Does anyone have tips for creating some sort of on going report or saved advanced search for computers where their Hard Drive is nearing capacity? Ideally I would like to limit this to a specific computer lab we have on campus. Just wondering if this is possible.
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How to create Advanced Search/ Report for computers with a full HD?
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+17I have a smart group with this, linked to a policy that pops up a message top say 'less than 20GB free' adjust accordingly... same will work for an advance search..
Criteria - Boot Drive Available MB - less than - 20000
+8I'm guessing that big Home folders are causing problems for other users, I ran into this and built a Smart Group where is a Member of the Labs Macs and Boot Drive Percentage Full > 95% for triggering an automated clean up, deleted all Home folders apart from the logged in user.
You could do it with a search
And Boot Drive Available for targeting macOS upgrades
+6Unfortunately Boot Drive is not quite reliable indicator anymore.
I would suggest create Extension Attribute (input type - script, data type - integer) and use something like this to check the percentage of Data volume used (you can put there any other volume if you want):
#!/bin/sh
free=`df -m /System/Volumes/Data/ | awk '{getline; print $5}'| sed 's/%//'`
echo "<result>"${free}"</result>"
You can create a smart group and scope it then.
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