Run a script based on hardware

Why not create a smart group that's Hardware model is like book & assign the policy to only install on machines in that smart group?

Ben Toms
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Audit wants this to be listed in their reports, so I wanted this to report this to Inventory. In addition, I wanted Desktops to return something like "Desktop: Does not require PGPWDE"

I've been told to comply to their "every request". However, I think I found a way...Instead of calling the model name from system profiler I can call the "Sudden Motion Sensor". Laptops are the only platform that have this installed correct?

This gets really tricky because of several factors

1) system_profiler command over the years and models has changed, so
making it "future-proof" could be an issue

2) Apple likes to change their models around, iMac 9,1 10,1 etc

So, I would maybe look at doing it like this, with a case construct

#!/bin/bash

# get the current model name of the machine

ModelName=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Model Name:/ {
print $3 }'`

# now create a case construct to determine what to do

case $ModelName in

MacBook ) # computer type is laptop

/bin/echo "Model is a laptop, installing PGP'

/usr/sbin/jamf policy -trigger installPGP

;;

MacMini ) # computer is a desktop, and create receipt

/bin/echo "Model is a laptop, no need to install PGP"

/Library/Reciepts/pgp.txt

;;

iMac ) # Model is a desktop

/bin/echo "Model is a laptop, no need to install PGP" >
/Library/Reciepts/pgp.txt

;;

MacbookPro ) # model is a laptop

/bin/echo "Model is a laptop, installing PGP'

/usr/sbin/jamf policy -trigger installPGP

;; esac

exit 0

This is totally proof of concept, you gotta test that out on your own. I think you can maybe even wild card macbook, if the word "MacBook" is
in every single laptop Apple makes. So you could change MacBook to
MacBook* and not have to maintain every MacBook model in your script.

-Tom