How to check what the active state of managedsoftwareupdate is?

[miq...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Can the active status of munki client be guessed from currently running managedsoftwareupdate processes?

I was thinking to implement a service window agent which should know what munki is currently doing (checking, installing) before violently rebooting Mac and possibly breaking a sw installation.

br,

-MiqViq

[Alan]

I don't think there's a command flag for managedsoftwareupdate that checks the status, but you could conceivably check the /Library/Managed Installs/Logs/ManagedSoftwareUpdate.log file to see what's happening.

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[Gregory Neagle]

If by this you mean “can I check to see if managedsoftwareupdate is running?” You can can do what managedsoftwareupdate itself does to see if another instance is running. It’s basically:

ps -eo 'pid=,command=' | grep -i python | grep managedsoftwareupdate

If that returns anything, managedsoftwareupdate is running.

-Greg

[miq...@gmail.com]

Yes, ps shows that munki is doing "something" but is there any way to inspect what is it doing exactly? Like downloading, installing, etc?
I guess that one should check the latest events in the logs?

-MiqViq

[Gregory Neagle]

Other than looking at the logs, no. I’d think that would be terribly fragile.

-Greg

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[miq...@gmail.com]

Yes, that seems to be the most reliable way.

Thanks!

-MiqViq