Is it possible to reference a machine in Active Directory within an issue?

[Ralph Drake]

I am currently working to migrate my team's project management workflow from Excel to Jira. During my research for this move, I have run into one major roadblock. The projects assigned to my team usually involve receiving a list of affected machines identified by hostname. We then populate rows in an Excel sheet to create "issues." 

The problem I have is as follows: when using Excel, we have a "Master List" sheet within our workbook that associates machine hostnames with their owner's data (i.e. full name, email address, unique user ID). When we receive a list of affected devices, we create a new sheet within the workbook, then populate the rows using the hostnames and a series of VLOOKUPs to the "Master List." The final product is a sheet with one "Issue" per row, which we then use to contact users, install/uninstall software, etc.

We usually have the following columns in our worksheets:

• Hostname
• User Full Name
• User ID
• User Email
• Company
• Issue Status (i.e. "not assigned," "on hold," "completed")
• Assigned Tech
• Notes
• ServiceNow Ticket Number

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As part of migrating to Jira, I would like to find a way to reference these machines in AD from within Jira issues with a custom field or something similar. The best solution I've come up with so far is to add a custom field text input that stores the hostname, but this still requires an intermediate step of opening dsa.msc, initiating a search, and copy/pasting the hostname into the search field.

All the research/Googling I do returns results about synchronizing Users between Jira and AD, but not information about referencing machines that are active within AD from a Jira issue. Is there a solution for this problem I'm missing?

For reference, my organization is using Jira Software Cloud and Team Managed Projects.