Renaming a computer to the same as it's asset tag?

[EugeneDisc]

Hi there guys and girls,

Im trying to create a job that will rename my machines to it's asset tag number. The tokens provided with the configuration job does not contain a token for the asset tag.
Any ideas how i can do this?

I am using DS 6.9 SP4...

Thanks
Eugene

[Edward Tippelt]

If the asset tag is in the bios then you need a bit of WMI code to read it
Something like this:

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colEnclosures = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure",,48)
   
For Each colEnclosure in colEnclosures
 strAssetID = "NULL"
 strAssetID = colEnclosure.SMBIOSAssetTag
Next
   
If strAssetID = "NULL" then  
 msgbox "NO ASSET TAG SET!!" 
 wscript.quit
End if
  
' Strip out unwanted spaces
   
strAssetID = rtrim(ltrim(strAssetID)) 
Msgbox "Current Asset Tag in Bios is: " & strAssetIDstrcomputer = "."

[Migration User]

Would it be possible to do the reverse l need to change the asset tag to the computer name l can do individual machines usin HPCM but l need to automate into the deployment job dont fancy doing 1500 machines one at a time any help would be apreciated

ANDY K