Smart static groups

I don't believe that group membership can be a criterion for a smart group. Perhaps that can be a feature request.
Does your static group have any other common elements?

If they're on the same isolated subnet, you can create a Network Segment for
them and use that as the common criterion.

You could create a "beta testing" Department and add all of these machines
to it and then scope down your smart group from there, i.e., by having
criteria of "beta testing" department and >0 SW updates available.

If you know the names of the systems you could add criteria for Computer Name IS <name> OR for each of the machines since there aren't many.

Add a unique local user account to the systems so you could flag them in the receipts local accounts criteria. Whack the account when you're done.

Otherwise as Miles suggests...feature request, but having a static smart group doesn't make sense as I pretty much would use the word dynamic in place of smart.

Craig E

hi,

yes thats what i do for pilot and testing macs, i create a department
and put them in it

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

Hi-

It looks like this will be the best option as I've only got 2 departments set up right now anyway. Is JSS ID to Department a 1 to 1 relationship?

j

On 11/17/08 19:25 , "Criss Myers" <cmyers at uclan.ac.uk> wrote:

hi,

yes thats what i do for pilot and testing macs, i create a department
and put them in it

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

Jared

There are tons of ways to do this. Here are some ways how you can
separate machines on your network.

1) JSS ID - once your system has been inventoried it will give you a
JSS ID which is unique to that computer. You can create a smart group
based on the JSS ID

2) Network segments - If you have them on their own VLAN or behind a
router with NAT, and know the IP ranges that those machines get, you can
create a network segment of those machines only

3) Naming convention - If they are named unique compared to your
production machines, you can create a group based on name

4) To further point three, you can also do it by OS, software
configuration, etc

I had a couple of Mac minis behind a router which all were given a
certain IP range that is unique to that network, then created a smart
group and department based on that network group. Then have a second
JSS and a second set of clients behind NAT for my sandbox.