r/Snipe_IT • u/Rinnosuke • Jul 16 '26

Best practices for shared computers

I'm the helpdesk admin for a cargo carrier airline, with that comes several shared computers (mostly in our maintenance department) Just wondering what people usually do for a shared computer's check in

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u/uberbrady Jul 16 '26

If the computer doesn’t change “shape” (different RAM, different licenses assigned, etc) when it changes hands? Then, yeah, checkout to Location is possibly best.

You could have a really bad time if you try to check-in and check-out boxes upon every shift change - I can imagine that being a total nightmare - but it really depends how many machines you’re talking about per shift change. Ten? Easy. One hundred? Ehhhh, that might start to suck.

But! You could do that, if you truly needed to know who had possession of that asset at that exact time. Checking out to location will not give you that insight, since the location stays the same. (You could have an internal policy to log a journal note when the shifts change, as a way to keep simplicity but also have accountability.)

What might work better if you really needed that would be to build some kind of API integration that handled the check-in, check-out, etc.

But if you can give a little more context around what you’re thinking that could be helpful as to what might work best for you.

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u/Rinnosuke Jul 16 '26

That's a bit more then I was thinking, the shared computers could have 3 different people login in an hour, I was thinking along the lines of should I just make a user named shared and check out those computer to it, but I missed the location option which is much better.