JAMF / Watchman Monitoring ExtensionAttribute

An Extension Attribute to display the current Watchman Monitoring status in a JSS

Additional information at our support article

https://www.watchmanmonitoring.com/jamf

Purpose

This Monitoring Client ships with an ExportStatus tool, for use with third party systems like JAMF's Casper Suite.

Calling

sudo /Library/MonitoringClient/Utilities/ExportStatus

will cause the Monitoring Client to output a summary of the current system status to a plist at:

/Library/MonitoringClient/ClientData/UnifiedStatus.plist

This plist has a summary of all plugin reports, as well boolean keys which indicate whether a computer requires attention.

Plist Contents

The resulting plist contains 5 keys:

Key	Type	Purpose
Client URL	URL	View the full details in the Watchman Monitoring Server
CurrentWarning	BOOL	Is a plugin currently reporting a problem
CurrentNotice	BOOL	Is a plugin currently sending informational output (aside from "all's well")
ReportData	String	A plain-text list of plugins and their status.
ReportTime	DateTime	The time the output was generated

Sample Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>ClientURL</key>
	<string>https://app.monitoringclient.com/computers/YYYYMMDD-XXXX-YYYYYY</string>
	<key>CurrentWarning</key>
	<true/>
	<key>CurrentNotice</key>
	<true/>
	<key>ReportData</key>
	<string>Check Laptop Battery	OK
Check LightSpeed Server	Notice
Check Munki	OK
Check Root Capacity	Warning
Check SoftRAID Volumes	OK
Check Specified Applications	OK
Check Specified Volumes	Warning
Check SuperDuper!	OK
Report Backup Minder Errors	OK
Report CCC Errors	OK
Report Client Status	OK
Report Disk I/O Errors	OK
Report Internal IP Address	OK
Report Kernel Panic Count	OK
Report LightSpeed Server Expirations	Notice
Report LightSpeed Server Webstore Log Errors	OK
Report Malware	OK
Report Network Status	OK
Report POST Errors	OK
Report RAM Errors	OK
Report Reboot Events	Warning
Report SMART Errors	OK
Time Machine Exclusions	OK

https://app.monitoringclient.com/computers/YYYYMMDD-XXXX-YYYYYY</string>
	<key>ReportTime</key>
	<date>2013-10-05T13:49:03Z</date>
</dict>
</plist>