Date Dropdown Menu / Extension Attribute.

[Anonymous]

Hey,

Have any of you guys ever added a custom field where you can have one of your help desk guys enter a date?

Reason being we want to set a bunch of machines to be imaged by a certain date and have that in the JSS for inventory purposes, perhaps creating a smart group for when they pass that date.

Any help much appreciated!

[adamcodega]

Do you want the tech to be asked to enter the date of imaging and then put it somewhere on the Mac? You can ask them using CocoaDialog and a bash script. Then, read that entry with a script to make an extension attribute.

[nessts]

or just have a script that writes the date to a plist, then read the plist for an EA to report on.

[karthikeyan_mac]

Hi,

We use the below commands in the First Boot script to write plist in /Library/Preferences and get the inventory through Extension Attribute.

echo Creating /Library/Preferences/com.xxxxxx.SDI with latest SDI information
date=`date +%m-%d-%y_%H:%M:%S`
serial=$(system_profiler|grep "Serial Number (system)"|awk '{print $4}')
version=$"XXXXXXXX"

# Create and set the SDI.plist
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.xxxxxx.SDI InstalledDate $date
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.xxxxxx.SDI SerialNumber $serial
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.xxxxxx.SDI Version $version

Thanks & Regards,
Karthikeyan M

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all these! @adamcodega @nessts @karthikeyan.mac you rock!