[SunRay-Users] Subsets of DTU's, or something?

[Michael Jinks]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:57:27AM -0800, Craig Bender wrote:
> If you have one fog, then it's hard to use things like AMGH to redirect 
> DTU's to a task specific fog.
>
> However, it's very easy to put an if/then script that looks at any number 
> of things from the MAC of the DTU, the token of a smart card if used, an 
> entry in the SR Datastore in the location or other field that you can key 
> off of to do something different.

Wonderful.  Where would that script need to go along the Sun Ray/Kiosk
chain?  And does it get that information from the environment or would it
need to query the datastore somehow?  Is there a doc that explains the
right way to do this, or should I just go hacking around in Sun Ray's
guts?

Thanks,
-m



> Michael Jinks wrote:
>> Hi List.
>> Based on my own research I think the answer to my question is going to
>> be "no", but I wanted to check before I tell that to my boss.
>> We have a brand new Sun Ray deployment (4.0, planning an upgrade to 4.1
>> RSN), serving Windows desktops via the Windows connector to several
>> different public labs and classrooms across our campus.  So far so
>> good.
>> My team doesn't own DHCP, and can't get the x-window-manager record
>> added, so we have to rely on the sunray-config-servers DNS entry
>> pointing to our FOG.  Eh, but so far so good.
>> Now we have a hurry-up request, which won't be the last, to temporarily
>> re-purpose one of our computer classrooms to display a custom
>> application for participants in a study.  The application is simple, I
>> think, just a full-screen browser pointed at a particular URL.  The hard
>> part is redirecting one subset of our DTU's to get a different session
>> type from everybody else.  Seems that as long as we have one FOG
>> covering the whole campus, there's no way to distinguish one list of
>> DTU's from another; they're all just going to get the same type of
>> session.
>> Have I missed something?  Is there a way to do what we want given our
>> present layout?
>> Thanks,
>> --Michael
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