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Policy chaining questions

  • September 15, 2011
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Imagine a policy chain of four policies (for example, "Preflight", "removeSW#1", "removeSW#2", and "installSW") with a manual policy trigger on each policy with a Run Command at the end of each policy that has a jamf policy trigger which leads to the manual trigger of the next policy. Also add that each policy has a scope of many computers. My question: using jamf policy trigger via command line, if I send the first policy's manual trigger to A SINGLE COMPUTER, will it install all the policies on the computer OR the entire scope of many computers?

I can visualize it both ways

Second, can policy chaining be successfully used within Self Service?

Thanks,

Sean
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Sean Alexander
Desktop Analyst
Macintosh Services Delivery
Lockheed Martin - Enterprise Business Services
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  • September 15, 2011

As a huge fan of manual trigger policies, I can attest once you trigger it, it only triggers to the one machine. One caveat, if you don't set it to ongoing you can only trigger it once.

-Tom


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  • September 15, 2011

Depends on the policy, but you could always flush the policy history for the mac at rebuild. So it gets the policy again.

Regards,

Ben.