2023 demo B TOC

Hands On, Real-time Jamf APIs Using ruby-jss

The Demo

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In the following demo I'll be doing just that!

I'll use irb and ruby-jss in a Terminal session to connect to a live Jamf Pro server and do things in realtime.

The things we do in irb apply directly to writing programs for automating repeated tasks. Just like bash code can be run live in a shell, or executed from a file, so can ruby be run live in irb, or exectuted from a file; the code is the same in both situations.

Here's what we'll cover:

• Overview
• Launching irb & connecting to the API
• Realtime Tasks
  • Simple Lists of Computer Groups
  • A Quick Report
  • Fetching Objects
  • Creating Objects
  • Adding Computers to a Group
  • Changing an Extention Attribute Value
  • Deleting Things
• Saving & Running a Scripted Task
• Documentation
• Advanced ruby-jss
• More Links and Resources

More advanced stuff I won't cover in the demo, but may be mentioned:

• Client-side coding
• Scoping & Scope objects
• Criteria & Criterion objects
• Multiple simultaneous API connections
• Security considerations
• Server Clustering

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