Feature req

I'm new to Casper. Would you be willing to share what you're entering for the Extension Attribute? I would guess it includes sysctl hw.model, but I'm not quite sure how to format the script to display that value correctly.

Thanks.

Joe Friedel, iCIT

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Andersen Library, Room 2003F

(262) 472-1658

heres what i did....

#!/bin/bash

echo "<result>`system_profiler | grep 'Model Identifier:' | awk '{print $3}'`<result>"

Do you mean have both "MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)" AND MacBookPro8,2? On May 19, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Eric Winkelhake wrote:

If so, I agree...

precisely.


We created an Extension Attribute to show the Model Identifier.

Don

good call...i just set that up. didn't even occur to me to do that, thanks.


I got a few off list requests to post the Extension Attribute...here it is...I stole the idea from an April post (thanks to Sean Gallagher!). I tweaked it a bit....

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Stolen from a Sean Gallagher script! :)

Devices=system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep -e "Model Identifier" | awk '{print $3}'

echo "<result>$Devices</result>"

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slightly shorter:

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Model Identifier/ {print $NF}'

Hi Nate,

This is awesome! Ya know, it's like the old school uphill bike racers used to say when discussing low gear ratios...the smaller the better! :)

Pardon me while I copy/paste into JSS...

Don

easier still, install the latest version of facter and get the same fact like so:

facter sp_machine_model

my result: MacBookPro7,1

os x pkgs are here: https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/

puppet depends on facter to generate "facts" about nodes, but you can use it as a standalone utility, too.

so you could simplify the extension attribute like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "<result>$(/usr/bin/facter sp_machine_model)</result>"

run facter with no arguments to see all the stats it generates.

nice.

Going for shorter... :)
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Nate St. Germain <nate at techsuperpowers.com>wrote:

sysctl hw.model | awk '{print $2}'

- Justin

Nice!!! Tested fine...i'll update JSS mañana. :)
Justin Rummel wrote:

Don