Prevent Mac from sleeping - Best Practise

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Hello,

what is the best way if i want to disable sleep for 3 hours while installing on macs which have a configuration profile which sets sleep to 15 minutes. The profile is installed at enrollment after this i run a policy by custom trigger which runs a script with different custom triggers.

Should i just use caffeinate at the beginning of the script?
Should i make a new configuration profile with new sleep settings? Does it overwrite the old 15 minutes? I would like to do everything in the script and not to use an additional step in the jss.
Is there another good way?

Thanks in advance
Maurice Fiedler

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I just used caffeinate in a seperate script (it seperates the command away so other scripts can be run after).
I name it alphabetically so it runs prior to the other scripts.
It defaults to 3 hours but you can pass it a $4 parameter of however many hours you want up to 48.
I think it still works...

#!/bin/sh

declare -i LIVE_TIME
LIVE_TIME=10800
if [[ "$4" -gt "0" ]] && [[ "$4" -lt "49" ]]; then
LIVE_TIME=$4*3600
fi
echo Machine will not sleep for $LIVE_TIME seconds.
( caffeinate -sid -t $LIVE_TIME ) &
disown
exit