adam argyle

I have 2 scripts I’ve found useful with scoping policies and profiles to a group that isn’t easily configured by other information in a device’s record. A MacBook Pro that is shared for a lab is difficult encrypt, but the same model in the same department is assigned to a specific user and that we do want to encrypt. We can scope a policy to a static group and use a Self Service policy to add a machine to that group, then trigger the policy by a custom event to kick off.

APIaddtoStaticGroup.sh grabs the serial number of the device and adds it to a static group by that groups ID number. You can easily locate the ID number of a group by checking the URL in the JSS. In the example below, the number is in the ?id= portion, represented by XX.

https://yourjssurl.com:8443/staticComputerGroups.html?id=XX&o=r

Writing the script with these variables allows for reuse, and if an update to the parameters is made it will be easy to update one script instead of every policy that may use it.

apiData="<computer_group><computer_additions><computer><serial_number>${serialNumber}</serial_number></computer></computer_additions></computer_group>"
curl \
	-s \
	-f \
	-u ${apiUser}:${apiPass} \
	-X PUT \
	-H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
	-d "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>${apiData}" ${jssHost}/JSSResource/computergroups/id/${groupID}

A few usage examples for this would be to add a machine to an exception group to temporarily remove a profile for testing at the help desk, or adding to a group that has an encryption policy scoped to it.

APIremovefromStaticGroup.sh is similarly used to remove a machine from a static group. One of the ways I’ve used this is to remove a machine from groups when repurposing a machine with an erase install policy. It could similarly be used in conjunction with the add to static group script for help desk, with a self service policy to add and remove a profile or policy for testing purposes.

apiData="<computer_group><computer_deletions><computer><serial_number>${serialNumber}</serial_number></computer></computer_deletions></computer_group>"
curl \
	-s \
	-f \
	-u ${apiUser}:${apiPass} \
	-X PUT \
	-H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
	-d "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>${apiData}" ${jssHost}/JSSResource/computergroups/id/${groupID}