JDS 9.81 Linux Installation problem

[patrickbaeken]

Hi all, we are currently testing Casper to manage the Macs in our organization.
This is quite new for us as we mainly are a PC company (22K desktops).
We had no problem deploying/configuring the JSS but installing the JDS on a linux server (tried Redhat and ubuntu) always fails at the same point :

Allow untrusted SSL certificate? (y/n): y
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 83, in <module> File "<string>", line 32, in main File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/jds", line 33, in init File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/conf", line 16, in init File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/conf", line 42, in load File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/xml.etree.ElementTree", line 862, in parse File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/xml.etree.ElementTree", line 586, in parse File "/root/bamboo-agent-home/xml-data/build-dir/REL-ACS-RELCASJDSRHEL/build/pyi.linux2/jamfds/out00-PYZ.pyz/xml.etree.ElementTree", line 1245, in feed
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2, column 65

failed to create configuration file.
check /usr/local/jds/logs/jamf.log for more information.

The jamf.log does not contain anything useful, a single line : INFO Creating configuration file for https://our.server.name

I would be grateful for any leads/ideas about this problem.

[thoule]

Do you have any security software running on this box? Are you trying with a plain vanilla ubuntu-server install?

[lkrasno]

which Ubuntu? JDS does not like 14

[patrickbaeken]

No security software is running, tried on Redhat 6.7, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS, result is always the same. Tried manually running jamfds createConf -url https://our.server.corp:8443/, erroring out every time on all platforms.

[endor-moon]

Perhaps some required software is missing? I'm using CentOS 6.5 for our JSS and we had to install the following for that:

yum install mysql-server
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64
yum install ftp
yum install unzip

I don't see a release notes for the JDS on 9.81. Perhaps you should open a support case and see what they can do. Please share the solution when you acquire it. ;)

[patrickbaeken]

Thanks for your input, I will give it a shot and let you know if that solves the problem.
We have reported this to jamf but we're still in a testing phase and we haven't received any answer from them yet.

[endor-moon]

@patrickbaeken No problem. By the way, my account rep tells me they are working on JDS 2.0 but if you can't wait they recommend using a simple HTTP share instead of the current JDS on Linux. See:

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=216