[Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple?

[Thomas Larkin]

Well,

While it does install just fine and can be deployed by Casper it does not actually change the firmware version of the battery.  I did a before and after comparison of:

system_profile SPPowerDataType | grep Firmware 

both times it reported back version 0110.  So, I am not sure how well this battery update even works.  Apple knows about it and they are looking into it.

I had a script written that would check the batteries firmware version and if it was the version that needed updating it would trigger a custom trigger Casper policy to install the battery update and then reboot the machine.  However, since the firmware version is not being updated this won't help my policy run as smoothly as I hoped.

So holding off just yet to see where the update goes.

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>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> 03/03/09 10:08 AM >>>
I just installed it with a local account and it never asked for any user interaction other than authentication.  It does require OS X 10.5.6 so you may be able to package it up with a forced reboot and it may in fact work.

>>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 03/03/09 9:55 AM >>>

2009/3/3 Chad Brewer 
<chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> 




If it was that easy, wouldn't the update be installed via Apple SUS? 





Maybe, and my initial gut reaction to the question was "it's a firmware update therefore it can't be automated". After reading the kb article and seeing no mention of hardware interaction, I think it's worth a try. It's certainly possible it may not work. 






Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> on March 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM -0800 wrote: