Custom Inventory to capture the Model Identifier

[mabdelnabi]

Greetings,

 

So I'm trying to create a custom inventory that would capture Macs model identifier -i.e. MacBookPro9,2.-

I created a custom data class and named it Model_Identifier. I also added just one Attribute called Model and did not make it key or required.

I'm getting really stuck on getting a script going. This is what I have so far:

. `aex-helper info path -s INVENTORY`/lib/helpers/custominv_inc.sh
#
# Sample script for custom inventory
# The first line of code should be always included at the begin of the script
# Actual script for collecting inventory data begins after the following label:
# SCRIPT_BEGINS_HERE
#!/bin/sh

echo Model_Identifier
echo "Delimiters=\" \" "
echo string50
echo model
sysctl hw.model | awk '{print $2}'

 

It completes successfully but it never adds anything to the database.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Migration User]

Greetings,

I've tried to reproduce your scenario and actually succeeded to gather custom inventory and collected info became nicely visible on Console side.

I created client task by copy-pasteing your custom inventory script as you posted it and defined 'Model_Identifier' Custom Inventory data class with single attribute:

Name: model

Data type: string

Maximum size: 50

Key: yes

Data required: yes

Probably problem is in the settings 'Key' and 'Data required' which should be 'yes', but yours were set to 'no'.

Try to change them in the data class setup and re-run task again on your Mac computer(s).

Another possible problem: do you have valid Inventory solution license installed? Custom Inventory consumes Inventory license in the same way as standard agent-based Inventory does. 

Thanks.

 

[mabdelnabi]

Working now! It was the Data and key required suggestion that did it.

 Thanks again!