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Hey NetSUS users,
Version 4.1.0 of the NetSUS Appliance is here (https://github.com/jamf/NetSUS/releases)! This version fixes a few bugs that have been hanging out for a long time as well as brings a number other improvements and extensions. You can see the changeling here (https://github.com/jamf/NetSUS/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

One change that you'll notice as soon as you run the appliance is a new user interface. This change was done for two reasons. First is just to refresh the application. Second, we have employed the bootstrap framework (http://getbootstrap.com) to make it easier to maintain and change the UI going forward.

We've also converted all the documentation to markdown and it now lives in the github repository instead of on JAMFNation. So now the community can help make improvements to the documentation, too. We hope this will make it easier for you to participate in improving this open source project.

Speaking of this as an open source project, we'd like to ask for your help. You may have noticed that we (JAMF Software) are not always super fast about getting bugs fixed or approving pull requests. We don't have the bandwidth to have someone assigned to be constantly watching over the NetSUS. We're working hard to bring you new features in the Casper Suite! We do this mostly in our spare time, which we don't have much of. Currently only JAMF personnel are able to approve and merge pull requests. We don't feel that is serving the needs of the community very well at this point. So we'd like to open that up to some of you in the NetSUS community. This is a community appliance and we need to start acting in that way. Obviously we need people who are competent programmers and are trusted by the community. But we think there are many of you that fulfill that requirement. Our ask is that you contact me (greg.munson@jamfsoftware.com) if you're interested in taking on a stronger role with the NetSUS. We'll make sure you get the information you need to help the community make this tool better than it has ever been before, and do it faster.

Setting up Ubuntu 14.04.5 on VMWARE 5.5, imported NetSUSLP_4.1.0.ova, error : "Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2"
Used ovftool to convert NetSUSLP_4.1.0.ova to NetSUSLP_4.1.0.ovf and imported to VMWARE 5.5 , still not working.
Has anyone successfully have it working on VMWARE 5.5 ? Thank you

I'm beginning to think that v. 4.1.0 is very buggy.

I ran a couple of experiments with different Linux distros hosted on KVM, and it looks like NetSUSLP 4.1 only wants to work on Ubuntu Server 14.04.5 for me.

With CentOS 6.8 and 7.x, I keep running into problems where smb service does not get started, so I can't mount the NetBoot share. Even after I edit the smb.conf file and start smb service, it doesn't want to mount. I also made sure that I installed and activated xinetd ahead of installing NetSUSLP, based on @jfeller's finding.

Also, the Software Update service just doesn't sync with Apple properly, and it's missing a lot of updates from the list. In the attached screen shots, I marked all the software updates that appear in Ubuntu but are missing from the CentOS hosted NetSUSLP server.

Our Linux hardware servers are all RHEL or CentOS since they have longer support cycles, so this is a bit of a bummer. I'm not in a big hurry to set up a NetSUSLP server, but it's discouraging that I can't use the server OS we standardized on, and that supposedly works with v. 4.1.

If there are additional steps for getting this running properly on RHEL/CentOS, they need to be included in the documentation pages as part of the initial setup.

When I installed the software on the Ubuntu 14.04.5 vm, everything worked with no errors.



That's bad news... I haven't played around with it lately, but I did notice that ours wasn't "quite" working right either.

We're in the middle of re-doing our JSS servers with RHEL 7 and JSS v9.96 but once that's done, I plan on taking another look.

I got a NetSUS 4.1.0 running on a testvm with Ubuntu 14.04.5, which "appears" to be running fine, as in no errors. However, when selecting updates for branches I created, it is added in de webgui, but when looking at the branch catalog it is still empty (except the modify date is changed to the date/time I added the update packages to the branch). Anyone else seeing that behaviour?

On production I still run NetSUS 3, which is working as intended.

Has anyone experienced this?

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/22231/mac-temporarily-frozen-when-selecting-nbi-after-netsus-4-1-0-upgrade

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