jautomate 0.0.23

Automates MDM tasks using the Jamf APIs

Jautomate

This tool automates MDM tasks on Jamf using the Jamf Pro and Jamf Classic API. For now there are only tasks focused on mobile devices. Computer versions of those tasks are in the works.

Installation

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A pip installation will be set up once the build has been tested. For now you can install it from the testing PyPi server with this command:

python3 -m pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ jautomate

Setup

Env Variables

You have to define the following environment variables in a .env file to connect to your Jamf Pro server.

JPS_USERNAME=[Username]
JPS_PASSWORD=[Password]
JPS_URL=[Url]

Basic Usage

This tool runs from the command line and has basic help information built into it. To access the help functions use the command:

jautomate --help

Available Commands

Assign a device

Add student information to a device record in Jamf Pro

jautomate assign [DEVICE_TYPE] [ASSET_TAG] [SERIAL_NUMBER] [STUDENT_NAME] [HOMEROOM] [STUDENT_GRADE] [BUILDING]

Required arguments

DEVICE_TYPE	Type of device being updated. {mobile / computer}
ASSET_TAG	Asset tag should be a 6 digit number
SERIAL_NUMBER	Serial Number of device
STUDENT_NAME	Student full name
HOMEROOM	Homeroom teachers last name
STUDENT_GRADE	Student grade as a number
BUILDING	Building names as used in Jamf Pro

Unassign a device

Remove student information from device record in Jamf Pro.

jautomate unassign [DEVICE_TYPE] [ASSET_TAG]

Required arguments

DEVICE_TYPE	Type of device being updated. {mobile / computer}
ASSET_TAG	Asset tag should be a 6 digit number

Sync multiple device records

Syncs data from a csv file of device records to Jamf Pro. Devices must all be of same type (mobile/computer.)

jautomate sync [DEVICE_TYPE] [FILE_PATH]

Required arguments

DEVICE_TYPE	Type of devices being updated. {mobile / computer}
FILE_PATH	The path to the csv file to be imported

Development

References for dev/testing

# Run this line from the same directory as setup.py
python -m build 
# To test the build you can install/re-install with this line.
pip install dist/jautomate-0.0.7-py3-none-any.whl --force-reinstall