[Casper] Am I Managed?

[Smith, William]

From: "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:54:19 -0400

> I¹d like to make some sort of small change to client machines to indicate that
> their computers are managed, and possibly, to what level (e.g. Patches only or
> patches and software management).  I thought of making a Dashboard widget, but
> I¹d want to make it persistent.  Perhaps a self healing package so that if
> they removed the widget or removed it from their dashboard, it would show back
> up.  But, from running Composer, it looks like the widget being active in the
> Dashboard is in a plist and I¹m not sure how to append that to their current
> Dashboard plist instead of re-distributing the entire thing (and thus bouncing
> out any Dashboard widgets that they had put in).

Can you get the information you need from the /var/log/jamf.log file? Or,
maybe you could create a policy that runs a script displaying a message with
this information. You can trigger it with the Self Help application.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492