Absolutely optional but the only challenge would be adding this to all views
That would be a lot of work but I don't see a way around it and I'm hoping that someone can prove me otherwise.
I like the idea of the location and system status but I personaly don't like using the manual feilds, to be honest I don't like having to update anything manually. Too many people forget to update this stuff and thats when it becomes inconsistent and an issue. The more that can be automated the better imo.
I discussed mapping a location to network subnet months ago, not that I would expect anything to happen right away, but it's certainly something that would be helpful - [url]http://www.open-audit.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2569[/url] I started to mess around with it but I just haven't had much time to spend customizing OA lately. You could just add a case statement to audit.vbs for each subnet and location and then just have it written to the DB. At that point we would have to add it to whatever views we wanted and then we could create those filters you mentioned from there. But I guess this is where the query page mentioned in OA2 will come in handy. Show me all systems WHERE location LIKE philadelphia, pa. The map on the other hand would be a bit more work...