[Feature Request] self updating self service

[tlarkin]

Could it be possible that when you update the jamf binary via Casper policy there could also be a way to update all needed Jamf apps as well? Every time I update the back end (JSS and Jamf binary) I have to manually update Self Service. Could this possibly be set up to update everything in one step? The command line will self update on it's own but self service app will not.

Thanks

Tom

[#2]

One possibility would be to setup a smart computer group with the jamf binary version and scope the install of the new Self Service app to that group.

[ernstcs]

I’m liking that idea...

I deploy Recon, Casper Remote, and Self Service to all boxes. I just end up making a pack of them and pushing it out with Policy, but having it just happen automagically would be super. You’d want the versions to remain consistent anyway.

Craig E

[tlarkin]

Yes, that is what I am doing right now. However, I still gotta pack up the new version of self service. I was thinking maybe it would be nice if there were a check box in say the advanced section of a policy that could enable us to tell the client to update all present Jamf apps. To avoid the mundane task of always repacking them. So, I could just say, upload the new Casper DMG to the JSS and then tell it which Jamf apps to update, or to update all preset apps.

Thanks

Tom

[#5]

Could it be possible that when you update the jamf binary via
Casper policy there could also be a way to update all needed Jamf apps
as well? Every time I update the back end (JSS and Jamf binary) I have
to manually update Self Service. Could this possibly be set up to
update everything in one step? The command line will self update on
it's own but self service app will not.

Here is a second to that request.

(Helps when you reply to the list and not Tom directly.) : )

- JD

[talkingmoose]

I'd like to see this applied to all the Casper Suite apps. Rather than
On 7/15/10 10:04 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
seeing an error message like "this application is incompatible with your
current JSS", give me the option to download the updated application from
my JSS or distribution point.

All my Macs have Restore partitions but keeping the the Casper Imaging
application up-to-date requires a policy and some package trickery to get
it updated.

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