ManageEngine Asset Explorer

jramm
New Contributor

Looking at Asset Explorer as a viable inventory system and want to pull in my JAMF assets. Looks like the only way to do so is via the APIs on both platforms. Anyone else using this set up and gotten it connected?

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KyleEricson
Valued Contributor II

@jramm There is a sh script you can use to get Mac devices into ManageEngine, not aware of anything for iOS.

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jramm
New Contributor

I saw the script for that. Curious if anyone has used the API to just pull from JSS inventory to ManageEngine.

jramm
New Contributor

@kericson I found the sh script on github, but I've only been able to get it to work on the initial install; it doesn't send any updated info. Do you have any experience with it?

KyleEricson
Valued Contributor II

Yeah let me share the policy and pkg that I have with you. I’ll do this tonight.

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KyleEricson
Valued Contributor II

@jramm This is how I have mine setup.

  1. Download the script from your ServiceDesk console.
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  2. Modify the script for your environment.

#!/bin/sh


############ Server details ############

hostName="MSD69"
portNo="443"
protocol="https"

############ Server details ############

SUPPORT="assetexplorer-support@manageengine.com"
PRODUCT="AssetExplorer"

COMPUTERNAME=`hostname`
OUTPUTFILE="$COMPUTERNAME.xml"

3. Save the script and build it into a PKG and deploy with a policy. I had mine installed at /Library/SD/ae_scan_mac.sh

  1. Push this policy to all Macs.

  2. Create another policy to run this .sh script.
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  3. Now Macs will scan into ServiceDesk.

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jramm
New Contributor

@kericson What version of AssetExplorer are you using?

Edit: Found it. Let me test that out. From speaking to AssetExplorer support, they denied this functionality.

jramm
New Contributor

@kericson Thanks for the assist. Are you able to get it to pull in the actual Macbook model (e.g. MacBookPro15,1, etc...)? So far I can only get the generic "MacBookPro." When I make adjustments to the script for some reason ManageEngine won't accept it.

KyleEricson
Valued Contributor II

@jramm I haven't tried to modify that info so not sure.

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