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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries tagged sitesummary</title>
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  10                 <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing MAC address of all clients</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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  15 &lt;p&gt;In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;sitesummary
  17 system&lt;/a&gt; is used to keep track of the machines in the school
  18 network.  Each machine will automatically report its status to the
  19 central server after boot and once per night.  The network setup is
  20 also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
  21 MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines.  This is useful
  22 to update the DHCP configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
  23
  24 &lt;p&gt;To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
  25 ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary.  Run
  26 this on the collector host:&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  29 perl -MSiteSummary -e &#39;for_all_hosts(sub { print join(&quot; &quot;, get_macaddresses(shift)), &quot;\n&quot;; });&#39;
  30 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  31
  32 &lt;p&gt;This will list all MAC addresses assosiated with all machine, one
  33 line per machine and with space between the MAC addresses.&lt;/p&gt;
  34
  35 &lt;p&gt;To allow system administrators easier job at adding static DHCP
  36 addresses for hosts, it would be possible to extend this to fetch
  37 machine information from sitesummary and update the DHCP and DNS
  38 tables in LDAP using this information.  Such tool is unfortunately not
  39 written yet.&lt;/p&gt;
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