Awesome

Overview

These are some utilities, tools, and scripts for managing and tracking a fleet of Macintoshes in a corporate environment. We expect to use this primarily as a repository for small scripts or tools that don't warrant a standalone project.

can_haz_image

Automation tool for creating images

crankd

Extras for crankd to log application usage

deprecation_notifier

A nagging utility intended to provoke users into doing major OS upgrades.

facter

A simple fact for tracking application usage. A class for caching custom fact values.

gmacpyutil

Python modules with useful methods for managing and controlling Macintosh computers

keychainminder

A SecurityAgentPlugin to keep the login keychain synchronized in enterprise environments.

macdestroyer

A package that attempts to render the target machine unbootable.

momenu

A menubar item with a plug-in architecture which allows admins to create anything that helps their fleet: from setting user preferences to reporting on machine status.

planb

A host remediation program for managed Macs. Securely downloads disk images from your server and installs contained packages.

run_it

A utility to measure the system impact of a process.

Related Projects

Simian is an enterprise-class Mac OS X software deployment solution.

Munki is a set of package management tools.

Santa is a binary whitelisting/blacklisting solution for OS X. It features a kernel extension that monitors executions, and a GUI agent that alerts the user that a binary is blocked. Read more at the Santa repo: https://github.com/google/santa

Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end solution for automatically enabling and escrowing keys for FileVault 2.

PyMacAdmin is another collection of Python utilities for Mac OS X system administration, the main piece of which is crankd

Contact

We have a public mailing list at google-macops@googlegroups.com

Disclaimer

This is not an official Google product.