Hey Sam,

Does the script run by itself in Mavericks just fine? Apple Script, for some things, requires a user session present. I have not tested this code against Mavericks yet either. Let me know if it works by running it manually. I suspect that may be part of the issue since Casper will run all scripts as root.

Thanks,
Tom

I had the same issue with the script. Cocoa Dialog ended up being a better option.

#!/bin/sh



# Set CocoaDialog Location



CD="/usr/local/bin/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"



# Dialog to enter the computer name and the create $COMPUTERNAME variable

rv=($($CD standard-inputbox --title "Asset Tag" --no-newline --informative-text "Enter the asset tag you wish to set"))



ASSETTAG=${rv[1]}





if [ "$rv" == "1" ]; then

    echo "User said OK"

elif [ "$rv" == "2" ]; then

    echo "Canceling"

    exit

fi 





# Set Hostname using variable created above

/usr/sbin/jamf recon -assetTag $ASSETTAG



# Dialog to confirm that the asset tag was set to.

tb=`$CD ok-msgbox --text "Asset Tag has been set to " --informative-text "The asset tag has been set to $ASSETTAG" --no-newline --float`



if [ "$tb" == "1" ]; then

    echo "User said OK"

elif [ "$tb" == "2" ]; then

    echo "Canceling"

    exit

fi

Thanks for the responses, Tom, your script did work fine when ran via terminal.

jhbush, thats an excellent alternative and looks like it will work well for us. I'm in the process of deploying cocoa dialog to all of our macs, but this should fit in perfect with our post image policies.

Hey Sam,

Yeah it is most likely because the root user is running the script and it has no user environment. Typically, I have deployed that script as a Self Service policy that level 1 techs can run after imaging. So, the work flow would be:

1 - Level 1 tech images the Mac
2 - Level 1 tech after imaging logs into the Mac and into Self Service with their LDAP credentials
3 - There is a post image provisioning script that runs, and it is only scoped to IT staff via their LDAP group
4 - Post image provisioning script runs, does things like ensures computer name, asset tag, BIND to AD, etc.
5 - Tech finishes the provisioning process and hands off to end user.

Cocoa Dialog is also pretty awesome and can do a lot of this pretty simply. You just have to deploy the app.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Tom

@jhbush1973][/url:

This is exactly what I was looking for. I have a few computers that I'm trying to get a little more information on. This was super helpful. I'm combining this with a script to rebind to AD and then reset all hostnames.

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Followup.

Ended up combining this with a command to unbind from AD. I have another smart group to do the bind. This has worked well so far. I have a few more computers that need to check in.

@matthewbodaly][/url please post your script if you are permitted. Big thanks to @Andrina][/url for providing the template for the script.

Here is what I did

#!/bin/bash

# this ninja takes the name that the computer has in JAMF and then renames 

# all computer variables to that name AND adds a flat text file at

# /Library/Application Support/assettag

#

# Make a folder to store resource files. Commenting this out since this line isn't needed

# when the script is deployed via Casper. Uncomment to enable.

# mkdir /Library/Application Support/caspersupport

#

# force an unbind. 

dsconfigad -force -remove -u user -p babytownfrolics

#

#ask the user what their asset tag is

CD="/usr/local/bin/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"

rv=($($CD standard-inputbox --title "Asset Tag" --no-newline --informative-text "What is the barcode on this computer?"))

BELUS=${rv[1]}

if [ "$rv" == "1" ]; then

    echo "User said OK"

elif [ "$rv" == "2" ]; then

    echo "Canceling"

    exit

fi 

# Get for the name of the computer from Casper and write it to a file

# Use this if needed. Since we already asked the user the barcode... this doesn't have to be included.

# jamf -getComputerName | cut -c 16-24 > /Library/Application Support/caspersupport/assettag

# Set entry as a variable

echo $BELUS > /Library/Application Support/caspersupport/assettag

#

# Backup the file that will be changed

cp /etc/hostconfig /Library/Application Support/caspersupport/hostconfig.bak

# Change the HostName to the variable

scutil --set HostName $BELUS

# Change the ComputerName to the variable

scutil --set ComputerName $BELUS

# Write the variable to the end of /etc/hostconfig. This uses the FQDN. If you have a FQDN... you should change this.

echo HOSTNAME=$BELUS.apptio.lan >> /etc/hostconfig

# change the Bonjour name

systemsetup -setlocalsubnetname $BELUS

sudo jamf recon

#rebind to active directory

I ended up dumping it in GitHub too https://github.com/matthewbodaly/rawrscripts/edit/master/computernameninjaV2.sh

I need to clean up the comments a little bit. I also didn't include the part to rebind since that is in another policy.