October 19, 2021 by Haddayr Copley-Woods

Scriptorium - backup, versioning and editing of Jamf Pro scripts

Tony Williams, a Macintosh systems engineer with Suncorp, outlines in this JNUC 2021 session how you can use Scriptorium to track changes, backup and quickly and easily upload the scripts from your Mac to your Jamf Pro server.

Tony Williams, a Macintosh systems engineer with Suncorp, struggled to organize and use scripts auto-created by Jamf Pro.

Scriptorium to the rescue!

So he built Scriptorium: a Mac admin tool improving Jamf Pro scripts management.

This session is an installation and operation guide to Scriptorium.

How Scriptorium works

Scriptorium, explains Williams, uses git repositories to provide backup and versioning of two directories on your computer: when an Admin downloads a script from Jamf Pro it stores the XML in one directory that then extracts the actual script from the XML and stores it in its own directory.

How to use Scriptorium

This step-by-step demonstration covers editing scripts in the text directory, propagating the changes and using Scriptorium commands and what to do:

After a file edit
After a commit
After a push

Williams continues to discuss Scriptorium commands in detail such as:

list
delete
down
git
rename
up
verify

He discusses how to use additional, more complex commands such as add, which specifies most of the metadata for a script on the command line, and more. He offers specific instances of code as well as explanations for how to handle multiple users editing a script, and how to pull it all together.

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Haddayr Copley-Woods

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Haddayr Copley-Woods is a senior copywriter at Jamf. She writes about tech, specializing in Apple and Jamf with a focus on education, accessibility and security.