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is there any way to create a dashboard which shows all apps installed in a user machine from Jamf

  • November 21, 2022
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Hi Team,
wanted to check if there is any way to create a dashboard in Jamf Pro which shows all apps installed in a user machine and status of apps (like running/not running/last opened/modified)


Regards,
Yaswanth

Best answer by AJPinto

You would need a 3rd party tool like splunk to create custom dashboards. 

 

The only way to view installed Apps on a device is in its inventory record, and only apps installed in the /Applications directories. 

 

status of apps (like running/not running/last opened/modified)

This is something that is beyond Apples MDM Framework. Its not that JAMF cannot have extension attributes written to gather this information for a few critical applications, but this is well beyond what JAMF should be doing. I recommend looking in to security tools for this.

 

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    AJPinto
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    • AJPinto
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    • November 21, 2022

    You would need a 3rd party tool like splunk to create custom dashboards. 

     

    The only way to view installed Apps on a device is in its inventory record, and only apps installed in the /Applications directories. 

     

    status of apps (like running/not running/last opened/modified)

    This is something that is beyond Apples MDM Framework. Its not that JAMF cannot have extension attributes written to gather this information for a few critical applications, but this is well beyond what JAMF should be doing. I recommend looking in to security tools for this.

     

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    • November 23, 2022

    I'm sure you could create something that uses multiple Jamf API calls and use Excel to merge them.

    But other than that I have a simple script to show Application Name it's status and it's last used date (if it's any use to you).

     

    #!/bin/sh

    RED='\\033[0;31m'
    GREEN='\\033[0;32m'

    for AppName in /Applications/*
    do
    LastUsed=$(mdls "$AppName" -name kMDItemLastUsedDate | awk '{print $3,$4}')
    if [[ "$LastUsed" == "not find" || "$LastUsed" == "could not" || "$LastUsed" == "(null) " ]]; then
    LastUsed=""
    else
    AppName=$(echo $AppName | cut -c 15- | cut -d "." -f -1)
    AppStatus=$(pgrep -x "$AppName")
    if [[ "$AppStatus" > 0 ]]; then
    AppStatus="Running"
    Colour=$GREEN
    else
    AppStatus="Stopped"
    Colour=$RED
    fi
    echo -e ${Colour}$AppName: $AppStatus: $LastUsed
    fi
    done

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