A way to support filtering of known devices (e.g. printers, laptops in the library)

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A way to support filtering of known devices (e.g. printers, laptops in the library) #74

Open jadudm opened 2 years ago

jadudm commented 2 years ago

Background

Libraries might want to filter out devices that they know are "theirs," and should not appear in the data.

It covers the following stories:

As a library IT director/staff member, I want to enter in device IDs to be ignored.

We'll know we're done when...

[ ] When a user can enter or report a MAC address to be ignored.
[ ] Sensors can pull that data for their FCFS id, and maintain a local filter list to apply before anonymization.

Questions

[ ] How would users enter these identifiers? On the Directus site?
[ ] Who maintains that list? The local library tech people? The state level?

sknep commented 2 years ago

This probably assumes a lookup table for devices. What needs to be stored for each device?

The fcfsID already has state information and... something else? In the naming convention. Would we want to associate it with any other information? MAC address is separate from this ID.

City/County? Timezone or Lat/Long? Serial Number, Creation date?

At the very least, I'd like an ID and State (though we can infer the later from the ID if necessary).

cantsin commented 2 years ago

Great points!

Yes, we have a "heartbeat" table planned where we can store this kind of metadata. Like device type (Windows, Raspberry Pi, etc) and its associated FSCS id. We could also enter ignored MAC addresses in there.

Other than that, library data is open so we can either replicate or (my preference) look up on demand. For instance, https://www.imls.gov/search-compare/details.html?fscs_id=GA0027 gives you the library data for that specific FSCS -- probably way more data than we want/need but it's all there, hopefully.

The data is already present or can be derived, I guess the question is -- which bits of information do we need/want to show users?

sknep commented 2 years ago

Oh I really like that there's already a way to look up library data on imls.gov. Will we need a separate API key for that? I agree, that seems preferable.

Seems like we'd only need to store device-specific information, then. Hardware stuff :)