Am I stuck not being able to identify users with Insight Discovery

[Ste404]

Hi all,

Just looking at Insight Discovery and have come up with a deal breaker I think.

The user information is returned as hostname/firstname which is what I log into my machine as but there isn't anything else I can come up with that would differentiate me as steven to another steven who may be logged into their machine.

host1/steven

host2/steven

both show correctly but it is basically impossible for me to find any sort of way to map that back to an employee object type and related employee objects.

Is there anything I can do or am I stuck firmly with this one.

Thanks.

[Ste404 · Accepted solution]

I think the failing I have here is basically using workgroups for the networking and not any sort of AD backbone - thus not having the need for a unique login onto the local machine.

[Craig Castle-Mead]

Hey @Ste404 -  I think you've answered your own question. If your usernames on a computer aren't unique, the system that reports on usernames by machine cannot be unique either. 

If your machine logins were tied to AD, you'd be forced to use UPN to login to the machine, and AD would enforce uniqueness the UPN.

CCM

[Ste404]

Thanks @Craig Castle-Mead I was quietly hoping someone might have some really obscure trick to try.

If only each login was created unique, even in the workgroup environment, then it could be a mapped field back to employees and then have the 'User' field accessible from within there for the mapping back to customer.

The world of 'what-if'

cheers