I am in the process of deploying 300+ XD1032 players. We did not record the MACs before shipping. Now the customer IT is requesting the MACs. Is there a bulk way to get the MACs remotely? I can't find the MAC anywhere in BA or our BSNEE interface.
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Alex Someone can login to the diagnostic web server of the unit and view the MAC address.
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^UD\_$ Couple more options:
you could use a BrightAuthor Live Text, that you would author to show the MAC address for several seconds, upon presentation startup, and then disappear. You would need to to populate a text field with a System Variable.
Local IT would then be able to power up the player and see the MAC address on the screen.
You could also have MAC shown at the bottom of the screen in small type, using a color that is very close to the background color.
This way most people would not notice it, but IT would know where to look for it.
A more advanced technique would be writing a BA plugin that writes the player ID and MAC address to the system log.
The log could then be downloaded from BSNEE but... Manually downloading 300 logs is no fun, so you could code the plugin to submit the information over http to Loggly.com or papertril.com. From there you should be able to export everything to a nice spreadsheet, and save the day.
Plugin coding, enables powerful solutions that otherwise would be impossible.
I hope that helped
Udi
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Allen H. Porter Very helpful. Thankyou!
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^UD\_$ The BSN API may be a better resource here, as it is not intrusive toward the deployed presentation.
Not sure whether possible, but it is worth exploring...
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