[Casper] Asset Tags in casper

[adamshep07 at aol.com]

We use the asset tag in our naming convention

Example: CS-123456

Below is the script that simply grabs the last 6 characters and 
populates this into casper. The script is set to run at reboot so the 
name has already been set when imaging.

#!/bin/sh
COMPNAME=`/usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName`
echo "jamf recon -assetTag ${COMPNAME:(-6)}"
jamf recon -skipApps -skipFonts -skipPlugins -assetTag ${COMPNAME:(-6)}

Cheers,

-Adam

Adam Shepard
Creighton School District
Web Developer / System Administrator
[Office 602-381-6000][Cell 602-319-8935]

-----Original Message-----
From: Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>
To: Casper List <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Sent: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:10 am
Subject: [Casper] Asset Tags in casper

Hi-



So I keep track of computers’ asset tag numbers in Casper.  Right now 
it’s a manual process whereby I ask the user what their asset tag 
number is and then I plunk it into Casper.  We’re going to be going to 
production soon and this would require a lot of manual overhead on my 
(or any other admin’s) part.  Ideally, I’d like to prompt the user for 
this information and then store it in Casper.  I know how to prompt a 
user on the command line (e.g. Use a script for this), store it and 
then write it out to a dummy receipt file, but I’d like it to look 
better.  What’s the best way to do this?  I 
could make an AppleScript 
studio app to do it, but I don’t know if that’s the best way.  I don’t 
know any cocoa, but I have a feeling that would be the best way to go – 
perhaps that’d be a good “first app” to create?



Thoughts?



j

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Jared F. Nichols

Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations

Information Services Department

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

244 Wood Street

Lexington, Massachusetts 02420

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