MAC Address

Customizations
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(imported topic written by deanmorris3891)

Is there anyway to show a registered computers mac address in the BES Console? It would also be handy to then create a custom report showing username,ip address and mac address. Any help is much aprreciated.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

This is the one that I use - and works well.

mac addresses of adapters of network

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(imported comment written by Doug_Coburn)

Good place to look for common properties is here,

http://support.bigfix.com/bes/misc/retrievedproperties.html

Doug

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(imported comment written by deanmorris3891)

Sorted. Many Thanks

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(imported comment written by rdamours91)

I’m looking at creating a retrieved property that will report the mac address of the active nic regardless of the OS…which means including Windows 9X pc’s. I see that the “mac addresses of adapters of network” will work for all nics on XP, 2000, 2003…but not 9X.

For Windows 9X I’ll use the following which is the MAC address from DHCP on our 9X pc’s

Q: (if (exists (value “HardwareAddress” of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\DHCP\DhcpInfo00” of registry)) then (value “HardwareAddress” of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\DHCP\DhcpInfo00” of registry as string) else (“n/a”))

A: 000103240e15

Just wondering how I screen out only the active mac in the XP/2000/2003’s. I don’t want to pull multiples on pc’s with more than one nic…

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(imported comment written by intrepdmind91)

Bump on a really old post…

Is there a way to query ONLY the primary MAC address on windows machines? In a dos prompt typing ipconfig /all will return all MAC addresses, but the primary, hardwired NIC is always listed first, even if not in use. Is there a way to have BigFix hone in on this NIC only?

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Check here:

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=2924

The relevance would be

mac addresses of adapters whose (cidr string of it = wake on lan subnet cidr string) of network

Ben

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

This works great with Windows boxes, but we have a bunch of SLED 10 boxes (and other linux flavors) that report the result as . Is there anything that works with inspectors on linux boxes, or will we have to do something with writing the results of ifconfig to a file and reading it? Thanks.

EDIT:

We managed to figure out that the following relevance will retrieve the MAC address on a linux box:

mac addresses of ip interfaces of network

While we were able to get your code from the previous post to work with Windows, when modifying to use the above code, it did not work.

What we ended up with was this:

if name of operating system as lowercase starts with 
"win" then mac addresses of adapters of network 

else mac addresses of ip interfaces of network

This works for 99% of what we do since almost all of our boxes only have one interface, though it would be nice to know if linux could figure out the “primary” MAC address as well.