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Men & Mice, The LAN Database, or The Evil Central Repository of Stupid, is the central IT Service database of devices that use the campus network (excluding NAS and eduroam devices). They will set you on fire if you put a device into production without telling them it exists. Create a Footprints (using either https://footprints.york.ac.uk or emailing itsupport@york.ac.uk) that looks similar to the following:
Men & Mice, The LAN Database, or The Evil Central Repository of Stupid, is the central IT Service database of devices that use the campus network (excluding NAS and eduroam devices). They will set you on fire if you put a device into production without telling them it exists. Create a Footprints (using either https://footprints.york.ac.uk or emailing itsupport@york.ac.uk) that looks similar to the following:


<quote>
Hi,
Hi,
   
   
Could I please have the following new devices added to the LAN Database as follows please:
Could I have a new device added to the LAN Database as follows please:
   
   
Object name: production
Object name: (DNS prefix, e.g. uryserver3)
 
Machine type: Unsupported Office PC
Machine type: Unsupported Office PC
Operating System: Windows XP
 
Department/contact: Students Union / Lloyd Wallis
Operating System: (OS and Version e.g. FreeBSD 10.0)
 
Department/contact: Students Union / (Your Name)
 
Location: V/URY
Location: V/URY
Interface type: Ethernet
Interface type: Ethernet
MAC address: 00:50:04:41:05:36
 
MAC address: (The MAC address)
 
Attachment Point: ury
Attachment Point: ury
IP address: 144.32.64.178
Gateway: 144.32.64.161
Object name: wallpc1
Machine type: Unsupported Office PC
Operating System: Windows XP
Department/contact: Students Union / Lloyd Wallis
Location: V/URY
Interface type: Ethernet
MAC address: 00:19:d1:89:36:a9
Attachment Point: ury
IP address: 144.32.64.179
Gateway: 144.32.64.161


Object name: wallpc2
IP address: 144.32.64.xxx (or 10.64.160.xxx)
Machine type: Unsupported Office PC
 
Operating System: Windows 7
Gateway: 144.32.64.161 (or 10.64.160.xxx)
Department/contact: Students Union / Lloyd Wallis
 
Location: V/URY
 
Interface type: Ethernet
(Your Signoff Here)
MAC address: 00:19:d1:89:2c:79
Attachment Point: ury
IP address: 144.32.64.180
Gateway: 144.32.64.161
Cheers,
Lloyd
</quote>


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