Activeted Lost mode on more iPads than one

[JamFm]

Hi all,

Is there a solution to mark several iPads via Jamf and trigger a LostMode?

e.g. 20 or more 50 iPads are stolen from a school and you want to activate the Lostmode with the appropriate message.

How could we trigger this as quickly as possible and without much time expenditure with a message?

Without having to set the LostMode on the iPad individually?

Nice Regards

Peter

[TrixMedia · Accepted solution]

Hi JamFm,

As far as I am aware, there is no way to do this currently within Jamf School but it is a feature that the Jamf team are looking into. It was recently put into a feature request on Jamf Nation. 
I would advise you upvote this as this allows the Jamf team to see that this is a wanted feature.

https://ideas.jamf.com/ideas/JN-I-25219

Many Thanks,
Matt

[JamFm]

Thanks Matt 👍

[mschlosser]

In the past, I have used this script to do what you describe via jamf pro, hope this helps.

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#!/bin/bash

# server connection information

URL="$JSSFQDN"

userName="$apiaccount"

password="$apipass"

# Lost Mode messaging

lostModeMsg="$messagehere"

lostModePhone="$phonehere"

lostModeFootnote="$footnote"

# path to list of serial numbers

deviceList="$serials.txt"

xpath() {

    # the xpath tool changes in Big Sur

    if [[ $(sw_vers -buildVersion) > "20A" ]]; then

        /usr/bin/xpath -e "$@"

    else

        /usr/bin/xpath "$@"

    fi

}

mobileDeviceList=$( /bin/cat "$deviceList" )

# send Lost Mode command to every device in mobile device list

for aDevice in ${mobileDeviceList[@]}

do

    # get Jamf Pro ID for device

    deviceID=$( /usr/bin/curl -s "$URL/JSSResource/mobiledevices/serialnumber/$aDevice" \

    --user "$userName:$password" \

    --header "Accept: text/xml" \

    --request GET | \

    xpath '/mobile_device/general/id/text()' )

    # API submission command

    xmlData="<mobile_device_command>

<general>

<command>EnableLostMode</command>

<lost_mode_message>$lostModeMsg</lost_mode_message>

<lost_mode_phone>$lostModePhone</lost_mode_phone>

<lost_mode_footnote>$lostModeFootnote</lost_mode_footnote>

</general>

<mobile_devices>

<mobile_device>

<id>$deviceID</id>

</mobile_device>

</mobile_devices>

</mobile_device_command>"

    # flattened XML

    flatXML=$( /usr/bin/xmllint --noblanks - <<< "$xmlData" )

    /usr/bin/curl -s "$URL/JSSResource/mobiledevicecommands/command/EnableLostMode"\

    --user "$userName":"$password" \

    --header "Content-Type: text/xml" \

    --request POST \

    --data "$flatXML"

    echo "Sending Enable Lost Mode Command to Device ID: $deviceID..."

done

exit 0