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General System Questions #94

Closed JimPowersDFL closed 5 years ago

JimPowersDFL commented 5 years ago

Hello,

As I am new to DisplayMonkey, I have a couple of other questions outside of SSRS (thus the separate post).

  1. I can see that when a display is registered, it is storing the IP address of the display. While that is unique for the time the display is on, I'm concerned about when the display gets turned off. Is a MAC address stored somewhere behind the scenes or should I have our IT folks reserve IP addresses for each display to insure it always gets the same address?

  2. I'm assuming everything I'm doing on the management side is only updating the database. Is there ever a case that the file system on the IIS server is modified? Essentially, I want to know if a simple snapshot of the VM is sufficient once/day for backup purposes.

DisplayMonkey commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Regarding 1). By design, internet browsers have no access to computer hardware. So, MAC address is not possible with simple javascript. Browser extensions/plugins are required to go beyond that limit. Reserving IP is one method. Another alternative is browser cookies. Check DM documentation how to choose either method.

Regarding 2). No files are modified from DMM portal, only the database. The only exception is custom styles, where you modify custom.css file in DMP application.

JimPowersDFL commented 5 years ago

Thank you for your responses. I actually talked with our networking folks yesterday and they will setup IP reservations by device so that takes care of #1.

2 is the answer I was hoping for.

Thank you!