Pre-stage enrollment Mac Device Name

You can. Script to:

”jamf setcomputername -name <nameHere>”

Something like that anyways.  We have that set at enrollment on our devices. 

So complete would be:

prefix=“myOrg”

serial=$(ioreg -l | awk -F\” '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ {print $(NF-1)}')

jamf setcomputername -name $prefix-$serial

…. or something like that. 

​@mmolenda I have an Ongoing policy with a Check-In trigger set to rename any computers (using the Jamf binary) that don’t have a name that is compliant with our naming convention. The policy is scoped to a smart group that looks for names that don’t match our format: <prefix>-<serial_number>

The policy itself just runs a single command via the Files and Processes tab:

jamf setcomputername -useSerialNumber -prefix "Q-"

​@Josh-Q Nice call out!  I forgot about that switch. 

We put our asset tag on device names that’s polled from ServiceNow….so we have to do API calls to grab all of that.

Many ways to do this as you see. With that said, also make sure you’ve found The MUT

https://marketplace.jamf.com/details/the-mut 

​@mmolenda I have an Ongoing policy with a Check-In trigger set to rename any computers (using the Jamf binary) that don’t have a name that is compliant with our naming convention. The policy is scoped to a smart group that looks for names that don’t match our format: <prefix>-<serial_number>

 

The policy itself just runs a single command via the Files and Processes tab:

jamf setcomputername -useSerialNumber -prefix "Q-"

 

 

I was able to make this work beautifully post enrollment with some modifications that fit our environment.  Is there a way to make this work pre-enrollment?  The only reason I ask is because the configuration profiles are downloaded as soon as you click “Enroll” and at that point it is pulling “MacBook Pro” which is guess, Apple’s default.  So, in the logs for the configuration profiles, it says MacBook Pro.  I can click on it and see what it is but it is not logged as what it is.

This did work great post-enrollment.  If that is as best I can get, I am happy that it automated the naming of the Mac.

​@mmolenda I guess you could deploy an enrollment package that just runs a script or you could set some of your config profiles to only apply once that name has been set. We have the same issue, but in my environment, I personally just deal with it. If I have an issue and I need to see if a config profile applied to a system, I’m normally looking at the system record and not the full config profile log.

It would be nice if the same Device Name payload existed in the Computer Prestage enrollments as they have in the Mobile Device Enrollments, but alas...

We received a script from our Apple SE that sets device names for our iPads - but would also work for laptops- it is run at enrollment

+1 for MUT also - have used it in the past

you could also use Composer or any other packaging tool to add the script for the renaming of the mac into the postinstall. 

I modified my script to match the example of Josh-Q. 

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /loca/bin/jamf ]; then
    jamf setComputerName -prefix "Q-" -useSerialNumber 
else
    MacSerial=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | /usr/bin/awk '/Serial\ Number\ \(system\)/ {print $NF}')
    /usr/sbin/scutil --set ComputerName "Q-${MacSerial}"
    sleep 3
    /usr/sbin/scutil --set LocalHostName "Q-${MacSerial}"
    sleep 3
    /usr/sbin/scutil --set HostName "Q-${MacSerial}"
    sleep 3
    /usr/bin/dscacheutil -flushcache
fi