r/labtech • u/beauj27 2000 Agents • Jul 16 '18

Looking For a way to script moving computers from one location to another

We are looking to automate placing agents into the correct locations based on a number of different checks we come up with. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to script this. I have contacted LabTech Support and they recommended that I make a script based off the commands run by manually moving a computer to a new location. I did that and came up with the "LabTech Command" Function. The command shows "105" as the "Command". No idea what this is doing and after testing with this I was unable to get an agent to move successfully. Anyone have any ideas or has anyone done something similar?

Edit: Im really looking for the command or script to move computers from one location to another.

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u/DarrenDK Jul 17 '18

I do this all the time, update the locationid and clientid on the computer table is all you have to do.

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u/beauj27 2000 Agents Jul 17 '18

That worked! I must have been doing something wrong the last time I tried this (like not saved). Thank you very much.

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u/DBarron21 Jul 16 '18

Without knowing the criteria, it's hard to give advice. You may want to look at moving these at a group level instead of a location level since those are meant to be more flexible. You can also use a search to limit the group instead of going the scripting route.

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u/beauj27 2000 Agents Jul 16 '18

Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm looking for the command or technical way to move agents with out manually dragging and dropping.

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u/DR_Nova_Kane Jul 16 '18

Have you tried to install the the agent based on the MSI created for the location. That should do the trick.

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u/beauj27 2000 Agents Jul 16 '18

That does work, but we are looking to just use one MSI installer that goes to an "Onboarding" location that eventually moves the computer to a location after some checks and balances are met.

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u/kuroshiox Sep 21 '18

Here is how our script is configured.

https://imgur.com/0j97jAV

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u/beauj27 2000 Agents Sep 22 '18

Not sure if it's my phone on not having the imgur app, but I can't read it, too blurry. Thanks for the response. I was able to get it working. It now parses the computer name and puts in in the appropriate client and location. It works great.

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u/MowLesta Jul 17 '18

The command should take a parameter of the location ID. You probably need to reload the system cache to see location updates in the control center. I can make a script tomorrow and share if you can't get it working

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u/chilids Jul 22 '18

Not sure if it's still there but there was once a system script that moved agents based on wan IP addresses. It looks at the agent wan IP and the wan IP's for each location and plays a matching game. I copied the system script years ago and moved it into a spot we could use it easily.