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June 23, 2011 at 03:58 AM
flidmouse

How can I find PC’s in use ?

by flidmouse . Updated 15 years ago

Hi,
We have 1000+open access PC’s in various rooms across different buildings, which are represented as such in different OU’s in our new Active Directory setup.
Is there a way I can find out how many of those PC’s in each group have a user logged in to them, without having a client on each machine transmitting its MAC address and a time stamp to a database, for example.
What I am trying to do is to generate a webpage with a view of all our open access suite’s and the number of available ( not being used ) PC’s in each one. ( Who is actually logged in may be required later, am awaiting a senior management decision… )
Under Novell Zenworks I had a client on each PC with a unique room identifier transmitting its MAC address and a timestamp to a database, from which a script would work out how many PC’s were available where. I am trying to avoid anything having to be installed client-side, if possible.
Thanks in advance
Rob

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