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SMART labels based on Folder names

Hi All,

I'm wondering if this is possible somehow with KACE?
I'd like to apply SMART labels to devices based on the name of a folder within the Hard drive.
This folder name differentiates between five separate environments and based on the name I want to apply one or more SMART labels to it for organization.

I need to do this automated as manually it is a big mess right now as the IT group is not consistently updating labels manually and it is causing a problem when we are trying to deploy to one specific environment.

Thank you and please let me know if this is possible.
Asked 8 years ago 1387 views
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  • It would a two step process
    1. Use Custom Inventory Rules (CIR) to do a look up for "DirectoryExists(path)" and it will find the machines thaat have the path you put in between the (). If you aren't sure what CIR areor how to create them, the Admin Guide should help you out there. It is a manually created Software Title.

    2. Once you build the Software title with the CIR, you can then use a SMART label to look up the machines that have that CIR rule and apply a label that way. - nshah 8 years ago
  • Thank you very much for this and it does work as you are saying.

    I have one more thing to take it one step further as I found out that the directory I was targeting may or may not be accurate for the label.

    Is it possible to target a specific logfile and have Kace read a specific entry or value from the file and build a SMART label based on this?

    It looks like it is possible on the MAC side with the Plist entry but I can't find a corresponding value for the windows side. Thank you - jsmart 8 years ago
    • in Windows, you would use either "FileInfoReturn()" if the log file is well-formed, else you could hack together something like: "ShellCommandTextReturn(cmd /c type "%SYSTEMROOT%\[
      YOUR_LOG_PATH]" | find "[YOUR_SEARCH]")" - JasonEgg 8 years ago

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