Analysing JAMFSoftwareServer.log Messages

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Within a few posts here & during our JNUC 2019 talk, James & I detailed how we at dataJAR deal with managing 100+ Jamf Pro & released a few repos with various items we use day-to-day.

This blog post is concerned with one of those repos, which is titled: JAMFSoftwareServer.log Messages.

The repo can be accessed via the hyperlink above.

This repo contains a list of messages which can appear in the JAMFSoftwareServer.log, with a note as to what action might be required due to the messages being generated.

For more details see below, else click the link & PR’s are welcomed to expand the repo.

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datajar.mobi: A story of Jamf And…

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During JNUC2019, I had the honour of once again presenting alongside my colleague, friend & founder of dataJAR James Ridsdale.

The talk was on some of the methodologies dataJAR employs to fully manage 100+ Jamf Pro instances as a distributed team whilst maintaining a high standard throughout.

During the talk we released a few GitHub repos with items that we use day-to-day to help our fellow admins. These will be covered in further detail over the few weeks.

A link to the talks video can be found below, alongside the talks main GitHub repo.

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Because Jamf Nation

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Jamf Nation is a community that is very dear to my heart, & over the past decade it’s grown from a small mailing list to over 100k accounts registered on Jamf Nation.

During JNUC2019’s day one keynote, 10 years of Jamf Nation was celebrated & Jamf Nations Hall Of Fame was announced.

I was inducted into the Hall Of Fame, alongside some fellow admins. Below is some history on why Jamf Nation holds a special place for me.

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An Evening with the Mule

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As mentioned in my last post, the good folks over at the MacAdmins.org Podcast allowed me on to prattle on about things including AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI.

This was actually some weeks ago, but things have been busy. Apologies for the delay but the details can be found below.

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Farewell AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI

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It has been 5 years since AutoCasperNBI was released, with AutoImagrNBI coming soon afterwards.

However, 5 years is a long time in the world of Apple. And as such, much has changed when it comes to deploying macOS.

NetBoot & Imaging are no longer viable methods for modern macOS deployment, especially when we look at booting off of a network volume to block copy an OS.

As such, today I am ceasing development on both projects & setting their respective GitHub repos as read-only.

In a future episode of the Mac Admins Podcast I go into more detail about the history of how these apps came to be, & I’ll be at JNUC2019 next week raising a glass to both apps.

macOS Software Update custom catalog URL deprecation

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At the recent London Apple Admins, I mentioned that with macOS Catalina setting a custom Software Update catalog URL is now noted as deprecated.

This took some folks by surprise, despite setting a custom Software Update catalog URL.

Below is more details on this deprecation.

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Blocking macOS Catalina with Jamf Pro

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Tonight, Apple released macOS Catalina.

See below on how to block this upgrade with Jamf Pro.

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More DEP Sync Errors

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A week after the recent updated Terms & Conditions, we saw DEP sync errors reappear in our datajar.mobi deployments.

Below is some detail on what has caused these new sync errors & how to resolve.

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Jamf Pro critical security vulnerability – PI-007507

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Last night, Jamf released Jamf Pro 10.13.1 & 10.15.1. These were released due to PI-007507. 

This PI is noted as a “critical security vulnerability” which “does not pose a risk to private data or managed devices. It does have the potential to impact the integrity and availability of your web server” but “impacts versions of Jamf Pro 9.4 and later”

As Jamf Pro 10.15.0 was only released 19 days ago, 10.15.1 is the 10.15.0 release with PI-007507 having been patched.

However, for organisations that are still on Jamf Pro 10.13.0 or below due to the move to Java 11 needed for Jamf Pro 10.14.0+, Jamf have released 10.13.1, which is also patched.

Please read the following Jamf Nation post for more information, & if you’re not on a recent Jamf Pro release please also see this post before any upgrades are attempted.

DEP errors after updated software license agreements

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With the release of iOS 13 last night, new Terms and Conditions were released.

This is an annual update, however your MDM might not have responded as expected.

See below for some more details.

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