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Two computers wuth the same name

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I have two computers with the same name but in different workgroups. When I installed the first ine it appear in the console without any problems but, when I installed the second one, the first one disappear from the console and now i can't find it.

I thought the console identified computers by their IP address. Am I wrong? Will I have to change the name of one of the computers?

Thank you.

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    the first one disappear from the console and now i can't find it

    Where did you look for it :smileywink:?

    Seriously - most of the time I thought a computer had "disappeared" it was due to either being in a sub-view (that is: I had selected a group/the wrong group, something else than All computers was selected for View: or the view was sorted by something other than Computer name). I have not yet found out  (and haven't tried to) what makes a computer really "unique" - but once it's officially part of the Remote Management System it may change name, workgroup and/or IP address (joining a domain is a different story).

    Unless it's a trade secret I'd like to see a description of how a computers identity is determined (one thing I know is: if you "clone" an image after Sophos has been installed the computers have the same identity ...). And is it kept if Sophos is uninstalled and then reinstalled?

    You can (unsupported) look what's in the database with something like this:

    osql -E -S . -d SOPHOS4 -Q "SELECT ID,Name,DomainName,IPAddress,MessageSystemAddress,Deleted FROM ComputersAndDeletedComputers ORDER BY Name" -w 1200 -o C+dC.txt

    If you still can't find it ... I'll have to start thinking :smileyhappy:

    Christian

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    the first one disappear from the console and now i can't find it

    Where did you look for it :smileywink:?

    Seriously - most of the time I thought a computer had "disappeared" it was due to either being in a sub-view (that is: I had selected a group/the wrong group, something else than All computers was selected for View: or the view was sorted by something other than Computer name). I have not yet found out  (and haven't tried to) what makes a computer really "unique" - but once it's officially part of the Remote Management System it may change name, workgroup and/or IP address (joining a domain is a different story).

    Unless it's a trade secret I'd like to see a description of how a computers identity is determined (one thing I know is: if you "clone" an image after Sophos has been installed the computers have the same identity ...). And is it kept if Sophos is uninstalled and then reinstalled?

    You can (unsupported) look what's in the database with something like this:

    osql -E -S . -d SOPHOS4 -Q "SELECT ID,Name,DomainName,IPAddress,MessageSystemAddress,Deleted FROM ComputersAndDeletedComputers ORDER BY Name" -w 1200 -o C+dC.txt

    If you still can't find it ... I'll have to start thinking :smileyhappy:

    Christian

    :1512
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