Category: Scripting
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Jamf Connect – Reporting the Login Window
Jamf Connect is an app that can help a Mac administrator bring directory based authentication to a mac without the need to bind the mac to an on-premises Active Directory by using a Cloud Identity Provider, such as Azure or Okta. Once Jamf Connect is implemented, users will use their directory credentials to authenticate to…
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Jamf Pro API – Manage macOS Software Updates
Using the Jamf Pro API to carry out management tasks can help to save time and effort by using a script to do those tasks. A script can also be re-used at any time that you would like to do the task again. In this example, we are going to show how we can send…
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Jamf Pro API – Get Bearer Token
The Jamf Pro API can be utilized to perform actions on your Jamf Pro server in mass without having to log into the GUI to get it done. These actions can be deleting objects in Jamf Pro, reading inventory information, updating policies, etc… The possibilities are endless. Each action performed with the Jamf Pro API…
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Jamf Pro API – Get Jamf Notifications
For this post, I wanted to share how to get important notifications that may be on your Jamf Pro server without having to actually open a web browser, navigating to your Jamf Pro server, logging in, and viewing the notifications. This task can be done utilizing the Jamf Pro API. The endpoint we will be…
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GREP
What is grep? -Utility designed for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Global regular expression print. Where is grep? The location of grep can be found using the which command What can be done with grep? Grep can filter information from the computer and report back all lines that include…
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AWK
What is awk? -Utility designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Where is awk? The location of awk can be found using the which command How to get the computer’s Model Identifier? The Model Identifier information lives in the system_profiler > SPHardwareDataType, below is an example of the…