Forcing Munki Client to Install Updates

[P Robles]

Hi

We have a number of users that do not install any new software updates. Is there anyway to configure Munki client to immediately start installing the updates?

Thanks

[David Ross]

Push this out to the selected systems.

/whereveryouputit/managedsoftwareupdate --checkonly --auto

Or am I missing something?

David

[Mike Solin]

Sounds like you want this:

https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files#force-install-after-date

Mike

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[P Robles]

Hi

Mike Solin is right on track. It would be nice to set a date to immediately install if the user has not taken any action.

[Mr. Alan Siu]

"It would be nice..."? Isn't what Mike posted (force install after ___ date) "set[ting] a date to immediately install if the user has not taken any action"?

Or perhaps I'm missing something.

Alan Siu

Client Systems Analyst

St. Ignatius College Preparatory

[Erik Gomez]

If you set your packages to unattended_install they will install (so long as the application is not running) silently on the next munki run. 

[Matt Childress]

Unattended_install will install as long as there are no BLOCKING applications running -- sometimes this will be just the app itself, other times it can be a suite. 

The date/time to immediately install isn't quite correct: managed software update will give a user warnings that it has to be installed by X date and time and it will get progressively more annoying as the time approaches (I _am_ a bad user and I ignore my own updates).  IF you use munki as your initial software load, or add a rogue/new mac user to your munki server and there's a pkginfo file with a force install by date in the past, it will give a countdown period (an hour?)

This page covers both the intricacies of unattended installs and force install AFTER date (scroll down a bit, they're right next to each other)

https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files

M@

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[Gregory Neagle]

On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Matt Childress <chil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unattended_install will install as long as there are no BLOCKING applications running -- sometimes this will be just the app itself, other times it can be a suite. 

The date/time to immediately install isn't quite correct: managed software update will give a user warnings that it has to be installed by X date and time and it will get progressively more annoying as the time approaches (I _am_ a bad user and I ignore my own updates).  IF you use munki as your initial software load, or add a rogue/new mac user to your munki server and there's a pkginfo file with a force install by date in the past, it will give a countdown period (an hour?)

This page covers both the intricacies of unattended installs and force install AFTER date (scroll down a bit, they're right next to each other)

https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files

You can link directly to the sections:

https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files#unattended-installs-and-uninstalls

and

https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files#force-install-after-date

-Greg

[Mr. Alan Siu]

Yeah, it took me a while to realize it, but if you hover your mouse next to any headers on a GitHub readme, a link will appear, so you can get the anchor.

Alan Siu

Client Systems Analyst

St. Ignatius College Preparatory