[Casper] Dummy Receipts and Custom Triggering a Policy

[Miles Leacy]

A single dash is correct.  Sorry for the typo.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Cyrus Vahhaji <Cyrus.Vahhaji at bestbuy.com>wrote:

>  Miles,
>
> Thanx for your thorough info. Question on syntax used below. Should there
> be two dashes "--" or one dash "-" before trigger? Noticed Ryan also using
> two dashes but Jamf help pages has only one.
>
> Thanx for clarifying this.
> Cyrus
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> *From: *Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com>
> *Date: *Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:31:37 -0500
> *To: *Ryan Harter <rharter at uwsp.edu>
> *Cc: *Cyrus Vahhaji <cyrus.vahhaji at bestbuy.com>, "Harter, Ryan" <
> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu>, Jamf List Serve <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
> *Subject: *Re: Dummy Receipts and Custom Triggering a Policy
>
> Oops, I realized that I forgot to mention the second thing to do to use
> custom triggers.  Ryan mentioned it further back in the thread, but here it
> is again...
>
> After you save your policy that is triggered by "other", for example, let's
> say that other="customTrigger".
>
> You call the custom-triggered policy via the jamf binary like so:
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> sudo jamf policy --trigger "customTrigger"
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> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com>
> wrote:
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> Gents,
>
> I'm taking this back on list because there may be others in the community
> that would benefit from this discussion.
>
> To Recap, there are two questions: how to use custom triggers and how to
> create dummy receipts.
>
> To use a custom trigger there are two things to do:
> 1. Create a policy and in the General tab, choose "other (Manually specify
> the run at action in this field) -->" from the "Triggered by:" drop down
> menu and enter your custom trigger in the text field next to this drop down
> menu.  I use Apple-esque run-together phrases with caps, such as
> "memberAccountingComputerGroup" for my custom triggers.  I'm not sure what
> the upper limit is for custom trigger length, but I haven't hit it yet, and
> I like to be descriptive with my triggers.
>
> Re: "Dummy receipts"
> The so-called "dummy receipt" is a receipt from a payload-free package.  I
> create empty prebuilt Apple .pkg files using Composer like so...
> 1. Create an empty folder with the same name as your intended package (and
> receipt) in /Applications/The Casper Suite/Temp/ (see attachment "Picture
> 1.png")
> 2. Open Composer, choose this prebuilt package and save it as an Apple
> .pkg.  (see attachment "Picture 2.png")
>
> Some may find that using these "dummy receipts" creates clutter, but if you
> integrate the concept into your workflows, document your work, and maintain
> clear and consistent policies (in the general sense, not Casper Policies)
> and naming conventions, use of receipts in this way can be a very efficient
> and effective method to extend your management capabilities.
>
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>  Certified Technical Coordinator 10.5
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> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ryan Harter <rharter at uwsp.edu> wrote:
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> I haven't used dummy receipts before, I've been trying to avoid them if
> possible because it seems like more for me to keep track of.  Miles might be
> able to give you more help with that.
>
> As for the custom trigger, you've got it all figured out.  when you set a
> policy you can set triggered by to custom (I think it even has an ascii
> arrow ----->) and enter the trigger in the text box.  Then you call sudo
> jamf policy --trigger "custom trigger" and it will run that policy.  I
> currently do it as a workaround to get my adobe installs to run after boot
> time.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> *
> Ryan Harter
> *UW - Stevens Point
> Workstation Developer
> 715.346.2716
> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu <mailto:Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu <Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu>>
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> On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Cyrus Vahhaji wrote:
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>  Miles, Ryan,
>
>  I've been following "Computer group from AD" thread and you brought up
> dummy receipts and triggering custom policies and didn't want to hijack the
> thread with my question.
>
>  What is the best way of creating a Dummy Receipt? Would it be an empty
> folder created in Composer?
>
>  What do you mean by "custom trigger" here?
>  - if desired group is found, issue a custom trigger of "receipt exists".
>   Is it triggering a policy to add the dummy receipt that the machine is in
> AD? If so, are you using something like "sudo jamf policy –trigger "desired
> policy"
>
>  Thanx,
>
>  *Cyrus Vahhaji
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