Re: Apple System Profiler
Re: Apple System Profiler
- Subject: Re: Apple System Profiler
- From: Bill Tandy <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:35:44 -0600
On 3/11/2001 9:56 AM Sander Tekelenburg email@hidden wrote:
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At 12:00 +0000 UTC, on 09/03/2001, email@hidden wrote:
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4) The information that ASP grabs seems to be dependant upon its preferences,
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under "choose the info you want to appear iun a report". This doesn't seem to
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be scriptable (which makes it particularly useless for distributed scripts).
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Unless of course the "[with data anything] and [with properties record] "
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options apply here...?
I found the same was true in MacOS 8.6 so you might try what I did. I
haven't made anything for 9.x yet.
What I did was make as many different preference files for ASP as I could,
renaming each of them and storing them in a folder in the bottom of the
System Folder.
Then I used my script to replace the ASP Preferences file with
whichever pre-made settings file I wanted before my script activated
ASP each time.
I never had any luck scripting ASP directly to change its own
preference settings, as you pointed out.
I'd like to hear what anyone else has done with ASP. It's implementation
of the dictionary seems to get progressively more bizarre with each new
version. I think what we all see as its potential (but haven't realized)
is the ability to collect a profile from every networked computer and set
the profiles into a Filemaker Pro database. Now Network Administrator
Toolkit has evolved enough in MacOS 9 that I'm thinking NAT would be
better suited than ASP to profile my networked computers. Has anyone
tried scripting NAT?
-Bill Tandy
Austin, Texas