One client stuck at 7.1 [w/ feature request]

[tlarkin]

Apple Script is great for interacting with the end user. I am starting to use it myself, however, to be honest most users ignore it anyway. Really, what I want, and yes this is a feature request, is to create a scope off an advanced inventory search.

So, I can do a search for everything that has Casper version 7.1, and my inventory search will populate a small report. Then there just needs to be a little link you click that says turn search into scope of policy. Then you create your policy and bam, done.

OK, I am actually going to feature request this. Feature request email sent in.

-Tom

[#2]

I second that request, that sort of feature would be awesome!

*Jonathan H. Smith *| DDS: Deployment & Packaging | Genentech Informatics

(p): (650) 302-6985 | (e): jhsmith at gene.com | (w): gene.com

[donmontalvo]

Thus our intention to increase dialog box display frequency. I figure by the time users see it every 5 minutes, they're probably going to read it and reboot. :)

Don

[stevewood]

And, hence the reason I send emails to the user when the script runs too.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Don Montalvo <donmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote: That way they have an email and the dialog. Hopefully they'll pay
attention to one of them. Could also escalate to send an email to the IT
department, or maybe figure out how to send to their boss or department
boss.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

[donmontalvo]

We discussed sending emails but none of the Macs are defined as assigned to a specific user (users bounce around). No "Mac users" list to send an email to. We presented the dialog box idea again, waiting for a response.

Another option we've discussed is adding a preflight script to check for the process "Safari"...if not present, run install. If not, check again in an hour. This way even if the user doesn't log out, if they exit Safari and the policy kicks in, it'll run.

Don

[stevewood]

Are the users logging into the computers? If the email address is in the
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Don Montalvo <donmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote:
directory (AD or OD), you should be able to grab it that way. Grab the
current logged on user, then use dscl to search:

CurrentUser=ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }'
email=`dscl /LDAPv3/<yourldapserver.com> -read /Users/$CurrentUser | grep
EMailAddress | awk '{ print $2 }'`

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475