Some producers put the serian number of their devices on the external of the box, together with the MAC addresses of the various interfaces.
This helps a lot also for non commercial reasons, so you can set the DHCP server already with the correct address for devices, before these arrive, so when tehse arrives are "plug in".
When i worked in a place tha dot almost weekly new equipments it was a very nice thing, since sellers send me the information at the same time the material was sent, so i had the time to set the server to give the new devices the correct configuration, unrespective of wo has unboxed and connected to network.
This helps a lot also for non commercial reasons, so you can set the DHCP server already with the correct address for devices, before these arrive, so when tehse arrives are "plug in".
When i worked in a place tha dot almost weekly new equipments it was a very nice thing, since sellers send me the information at the same time the material was sent, so i had the time to set the server to give the new devices the correct configuration, unrespective of wo has unboxed and connected to network.
Statistics: Posted by wooly — Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:29 pm