[SGVLUG] How to manage DNS for DHCP-assigned clients?

[Emerson, Tom]

> -----Original Message----- Of Adam Compton
> 
> I work at a small private school with ~200 client computers scattered 
> around the campus. They all receive dynamic IP addresses from 
> the DHCP server we have running.
> 
> The question I have is this: how would you all keep track of where a 
> given computer was on the network, so that it could be administered 
> remotely and programmatically?

Windows or Linux clients?

If windows, you might want to look into "SMS", which is Microsoft's
"System Management Server", which explicitly solves this problem.
[disclaimer, "or so I'm lead to believe..." -- I've never actually used
it myself]

> For instance, pushing out a new version of a certain configuration
> file to each computer as soon as it comes on the network,

What about pulling it from the clients?  Either in "if-up" [for Linux]
or the user's "logon.bat" file [for windows using domain servers]  the
script can query the server to see of what the server holds is "newer"
than what it has, and if so, pulls it. [or always pulls it if you're
paranoid...]