Multihomed Server / asset counting

[raymondjt]

Hi,
my customer has about 10 phy servers and mostly each server has 5 to 10 nics (ports).
Addtionaly the virtual servers have 2 - 4 nics also....
This way we get a lots of assets and the license count is very high!
And there might be several paths to a server, but it is still only ONE object (asset?).
Any unique identifier?

Is there any way, that the asset license counting for multihomed servers can be handled like switches?
Switches are one asset with several ports / interfaces....

Thanks
Raymond

[raymondjt]

I found out, that if the asset is a Windows host, the unigue identifier is realy used (takes a while) and is the Windows hostname.

Bad news, if the asset is non-Windows (switches, printers, linux, firewall, etc) THEN the unique idetifier is mostly the mac address found with the network scan.
In case of a linux based firewall, which mostly does have more than one interface / mac address, then each interface is a seperate asset.

Okay, if you don't care about the license count, the most work is, you have a lot of different assets, even it is actually one asset to manage!!!

Please rethink the policy and/or think about some kind of merge possiblity, that you can tell Lansweeper that this one and this one and this one are THIS one (together).

THX
Raymond