The Forgotten Goldmine - Tips and Tricks for Visualizing the Data in Your Jamf Pro Environment

Presentation from JNUC 2018, the world's largest rally of Apple IT administrators.

Session:
The Forgotten Goldmine - Tips and Tricks for Visualizing the Data in Your Jamf Pro Environment

Presented by:
Paul Cowan, University of Waikato
Erin McDonald, Jamf

View all session slides, recordings and more at https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2018/.

Transcript

2. © JAMF Software, LLC Paul Cowan ICT Relationship Manager University of Waikato Erin McDonald Professional Services Engineer Jamf
3. © JAMF Software, LLC The Forgotten Goldmine - Tips and Tricks for Visualising Your Jamf Pro Data
4. © JAMF Software, LLC Visualizing the health of our devices
5. © JAMF Software, LLC Requesting data from the API (cURL)
6. © JAMF Software, LLC Requesting data from the API (Sheets)
7. © JAMF Software, LLC
8. © JAMF Software, LLC Smart group vs advanced search?
9. © JAMF Software, LLC
10. © JAMF Software, LLC Visualising data from the API
11. To update, double-click to edit master © JAMF Software, LLC Visualising data from the API
12. © JAMF Software, LLC Visualising data from the API Smashing • Fork of Dashing (created by the Shopify Team) • https://smashing.github.io • Ruby framework
13. © JAMF Software, LLC Visualising data from the API
14. © JAMF Software, LLC What’s a webhook?
15. © JAMF Software, LLC iBeacons, how convoluted can we get? iBeaconStateChange(!)
16. © JAMF Software, LLC iBeacons, how convoluted can we get? SmartGroupComputerMembershipChange SmartGroupMobileDeviceMembershipChange https://servername/APICall1.php
 https://servername/APICall2.php
 https://servername/APICall3.php… iBeaconStateChange(!)
17. © JAMF Software, LLC iBeacons, how convoluted can we get? Send email, notify Slack channel, hire Skywriters via creepy Google Duplex API mobiledevicecommands API call(s) to engage Lost Mode, erase the device, or change the background wallpaper Update digital signage with an appropriate alert
18. © JAMF Software, LLC Extension attributes & Interactivity
19. © JAMF Software, LLC Design advice for your dashboard • ‘The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory’ Miller’s Law
20. © JAMF Software, LLC Design advice for your dashboard • ’People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us’ Law of Pragnanz
21. © JAMF Software, LL THANK YOU!