Am I Managed?

[jarednichols]

Hi-

I'd like to make some sort of small change to client machines to indicate that their computers are managed, and possibly, to what level (e.g. Patches only or patches and software management). I thought of making a Dashboard widget, but I'd want to make it persistent. Perhaps a self healing package so that if they removed the widget or removed it from their dashboard, it would show back up. But, from running Composer, it looks like the widget being active in the Dashboard is in a plist and I'm not sure how to append that to their current Dashboard plist instead of re-distributing the entire thing (and thus bouncing out any Dashboard widgets that they had put in).

Any ideas? Maybe a widget is the wrong way to go about it?
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[tlarkin]

Sounds like a job for dummy packages?

Write small simple scripts that check for management, groups, or
packages and then manually trigger a dummy package based on the results?

Just an idea

Tom

[talkingmoose]

Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:54:19 -0400

Can you get the information you need from the /var/log/jamf.log file? Or,
maybe you could create a policy that runs a script displaying a message with
this information. You can trigger it with the Self Help application.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492