Hm, that is an interesting case. Seems when I pipe something to grep the exit code is not what 'man grep' promises - I always get '0'.

But why do do you need a EA for this? The MDM already knows which Profiles are installed. So just base your smart group on the criteria 'Profile Identifier' 'is' 'com.meraki.sm.mdm'.

@mcgace

You could try something like this....
Instead of using the if command to do the true/false on the error code return value. Assign the return of the command to a variable and use the if to validate against that.

In this case, I'm just using a count on the return from grep.

#!/bin/bash



PROFILE_ID="com.meraki.sm.mdm"

profileCheck=$(sudo /usr/bin/profiles -P | /usr/bin/grep -c -i $PROFILE_ID)





if [[ $profileCheck == "1" ]] 

then

    # Profile is present

    echo "<result>True</result>"

    exit 1

elif [[ $profileCheck == "0" ]]

then

    # Profile isn't there, need to install

    echo "<result>False</result>"

    exit 0

elif [[ $profileCheck -gt "1" ]]

then

    #Profile count greater than 1 - potential issue.

    echo "<result>Remediate</result>"

else

    #Something went wrong.

    echo "<result>Unknown - Error</result>"

fi

@mcgace Have you tried to comment out the exit lines, especially the exit 1?

As you said it works in Terminal but JSS may get that exit 1 as a failure and not send the info upstream (not sure as I always end my EAs scripts with exit 0).

#!/bin/bash



PROFILE_ID="com.meraki.sm.mdm"



if ( /usr/bin/profiles -P | /usr/bin/grep -q $PROFILE_ID ); then

    # Profile is present

    echo "<result>True</result>"

    #exit 1

else

    # Profile isn't there, need to install

    echo "<result>False</result>"

    #exit 0

fi



exit 0

Regards

Thanks guys, all valid responses and they do work as solutions. @mschroder was right, I am making extra work for no reason, so I based Smart Group on Profile Identifier