Computer name
The computer name is how a laptop or PC is identified on the network. Every PC in WRHA has a computer name based on location and serial number. The name is required by the service desk to remote control the PC. Also, it allows us to identify a PC in our inventory to determine purchase date etc.
finding computer name locally
The computer name should show up on your desktop background; it is called "host name" there. If it doesn't show up there, then:
- right-click on "My computer" on the desktop
- click properties
- click "Computer Name" tab
- look at "Full Computer Name"; the part before the first "." is the name, the part after is the domain
finding the computer name of a collector laptop without access to laptop/collector
They are aggregated in Workstations.mdb.
The collector laptops write their name to the data file, so the laptops names can be found in the data directory (backup location) on the Regional Server. Open the sub-directory for the collector's location, then the ccmdb_data.mdb. Computer name is in the field_data column of the record with field_name "computername" in the a_info table. Workstations.mdb collects them from here.