In case you’re using DEP and haven’t noticed this, you need to accept the latest terms of service in the Apple license agreement for DEP if you’re going to continue using the service. I don’t usually post emails I get from Apple, but I can easily see orgs using accounts that don’t have email flowing to anyone that is capable of responding, so I strongly recommend you go in and accept the latest and greatest agreements so your stuff doesn’t break! Here’s the email I got from Apple: Apple Deployment Programs Thank you for participating in the Device Enrollment Program. On September 13 Apple will release updated software license agreements.…
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Gist to fully reset Profile Manager
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Troubleshoot Spotlight Indexing Issues Using mddiagnose
Spotlight just kinda’ works. Except when it doesn’t. Which is luckily pretty rare, for the use cases that Spotlight was designed for. But when it doesn’t work, you have a few tools that I’ve highlighted over the years to help you out, including articles on shared volumes, manually indexing, disabling Spotlight, and a few others. But what if you need to go in more depth to isolate an issue? For this, Apple has provided us with a tool called mddiagnose, in /usr/bin. In the following command, we’ll run an mddiagnose to dump a bunch of system statistics that we can then look at. Here, we’ll do that to a folder…
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ARD 3.7
Apple has released the client and server updates for Apple Remote Desktop. Both are now available on the App Store. For official information of the server update, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5896?viewlocale=en_US. New features include: Support for OS X Mavericks A shared clipboard which allows automatic copy and paste between local and remote computers Improved support for Mac systems with multiple displays or multiple IP addresses Enhanced multi-observe with gesture support for swiping between screens Output of remote UNIX commands is no longer truncated The client update documentation is at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5896?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US.
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Setting Up Open Directory Replicas With Lion Server
In Lion Server, Open Directory can be managed in one of three ways: using the Server application the Server Admin application or using the command line utilities. Configuring Open Directory has never been easier than it is in the Server application, though. As we looked at in a previous article, setting up an Open Directory master should be done using the Server application. But setting up an Open Directory replica should be done using the Server Admin application. The Server Admin application is not installed when you buy OS X Server on the App Store and so it can be obtained here. But first (or while that’s downloading even), open…
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Podcast Producer Error Codes
When you are using Podcast Producer, whether you are looking in your log files on a server in Server Admin or whether you are looking in Console on a client, if there are any problems submitting jobs you should find a numeric reference code. The meaning can be cryptic, although I’ll try a little bit here: -500 = Camera agent went offline -501 = Podcast Producer agent timed out -502 = Agent failed to communicate -600 = Tunnel protocol mismatch -601 = Tunnel could not connect -602 = Tunnel timed out -603 = Tunnel failed 1 = Internal camera agent is failing 3 = Capture failed to run 4 =…
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Xsan: Corruption
Volumes can become corrupt no matter what file system you are talking about (er, there might a magical file system out there that cannot become corrupted but I’ve never heard of it and would like to sell a certain bridge to you if you have). Xsan is no different and so you need to be ready to use the command line to combat said corruption. fsck is the traditional *nix tool to fix issues with volume corruption. cvfsck is the weird cousin that’s used for Xsan. If you see any iNode errors in your logs, corruption errors, high latency or just too many weird issues to shake a stick at…