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we have been having some issues where the configuration profile for the wifi settings are getting corrupted and iOS devices have to have the profile removed and re-applied. its a simple enough thing to work around. I've set the wifi profile to exclude a certain group. all one has to do is connect to an open wifi network, (i use our guest network) add the problem device to the group to remove the profile, wait a couple seconds, and then remove it from the group to have the profile re-apply. simple enough, but something a non-jss-admin user is capable of.



my goal is to put a script into self service that simply prompts for a serial number, then automatically adds and then removes it from the group.



i haven't used the api before and am not sure where to start



thanks



Joe

@jchurch



These are good starting points



https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=10188



http://macbrained.org/the-jss-rest-api-for-everyone/



https://bryson3gps.wordpress.com/the-unofficial-jss-api-docs/

so i got my script to mostly work. I'm using an extension attribute and a smart group. it works fine if the serial number is in the script, i want it to popup and ask the user to enter the serial number. here's what i have so far.



#!/bin/sh





YourAPIUsername="username"

YourAPIPassword="password"

jssurl="jssurl"

serialnumber="<manual input>"

FIX="/path/to/FIX.xml"

DONE="/path/to/DONE.xml"





curl -k -v -u $YourAPIUsername:$YourAPIPassword $jssurl/JSSResource/mobiledevices/serialnumber/$serialnumber/subset/extensionattributes -T "$FIX" -X PUT

sleep 3

curl -k -v -u $YourAPIUsername:$YourAPIPassword $jssurl/JSSResource/mobiledevices/serialnumber/$serialnumber/subset/extensionattributes -T "$DONE" -X PUT


these are my xml files:



DONE.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<mobile_device>
<extension_attributes> <attribute> <name>WiFi Fix</name> <type>String</type> <value>DONE</value> </attribute>
</extension_attributes>
</mobile_device>



FIX.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<mobile_device>
<extension_attributes> <attribute> <name>WiFi Fix</name> <type>String</type> <value>FIX</value> </attribute>
</extension_attributes>
</mobile_device>

You could try using an Applescript call to ask for input, but its not always 100% reliable when run from policies out of the JSS. Generally, when run from Self Service they should work. Its more an issue when run from a recurring trigger for example.



Example:



#!/bin/sh



SERIAL=$(/usr/bin/osascript << EOF

tell application "System Events"

try

set Serial to text returned of (display dialog "Enter a serial number" buttons {"Cancel", "Enter"} default button 2 default answer "")

end try

end tell

EOF)



if [ "$SERIAL" != "" ]; then

    echo "User input serial: $SERIAL"

else

   echo "User canceled. Exiting"

   exit 0

fi

worked like a charm. thanks

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