Clients Identity

[JED2021]

When I list clients

Windows 10 systems come up as the HOST NAME

MACbook Pros.

44aec9d1-a7f6-4756-ac97-2dd741e84b2e

or

MBPUSERNAME

What is Meraki looking for to resolve or relate the name to the host?

[Ryan_Miles]

It's due to MDNS https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Rename_a_Client's_Hostname. Unfortunately anything that sends MDNS (mostly Macs, but other OS'es can too) the name will show up as the long MDNS string.

[Philip D'Ath]

Thinking about this sideways, can you configure the name that MDNS sends from the client side?

[JED2021 · Accepted solution]

Yes

[JED2021]

Is this a MACOS change that all of a sudden the identity of the MACBOOK Pro is unusable?

Does the Jump to MX16.15 possibly catch up with MACOS upgrade or Windows 11?