Can you tell if a computer is currently executing a policy?

[#1]

With long running policies (such as downloading and installing all updates ;), it would be nice to know if a computer is currently engaged in the task.

I suspect that one could ssh to the computer, and run 'top' or 'ps' and find out, but is there any way to ask Casper (or even the Casper database itself) which computers are currently working on a task but have not reported on its completion?

Thanks,
Clinton

[ernstcs]

Well...that's an interesting idea. Feature request is what I smell.

As far as I know the only real way to know what the jamf binary MAY be doing is by looking at the jamf.log, and that'll tell you what it has recently started to do. Beyond that the different resources it's calling to do the work are running.

As far as looking into the JSS for this, that's probably only possible if part of what the jamf binary does at the start of a performing a task is to report into the JSS the status as started or in progress, but that's about all your gonna get there on the server side I imagine. Doesn't do that now of course.

Not sure how I'd want that dealt with...

Craig E