I know this has been a “feature, not a bug” for a while with Jamf App Catalog titles but it’s becoming enough of a problem that I would REALLY like a better solution. The problem:
- Macs fall into a Smart Group being used for scoping of Jamf App Catalog titles
- Jamf App Catalog scoping does not reliably update with those recently added Macs unless you toggle the deployment off and back on again to force it to recalculate. (Count is differing by 100 or more Macs for some titles in our instance today.)
- Jamf Pro lacks any way to alert us that an App Catalog title needs refreshing, so we have to monitor every title’s deployment count manually to see if any of them needs a reset.
I started a support “ticket” (i.e. JamfBot conversation) about this just in case there was a new checkbox or something somewhere I wasn’t aware of, and it informs me that everything is functioning as intended as far as documented solutions. I’m in line for a human support agent to see if they have any pointers or undocumented solutions but thought I’d see if anyone here had something as well.
I’m most likely going to end up trying to write something with a bunch of API calls to:
- Grab the device count from said Smart Group
- Grab the list of our App Catalog titles and their deployment counts
- Compare those counts and tell me which ones don’t match
Maybe even also make it toggle the deployment(s) off and back on again for those titles, if there’s an API endpoint for that. Dunno, I haven’t actually started digging into it yet. It’s nearing the end of my Friday, so this is a project for Monday Thom if nobody else has built something similar for me to appropriate.
Thanks in advance. :)