Show packages currently being downloaded

[ftiff]

Some packages take an awful amount of time to download We cannot get this from jamf.log but perhaps from the policy name or the cache folder?

[kylecrawshaw]

@ftiff does the the name of the cache folder typically match the policy or package name?

[ftiff]

Cache folder we can find the packages being downloaded here in/Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/Downloads

$ sudo ls -l /Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/Downloads 
total 53472
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  27374089 Nov 25 09:16 EnterpriseConnect-1.6.2.pkg
$ 

It would be ideal to monitor this folder, as we could even add a progress bar while it is being downloaded (provided we know the size). Unfortunately it needs admin rights as folder is 700

Policy name

We could add a new watch on /var/log/jamf.log for the policy name:

Fri Nov 25 09:16:10 François’s Mac mini jamf[21381]: Executing Policy Enterprise Connect

[RHI0]

Downloads are shown in the JAMF log when JAMF is put into debug mode via: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist global_log_level DEBUG

I run this command as the first thing in my DEP sequence and the last command in my DEP sequence then is: defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist global_log_level DEBUG

This way you'd also be able to parse the log if the download fails or times out and return a red dot if that occurred.