I attended JNUC in both 2023 and 2024 and finally have got around to implementing Installomator as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J6fTQXIwU. Lots of people were talking about it and in 2024 was convinced to at least try it. The implmentation in the video uses two Smart groups.
- Smart group targetting "Patch Reporting" for the targetted application. For example, the criteria would be Patch Reporting: Google Chrome is less than Latest Version.
- Smart group targetting the above group because you can't target policies using Patch Reporting directly as per the video.
The first group using Patch Reporting updates just fine. My issue is the 2nd group does not update correctly. When I initially save it the numbers match but after testing by updating an app the 2nd group will not update to reflect the number of the 1st group. The only way to update it is to go in and edit and resave the group. Then it will update correctly until the next time it doesn't.
I contacted Jamf Support about this and they said it's a long standing PI. I don't think he said the number.
Has anyone had this issue when implementing Installomator for patching? Based on this I may just decide not to use it for patch updates, but then that kind of defeats the purpose of using Installomator for time savings.
Maybe there's a workaround that I hadn't considered. Thought I would put it out there to see what the experience has been.
