Rolling out Absolut Computrace

thanks for the help everyone, smooth sailing. ~Joseph

Yup, all student machines get CompUtrace installed via post image script, via command line policy trigger. I just dropped the PKG into Casper Admin and here is a snippet from my post image script that installs it

# add computrace to all HS laptops # commenting this out for the middle school script

/usr/sbin/jamf policy -trigger addcomputrace

/bin/echo "Comp-U-Trace installed!"

Thomas, I'm being prompted still for the admin pw and install path...
How did you get around this ?

Ryan, What instructions ? The included "AgentInstallGuide" doesnt
really dig into mass deployment ~Joseph

Chapter 4 in my guide...Image Installation is what they call it. :(

Disk Imaging For Macintosh Computers
Follow the steps below to create a standard drive image for a Mac.
1. Prepare the Source Computer — Starting with a freshly formatted
computer, install the operating system and any desired software to be
included in the image.

1. Extract the contents of the rpclient_image.tar archive — From the
   installation media, extract the contents of rpclient_image.tar to the
   local machine and note where the files are located.

2. Navigate to the installation directory — Open a terminal window and
   navigate to the directory where you extracted the files in Step 2.

3. Run the installer — Enter the following command sudo ./install.sh

When prompted, enter the administrative password. The installation
will complete and the following confirmation message will be
displayed:

Install path is: /
You may now create a drive image with the Computrace Agent. On the
first startup from the imaged drive, the installation will complete.

1. Create an image of the hard drive.

2. Test the new hard drive image. Deploy the drive image to a target
   computer, connect the target to the internet and reboot the machine.
   Verify the target’s Computrace Agent has received a unique ESN. To
   verify the agent’s ESN, see “Verifying Agent Installation” on page 30.

Ryan M. Manly
Glenbrook High Schools

I downloaded the deployment kit and created a pkg with the IP/DNS of
our servers and since casper runs installs as root, there should be no
authentication needed.

-tom

I recently struggled with this install also, I however now have a
working Policy that installs it. This is what I did, I created a PKG out
of the install that basically copies the files to the local machine,
then I run a .sh to install.

This is the script I use to trigger the install.sh that comes with the
Computrace download.

# the install script needs to be run from Users/Shared/temp/install cd /Users/Shared/temp/install
# Run the installer, set the newPassword
./install.sh -w (your password minus the parentheses)
sleep 10
# cleanup after ourselves
cd /
rm -R Users/Shared/temp/install
# Done
exit 0

Darin

Has there been any update on this for use with thin imaging? We dont create images anymore, but I would like to install this via policy from self service or some other trigger on a new Mac from Apple. Ive tried to follow these directions, but I think the problem lies in getting it to make a call to register itself with Absolute. There doesnt seem to be a way to run the program that initiates a call. Any idea's?