Safe to enroll distribution points in JSS?

arpierson
New Contributor III

I work for a school district, and we're thinking about placing a distribution point in every building to lessen network load (approx. 25 buildings). JSS doesn't seem to have a great way to manage distribution points (e.g. checking uptime, network status, etc.).

My thought was to enroll each DP in JSS, create a smart group of them, and exclude the smart group from all policies. From there, I could create a policy scoped to the DP smart group to ping our Active Directory server every check-in or something similar to at least give me an indication that the DP is up and connected to the network.

Would it be an issue to enroll distribution points in JSS? I don't see why it would be, but I'm trying to be cautious before I pull the trigger on this.

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dgreening
Valued Contributor II

Honestly I set up a secondary JSS to manage our DPs. I wanted ZERO chance that a policy or settings change would hit the DPs.