I have two questions that I am hoping that someone might be able to answer regarding the Location Property Wizard.
First Question - Does anyone know if it will accept a CIDR block instead of an IP range? I have a large number of CIDR blocks for our network segments that I was hoping we could do a large import for but I can’t tell that it will accept it and didn’t really want to convert the CIDR blocks down to an IP range unless I really needed to.
Second Question - Is there anywhere other than viewing the individual computer properties that will show what all IP ranges, Subnets, or Cidr blocks have been setup through the Location property wizard?
For the first question, I think it depends on whether you’re using CIDR subnets or CIDR blocks. I.e. if you’re using a block like 192.168.0.0/16 to represent a single subnet, or to represent the collections of every network beneath like 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, etc.
If you use the Location Property Wizard with the first option, ‘Create a retrieved property that maps subnet to location.’, it should work if you’re using CIDR subnets. You’d define the subnet as 192.168.0.0, and a client on 192.168.16.202/16 should still report its ‘subnet address’ value as 192.168.0.0 and match the wizard’s subnet definition.
If you’re using CIDR notation to represent blocks of subnets though, as in ‘all the 192.168.0.0/16 networks are in US’ but the clients are still split up on smaller subnets beneath that CIDR, it won’t work. The 192.168.16.202/24 client would reports its subnet address as 192.168.16.0 and would not match subnet address 192.168.0.0. In this case, yes, you do have to provide the ranges, and use the third option in the wizard 'Create a retrieved property that maps IP address range to location. ’
I have about 4k Segmented IP scopes that are defined by CIDR blocks that I’m hoping to convert to IP range since it doesn’t appear that CIDR blocks are going to work the way i was hoping it would.
Thanks for the response. Regarding the second question I’m guessing there isn’t somewhere that you can view the locations that you’ve set right? When you run the wizard do you just have to keep appending on additional ranges to your initial list so that they aren’t over written, or does it retain what you have already done somewhere?
The wizard itself doesn’t keep that. What I usually recommend is to keep the ranges & values in a spreadsheet, use the spreadsheet as the the reference list. The wizard is designed for easy copy & paste from a two-column spreadsheet into the wizard
Thanks, I got them Imported and everything appears to look good. I was just hoping to find a better place to pull up the configurations down the road. Thanks for your advice.