KACE Product Support

We've upgrade our KBE Netboot environment to OS X Lion and the built-in "capture name/replace name" scripts stopped working, below are modified version of the original KACE scripts that seem to work in our Netboot environment hopefully these can help the rest of you that use KACE for imaging MAC's.

(I am by no means a MAC programmer so if anyone has a better suggestion I would love the hear it)

Naming: Collect Mac OS X Computer Name (Preinstallation Task)

#!/bin/bash

MAC=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -getmacaddress Ethernet 2> /dev/null | awk ' { print $3; }' | sed -e s/://g `

TEMP_PATH="/opt/kace/petemp/${MAC}"

IFS=$'\n'
volume=`mount | grep -m 1 disk0`
zeroMount=`echo "$volume" | awk '{ print substr($0,index($0, "on ")+3,index($0, "(")-index($0, "on ")-4) }'`

prefPath=$zeroMount/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

tComputerName=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print System:System:ComputerName" $prefPath`
computerName=`echo $tComputerName | awk '{ print index($0,"Not Exist") }'`
if [ x$computerName == x0 ]; then
computerName=$tComputerName
else
computerName="localhost"
fi

echo $computerName > "${TEMP_PATH}"

exit 0


Naming: Apply Mac OS X Computer Name (Postinstallation Task)


#!/bin/bash

MAC=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -getmacaddress Ethernet 2> /dev/null | awk ' { print $3; }' | sed -e s/://g `

TEMP_PATH="/opt/kace/petemp/${MAC}"

if [ -f "${TEMP_PATH}" ]
then
volume=`mount | grep -m 1 disk0`
zeroMount=`echo "$volume" | awk '{ print substr($0,index($0, "on ")+3,index($0, "(")-index($0, "on ")-4) }'`
COMPNAME=`cat ${TEMP_PATH}`
echo "Computer name is going to be ${COMPNAME}"
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :System:Network:HostNames:LocalHostName ${COMPNAME}" "$zeroMount/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist"
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :System:System:ComputerName ${COMPNAME}" "$zeroMount/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist"
/bin/rm "${TEMP_PATH}"
fi

exit 0


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