbers...