Aternity Agent Deployment Script

[Eskobar]

Hi everyone

I need to deploy Aternity agent on MacBooks using a policy.
Guide: https://help.aternity.com/bundle/console_install_guide_x_console_saas/page/console/topics/agent_ig_i...

The agent am trying to deploy is : Aternity_MacAgent_3.7.0-49

Some machines have Aternity_MacAgent_3.5.0-102, some do not have any agent, i have multiple OS installed.

My script was not successful, any idea?

#!/bin/bash

# Copy the Agent pkg file to the home or shared directory of the user.

# Use the copy method for your distribution system.

#Set up the pkg file with full logs, placing the Agent files in the home directory of the user.

su -l $this_user -c "/usr/sbin/installer -verboseR -dumplog -pkg /Users/$this_user/mac-agent.pkg -target CurrentUserHomeDirectory"

exit 0      ## Success

exit 1      ## Failure

[AJPinto]

I think you are missing line 4 in Step 5 from your script. This is where the $this_user variable is defined. If the $this_user variable is not defined the script wont know where to put the files and will error out.

#!/bin/bash

#Get the current user on a device. Notice the back-quote for embedding the python script.
this_user=$(scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name :/ && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }')

# Copy the Agent pkg file to the home or shared directory of the user.
# Use the copy method for your distribution system.

#Set up the pkg file with full logs, placing the Agent files in the home directory of the user.
su -l $this_user -c "/usr/sbin/installer -verboseR -dumplog -pkg /Users/$this_user/mac-agent.pkg -target CurrentUserHomeDirectory"

[cdoherty]

Also, in Monterey (not sure of the version) Apple has removed Python, so if your installer is using Python it will fail on these devices. I think the latest installer from Aternity no longer uses Python. 

[AJPinto]

Apple removed Python 2.7, not Python as a whole. They did this with 12.3 back in March. You must now use Python 3, so any scripts using Python 2.7 need to be updated to function.

[Eskobar]

Correct.

Script adjusted and deployment testing

[Eskobar]

Hi @AJPinto 

Indeed, i have this error: 

Could you please help me  fixed, I sam not good at scripting :(

Thanks