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Discover Computers scheduled task?

nduda78

Is there any way I can make a scheduled task to run Discover Computers against my domain? We decided not to use AD syncing based on all the problems we had. It's cleaner and more organized to use static folders, but I want this task to run at different times of the day or once a day.

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    Hi,

    I can think of one approach, that would be to perform an LDAP query with something like VBS to get a list of machines, compare this list with a list generated from querying the SEC DB and then add the new records into the DB.  Not a 5 minute job but possible but then I thought, what's the aim here, what would you do with these unmanaged machine names?  

    I assume maybe move them into a group and protect them at some point?  This would be manual, unless the next question is how to autodeploy from SEC?  If the ultimate aim is to automate installs of new machines without using AD-Sync,your best bet is to have a script on the "clients" that runs, checks for a "Sophos marker", and if not found run setup.exe from the CID.  If you need it in a group/certain config, based on another marker, e.g. OU, Name, OS, description, etc, you could set the group on bootstrap switch conditionally. Maybe configure an AD startup script with this.

    Does this offer any ideas?

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Hi,

    I can think of one approach, that would be to perform an LDAP query with something like VBS to get a list of machines, compare this list with a list generated from querying the SEC DB and then add the new records into the DB.  Not a 5 minute job but possible but then I thought, what's the aim here, what would you do with these unmanaged machine names?  

    I assume maybe move them into a group and protect them at some point?  This would be manual, unless the next question is how to autodeploy from SEC?  If the ultimate aim is to automate installs of new machines without using AD-Sync,your best bet is to have a script on the "clients" that runs, checks for a "Sophos marker", and if not found run setup.exe from the CID.  If you need it in a group/certain config, based on another marker, e.g. OU, Name, OS, description, etc, you could set the group on bootstrap switch conditionally. Maybe configure an AD startup script with this.

    Does this offer any ideas?

    Regards,

    Jak

    :20069
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