Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field
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In the current release of Snipe-IT the only item that is required to be unique is the Asset Tag field, this is a bit of a gotcha if you have lazy coworkers.
If your assets have serial numbers that are unique to your organization (all of mine are) you would assume that the serial number must be unique in your environment.
Apparently Snipe-IT doesn't check the serial number, so you can end up having duplicated Assets, that have the same serial number (and are thus the same device).
This is a big issue in my world as with lazy co-workers or just the ever round-about handling of devices as people come and go devices get added under a new asset tag, but have the same serials (obviously an issue if only 1 device has that serial number).
I created a github feature request to have Snipe add a flag to require serial numbers be unique to an organization (full company support would allow the flag to be set per company)
If you think serials must be unique, go and vote for the feature request.
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Was this mentioned on Snipe-IT gitter chat too?
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I think it should be optional on/off requirement. The likelihood that a serial is not unique is low, but still could happen.
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@black3dynamite said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
Was this mentioned on Snipe-IT gitter chat too?
Yes.
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
I think it should be optional on/off requirement. The likelihood that a serial is not unique is low, but still could happen.
Agreed, that is what my FR request.
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@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@black3dynamite said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
Was this mentioned on Snipe-IT gitter chat too?
Yes.
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
I think it should be optional on/off requirement. The likelihood that a serial is not unique is low, but still could happen.
Agreed, that is what my FR request.
Cool. I will go vote for it now.
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Sounds like any field should have this ability, not restricted to serial numbers.
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@dashrender said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
Sounds like any field should have this ability, not restricted to serial numbers.
I used the Asset Tag field for the company asset ID #, and the serial number field as the Dell Tag #.
The should all be unique.
I did a huge import and discovered some duplicates, but only a few and seems like they were typos or mistakes... i just added a
-1or-2after the tag# to keep records straight.But yeah, I see the point, both should be unique really.
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For anyone interested this feature was added to the master branch a few days ago, I have it enabled and it works as intended.
We had to generate a report of assets and serial numbers and found a handful of them, which we just cleaned up.
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@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
For anyone interested this feature was added to the master branch a few days ago, I have it enabled and it works as intended.
We had to generate a report of assets and serial numbers and found a handful of them, which we just cleaned up.
Awesome
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@dustinb3403 Which version/build is it part of?
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@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 Which version/build is it part of?
Snipe-IT version v4.5.0 build 3701 (gbf1e742df)
Software License AGPL3
PHP Version 7.1.19
Laravel Version 5.4.35 -
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
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@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
They must use the self-hosted version as the testing grounds for any major issues, that or are you expected to request system updates regularly?
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@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
They must use the self-hosted version as the testing grounds for any major issues, that or are you expected to request system updates regularly?
Honestly, I don't know how they do that. I am pretty sure that I have had to request each upgrade. I think I started on 3.6 or something. That was about a year ago. When I started using it, the support for self-hosted was slightly more than having it hosted by them. So, I decided make it easy on myself and save a few bucks.
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@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
They must use the self-hosted version as the testing grounds for any major issues, that or are you expected to request system updates regularly?
Honestly, I don't know how they do that. I am pretty sure that I have had to request each upgrade. I think I started on 3.6 or something. That was about a year ago. When I started using it, the support for self-hosted was slightly more than having it hosted by them. So, I decided make it easy on myself and save a few bucks.
Do you have to ask to be updated to a specific release?
And updating the self hosted version for me is 1 command for Snipe-IT, while the host is just a another sudo yum upgrade
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@dustinb3403 - I have just said update to the latest release.
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@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
They must use the self-hosted version as the testing grounds for any major issues, that or are you expected to request system updates regularly?
Honestly, I don't know how they do that. I am pretty sure that I have had to request each upgrade. I think I started on 3.6 or something. That was about a year ago. When I started using it, the support for self-hosted was slightly more than having it hosted by them. So, I decided make it easy on myself and save a few bucks.
Do you have to ask to be updated to a specific release?
And updating the self hosted version for me is 1 command for Snipe-IT, while the host is just a another sudo yum upgrade
It should be upgraded automatically.
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@black3dynamite said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
@dustinb3403 - Thanks. I am going to ask for an upgrade on my hosted version, as I am still on 4.4.1.
They must use the self-hosted version as the testing grounds for any major issues, that or are you expected to request system updates regularly?
Honestly, I don't know how they do that. I am pretty sure that I have had to request each upgrade. I think I started on 3.6 or something. That was about a year ago. When I started using it, the support for self-hosted was slightly more than having it hosted by them. So, I decided make it easy on myself and save a few bucks.
Do you have to ask to be updated to a specific release?
And updating the self hosted version for me is 1 command for Snipe-IT, while the host is just a another sudo yum upgrade
It should be upgraded automatically.
Technically I could have automatic backups and upgrades as well, but it would just be a scheduled event.
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It could be automatic, but I might be jumping the gun on the roll-out schedule.
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@wrx7m said in Snipe-IT Admins and Users - Serial Number as a required unique field:
It could be automatic, but I might be jumping the gun on the roll-out schedule.
This is very possible, since I'm self hosted, whenever the GH page shows an update I pull them down. Which of course could cause issues but I like to be current.
