Re: Recommendations on uniquely identifying a system.
Re: Recommendations on uniquely identifying a system.
- Subject: Re: Recommendations on uniquely identifying a system.
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:55:27 -0800
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Tom Fortmann
<email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations on the best or most current way of uniquely
> identifying a system when registering with a server application. To date
> I've found three pieces of data that might do the job:
>
> 1. Primary MAC Address
> 2. IOPlatformSerialNumber
> 3. IOPlatformUUID value
>
> The MAC address and serial number are both well documented in the technical
> note TN1103.
I would follow the recommendations of TN1103. The MAC address blended
with platform serial number (or just one of those) should cover your
needs well enough.
-Shawn
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