You Oughta Check Out AutoPkg: Links

If you attended my presentation on AutoPkg today, thanks! Here are the links:

AutoPkg:
http://autopkg.github.io/autopkg
https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg
https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg/releases

AutoPkg recipe repos:
http://github.com/autopkg

JSSImporter:
https://github.com/arubdesu/jss-autopkg-addon

AbsoluteManage Processor:
https://github.com/tburgin/autopkg/blob/master/Code/autopkglib/AbsoluteManageExport.py

AutoPkg Change Notifications script:
http://seankaiser.com/blog/2013/12/16/autopkg-change-notifications/

MacSysAdmin 2013 session:
http://docs.macsysadmin.se/2013/video/Day2Session4.mp4

Steve Yuroff’s AutoPkg and Jenkins notes:
http://swytechnotes.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/autopkg-and-jenkins-under-one-admin-account/

AutoPkg Wiki:
https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg/wiki

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Post-PSU Mac Admins Pre-Conference Workshop

If you attended the workshop today Matt and I led on “Python for Systems Administrators”, thank you! Here are links to some of the additional information and documentation mentioned today:

Course materials:
http://gregneagle.github.io/psumac2014_python/

Cocoa documentation links

Foundation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/reference/foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Functions/Reference/reference.html

CFPreferences:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFPreferencesUtils/Reference/reference.html

Plists and Foundation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/PropertyLists/Introduction/Introduction.html

More documentation:
http://www.python.org/
http://www.diveintopython.net
https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython

PSU Mac Admins Pre-Conference Workshop

My colleague, Matt Schnittker, and I will be leading a half-day pre-conference workshop on “Python for Systems Administrators” on Tuesday, July 8th at PSU Mac Admins Conference 2014. If you are participating in the workshop, please visit here first to get your class materials:

http://gregneagle.github.io/psumac2014_python/

Hope to see you there!

Reporting on Bluetooth Mouse/Keyboard battery status

On the MacEnterprise list (http://lists.psu.edu/archives/macenterprise.html), Michael Edwards posed an interesting question:

Anyone know of a handy way to monitor the status of bluetooth keyboard/trackpad battery levels on remote machines? We have several Mac Mini’s that use them, that are machines with no primary individual user – so it would be handy to get notified (email or similar) when the batteries need to be changed.

So I thought it might be fun to figure out how to answer this.

MacTech Conference 2013

My colleague, Matt Schnittker, and I will be leading a workshop on “Python for Systems Administrators” on Wednesday at MacTech Conference 2013.

If you are planning on participating in the workshop, please visit here first to get your class materials: http://gregneagle.github.io/mtc2013_python/

Hope to see you there!

Undocumented options

Rich Trouton posted today about undocumented options for the asr command-line utility.

On Twitter, Marnin asked:

.@rtrouton The question is what other commands have hidden options?

— Marnin (@gmarnin) April 30, 2013

Lots of OS X utilities have undocumented options. Take for example /usr/sbin/softwareupdate — the command-line Apple Software Update utility.

It’s had several undocumented options for years.