Macs in our environment are scheduled to check in every 30 minutes, but I have one that is running the same policy job 3-4 times a minute. I've temporarily disabled the policy to halt the flood, but how can I correct the check-in period on the problem Mac?
+15What is the policy trigger and execution frequency set to, and what is the policy actually doing?
+6Policy trigger is at startup, and Recurring Check-in which is every 30 minutes.
The policy is for our OS X 10.8 machines and ensures our required security settings are on the machine. It runs 3 pkgs, 1 script, sets management account password, and forces the computer to submit inventory to JSS. Target is Smart Computer Group containing 10.8 machines.
+15It runs three PKGs and a script? Could you break those down further for us? Something must be creating a loop.
+18Is the policy set to once per computer?
I've seen this behaviour when scripts are used to trigger other policies. Could one of the packages or the script contain a
sudo jamf policy -trigger (or event)Something on the machine has to be stuck or hung. I'm waiting for the user to get back to me. When I disabled the policy the machine continued to run the policy repeatedly. I re-enabled the policy as it's required by our security team so I need other machines to continue to run it.
I'll post back with what fixes it, assuming it's an issue on the Mac.
+6This is resolved. I had the user run "killall -s -m jamf;jamf manage;jamf configurationProfile;jamf policy;jamf recon;jamf policy -trigger every30" and that got the machine back on schedule.
+9Good to hear Robert's comments on how the following features work: [Policy trigger is at startup, and Recurring Check-in which is every 30 minutes.]
+9Calum, thanks ...didn't know you caught this post. As a matter of fact let me express a quick "thanks" to you regarding the scripting on disabling system preference panes. I've been looking for a solution to this for a while now, but just now getting back around to addressing the issue when I ran across your post in Github: https://github.com/hunty1/Scripts/tree/master/Enable:Disable%20System%20Preference%20Panes
Would love to pick your brain regarding a couple of additional areas in system preferences.
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