munkireport_scheduled

Background

If you're using MunkiReport in combination with Munki, you'll notice that your endpoints perioically check in to MunkiReport shortly after they check into Munki. This is because the default LaunchDaemon for MunkiReport relies on Munki's scheduling.

If you're using MunkiReport, but not Munki, you've got a couple of options to ensure that your endpoints check into MunkiReport.

If you're using Jamf Pro, you can follow these instructions to have the jamf binary perform this task for you.

If you're not using Jamf Pro, or would prefer to do it yourself, you'll need to deploy a custom LaunchDaemon to force your endpoints to check in to MunkiReport. This repo aims to help users do that.

Requirements

Here's what you'll need to build this pkg:

1. To use the included build script, you'll need munkipkg installed at /usr/local/munki-pkg (sudo git clone https://github.com/munki/munki-pkg.git /usr/local/).
2. You'll also need MacAdmins Python installed.
3. You must be running MunkiReport 5.8 or later, since that's the first release to use Python 3.

Instructions

1. Clone or download this repo to your Mac.
2. Open the Terminal, then drag and drop build.sh onto the window.
3. Press return.
4. If all goes well, you should have munkireport_scheduled-1.0.pkg in your build directory.
5. Deploy the newly created pkg with your chosen package deployment system.

Or, just grab the prebuilt pkg from the Releases section.

Credit

Huge thanks to Mat X for providing his own LaunchDaemon - that's what's included here.