The main things I wanted were the computer name and IP address. As for the purpose, pretty much just for logging purposes. The remote console we have to manage the thin clients is extremely limited and the data contained within it is not easily extracted.

This would make things easier for inventory purposes to track hardware location by the subnet. Also to track which user/s is using a particular thin client. Tracking the user is easy via Terminal Server login script, but associating that user with a particular computer name (thin client) is the hard part.