Re: Physical Computer Location

[Pete Hunt <lists () petehunt co uk>]

At 09:31 25/08/2003 -0500, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am a newbie trying to make some in-roads in the network security
> department.  I work at a hospital with approximately 1000 users but
> about 3000 computers.  We are currently rolling out new computers and
> are having problems after they are installed.  For example, we replace
> the secretary's computer but the doctor is fussing because he is not
> getting a new one.  So, he being the powerful doctor will swap the new
> one with his old one.

Hmm... cut his hands off?

Depends greatly on company / IT policy, but users really have no business 
altering equipment, and certainly not physically moving it.  If it's not 
possible to enforce a "hands-off" policy like this, maybe it's worth 
ensuring doctors get new machines before secretaries (or think they do - 
clean a few old cases?), it would cut down on your workload.

my 02p

Pete

> We then have the wrong location listed on the
> information database for that computer.  We try to correct the situation
> as much as we can but this being a huge hospital, it gets very hard.
> So, what can we do to keep track of any physical movements of the
> computer over the network?
> Any suggestions are acceptable.  We just
> can't lock down the computers because of all the movements in
> departments because of construction.
>
> Thomas Graf
> IS Hardware/Software Tech
> (254)724-0155
>
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