Upgrade to Casper 8

[jarednichols]

Hi-

We're going from 7.21 to 8 in a few weeks. I thought I saw something about the jamf binary now using a plist instead of a conf file. Is there anything on the client end that I need to do in order to make the transition smooth?

Thanks

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[RobertHammen]

/etc/jamf.conf is deprecated, it's now a file (com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist) in /Library/Preferences
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Nichols, Jared - 1170 - MITLL wrote:

Have to use sudo plutil -convert xml1/Library/Preferences/com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist to convert it from binary to ASCII if you want to view it using cat or more.

Only caveat I've seen in the upgrade is that sometimes, somehow the "allowInvalidCertificate" key defaults to "false" - so if you haven't installed an SSL certificate, or haven't gotten around to reinstalling the certificate since the upgrade (coughme*cough), some clients will apparently "drop off the face of the earth" and not execute policies, or Self Service won't work on them, until you fix the certificate, or edit the plist.

I haven't filed a bug report on this, not sure if it's something in my environment or not, but FYI in case you/anyone else runs into this (yet another thing to check if Self Service isn't working correctly),

--Robert

[talkingmoose]

Nice little trick is to use Quick Look to view a .plist file. Just select
On 2/23/11 5:09 PM, "Robert Hammen" <rhlist1 at hammen.org> wrote:
it and tap the space bar. Even if the file is in binary form Quick Look
displays it as XML. Same goes for BBEdit and TextWrangler. No conversion
needed with them.

With cat, more and the JSS, yeah, still need to convert it first.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

[jarednichols]

So I'm going to need to have clients convert the .conf to .plist? Or, will
the client build the .plist when they check in for the first time and
upgrade the binaries?

j
-- Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[RobertHammen]

Bingo, conversion happens automagically. Just seen some oddness with the allowInvalidCertificate value going to false instead of true...