Tags: english, debian, debian edu
Date: 2010-05-14 21:10
-<p>In the recent Debian Edu versions, sitesummary is used to keep
-track of the machines in the school network. Each machine will
-automatically report its status to the central server after boot and
-once per night. The network setup is also reported, and using this
-information it is possible to get the MAC address of all network
-interfaces in the machines. This is useful to update the DHCP
-configuration.</p>
+<p>In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary">sitesummary
+system</a> is used to keep track of the machines in the school
+network. Each machine will automatically report its status to the
+central server after boot and once per night. The network setup is
+also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
+MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines. This is useful
+to update the DHCP configuration.</p>
<p>To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary. Run