Apple Client Health Dashboard

Description

FileWave is immensely powerful, but can be daunting when it comes to stitching the various components of a complex workflow together.  Content packs are meant to give you a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn by example!  Each content pack is designed to be a "whole solution", putting together all of the pieces of FileWave to accomplish a goal.

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This FileWave Content Pack is built for extensive reporting on the health of managed Apple MDM clients and is comprised of all of the contents listed below:

What You Get in this Content Pack

This content pack provides:

Custom Fields:

"Custom Fields" are a terrific way to extend the "inventory attributes" of your devices.  In this content pack we have included:

Reports (aka Inventory Queries):

Reports are a great way of measuring the effectiveness of distributed content and can be used for all sorts of compliance purposes as well.  Trust, but verify, is what reports are all about.  In this pack we have included the following  reports:

Dashboards:

Dashboards build upon reports and are an incredibly powerful tool for showing aggregated data in charts and graphs.  This pack provides the following dashboard(s):

Ingredients

For FileWave 16.1.0 or higher you merely need to go in FileWave Central to Assistants -> Content Packs and then can add the Content Pack with 1-click. The intructions below in this article are for below 16.1.0. 

Windows Content Pack Windows Content Pack Download

macOS Content Pack (ARM based)

On macOS, we need to use curl for downloading, such that Gatekeeper doesn't quarantine the import application.  You can copy and paste the following into Terminal.app.  The example provided downloads import_pack.zip to the desktop

 

curl -o ~/Desktop/import_pack.zip https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/422

macOS Content Pack (Intel based)

On macOS, we need to use curl for downloading, such that Gatekeeper doesn't quarantine the import application.  You can copy and paste the following into Terminal.app.  The example provided downloads import_pack.zip to the desktop

 

curl -o ~/Desktop/import_pack.zip https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/420

Directions

  1. Download the appropriate content pack above  (based on your admin device's platform) and unzip it
  2. Run the FileWave Uploader tool in the unzipped folder, using appropriate credentials for your environment (check out our overview article on importing content packs here)
  3. Once completed, verify the new content in your system (and import the dashboard)

Sample Screenshots

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Notes

You can freely edit any of the content in this content pack.  We do recommend reviewing each of the types of content as provided first, though, so that you can get a feel for how things "fit together" before modification.

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Revision #8
Created 13 January 2025 14:45:39 by Josh Levitsky
Updated 3 June 2025 20:01:25 by Josh Levitsky