Deploying Updated Mac Dashboard and Technician pages (BESClientUI)

Customizations
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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Greeting Everyone,

This is my first post here and I’m happy to be part of the community.

I’ve put some work into customizing the Mac _dashboard.html and _technician.html. I’m quite pleased with the final product. We’ve verified that the files copy. However, I’m not having luck restarting the agent via the Action.

Here’s the code below:

Action Script

Script Type BigFix Action Script

download http://BIGFIX.DOMAIN-NAME.COM:52311/Uploads/add327cac1c66cea426a30fc305003147fa003e1/__UISupport.tmp


continue if {(size of it = 37503 AND sha1 of it = "add327cac1c66cea426a30fc305003147fa003e1") of file "__UISupport.tmp" of folder "__Download"}


extract __UISupport.tmp


delete "{pathname of (file "__UISupport.tmp" of download folder)}"


parameter "DownloadDir" = "{pathname of (folder "__Download" of client folder of current site)}"


setting "_BESClient_ActionManager_TrayMode"="AlwaysTray" on "{parameter "action issue date" of action}" for client


setting "_BESClient_ActionManager_HasMainDialog"="1" on "{parameter "action issue date" of action}" for client


setting "_BESClient_ActionManager_InitialMainDialogWidth"="660" on "{parameter "action issue date" of action}" for client


setting "_BESClient_ActionManager_InitialMainDialogHeight"="1000" on "{parameter "action issue date" of action}" for client


parameter "BESDataDirMac" = "{pathname of parent folder of client folder of site "actionsite" & "/__UISupport"}"


setting "_BESClient_ActionManager_InitialUITab"="Dashboard" on "{parameter "action issue date" of action}" for client


folder delete "{parameter "BESDataDirMac"}"


folder create "{parameter "BESDataDirMac"}"


delete __createfile


createfile until END_UI_INSTALL_MAC


#!/bin/sh


cp -Rfp "{pathname of client folder of current site & "/__Download"}/__UISupport/*" "/Library/Application Support/BigFix/BES Agent/__BESData/__UISupport"


BESpid=$(ps -ax | grep BESClientUI | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')


if ; then


kill "$BESpid"


launchctl stop com.bigfix.BESAgent


launchctl start com.bigfix.BESAgent


fi


END_UI_INSTALL_MAC


wait chmod +x __createfile


delete ./installClientUI.sh


copy __createfile ./installClientUI.sh


run /bin/sh -c "trap '' 15; ./installClientUI.sh"
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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Found working solution to restart the agent:

if {((version of client > "7.1") AND (exists file "/Library/LaunchDaemons/BESAgentDaemon.plist") AND (system version >= "10.4"))}


appendfile /bin/launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/BESAgentDaemon.plist


appendfile sleep 5


appendfile /bin/launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/BESAgentDaemon.plist


else


appendfile /sbin/SystemStarter stop BESAgent


appendfile sleep 5


appendfile /sbin/SystemStarter start BESAgent


endif
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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Though you have already figured it out, in 9.0 and above there is an even easier way with a new actionscript command:

client restart
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