Report on clients based on boundary

Question

Hi,
I am trying to put together a report that will list the location based off of the boundary. We need this in order to charge back the remote branches in the company for licensing costs. I'm actually a bit surprised the canned reports don't already include
this field in all reports.
Almost all of the remote locations are setup to use IP Subnet as a boundary. IP ranges are used for the locations where we have multiple network VLANs for servers however.
I have successfully created a report that will achieve this goal using the following query:
Select distinct
       v_R_System.Netbios_Name0 AS [Computer Name],
       v_BoundaryInfo.DisplayName AS [Location]
FROM   v_R_System
        left join v_RA_System_IPSubnets ON v_R_System.ResourceID = v_RA_System_IPSubnets.ResourceID
        left join v_BoundaryInfo ON v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0 = v_BoundaryInfo.Value
The main problem with this is that it doesn't work 100% of the time because sometimes the value for v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0 is missing in the database. When the value is missing from the database it simply shows nothing in the location field for
the computer.
Another issue is this query doesn't include the boundaries that use IP address ranges. This results in showing nothing in the location field for those computers.
My thought of trying to fix the ones that don't have a v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0 value in the database was to try and use the IP address obtained via hardware inventory (v_GS_NETWORK_ADAPTER_CONFIGUR.IPAddress0) to match against the boundary. The
problem here is I don't know what to use in the query to match only the first 3 octets of the IP address to the boundary address. And, is it possible to include both this IP Address look up along with the look up against the v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0
value? And, is it possible to include another look up, in this same query, for the IP address ranges?
Please let me know if I need to explain this better for clarity. This was the best way I could think to describe what I'm trying to do and my thoughts on how I think it could be fixed.
Paul

Answer 1

In the query I provided in the original post I'm matching the value in v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0 to the value in v_BoundaryInfo.Value, then showing the value from v_BoundaryInfo.DisplayName in the output of the report. That works for those that have
a boundary entry using an IP Subnet.
Here's some sample output from my query to show as an example. As you can see, some have NULL showing for the location. Those are the ones that are missing the v_RA_System_IPSubnets.IP_Subnets0 value in the database or have an IP subnet that is defined using
an IP address range instead of IP subnet for the boundary:
Computer Name    Location
WS-3DRSW             Branch - FL_Orlando
WS-DGEWS             Branch - CA_Ontario
WS-HWAXE3            NULL
WS-D6FW2E            Branch - OK_Tulsa
WS-3HWBSW           NULL
*The computer names listed here are fake but they do follow our naming convention throughout the company!
Naming conventions aren't by site so that wouldn't work.
I'm not trying to statically define each IP address in the report as you are suggesting because that would be too hard to upkeep/manage. Especially if I had multiple reports!
I had thought about the AD sites as being my only other option right after I posted this. We don't have domain controller at very many of our remote locations so we don't have them setup as sites in AD. I'm thinking though that I might have to go ahead and
do that, even though they don't have domain controllers at each location.
Paul