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Entering Jamf Cloud Settings

With App Portal, you can deliver a universal enterprise app store that includes both Windows and OS X desktop applications. You can connect App Portal to a Jamf Cloud and create catalog items for OS X desktop applications. This gives you deployment automation and control.

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To deploy Apple iOS mobile apps, you need to connect to an Workspace ONE UEM server, as described in Entering Workspace ONE UEM Settings. In order for App Portal to be successfully integrated with Jamf Cloud, your Jamf Cloud account needs to have a specific set of minimum permissions. For more information, see Required Jamf Cloud Account Permissions. For information on the API calls used by App Portal when integrating with Jamf Cloud, see API Calls Used by App Portal to Integrate with Jamf Cloud.

To connect App Portal to a Jamf Cloud, you need to enter settings on the Jamf Cloud tab of the Site Management > Settings > Deployment view.

Entering Jamf Cloud Details​

In addition to entering the Jamf Cloud connection details, you also need to enter Jamf Cloud policy information. Jamf Cloud policies allow you to remotely perform common management tasks on managed computers. For example, you can run scripts, manage accounts, and distribute software using a policy. For App Portal to create a policy and a static group, it needs a template for each of these.

To enter Jamf Cloud details, perform the following steps:

To enter Jamf Cloud details:

  1. Open the Site Management > Settings > Deployment view.
  2. Open the Jamf Cloud tab. The Jamf CloudJamf Cloud Details are listed.
  3. In the Jamf Cloud URL field, enter the URL to your Jamf Cloud.
  4. Enter the User Name and Password to your Jamf Cloud.
  5. In the App Portal Policy folder field, enter the folder/category in Jamf Cloud under which the policies created by App Portal will reside.
  6. In the Policy template name field, enter the name of the policy in Jamf Cloud which can be used as a template.
  7. In the Computer group template name field, enter the name of the static group in Jamf Cloud which can be used as a template.
  8. In the Authentication Type drop-down field, Bearer Token option will be selected by default. Depending on the authentication type you are using, either keep Bearer Token selected or select Basic to use Basic Authentication.
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Make sure that the Basic Authentication is enabled in the Jamf Cloud console if intended to be used.

  1. Click Test to test connection settings. If successful, the following message is displayed:

Jamf Cloud settings are valid.

Entering Jamf Cloud XPath Mapping Settings​

The Jamf Cloud XPath Mapping area of the Jamf Cloud tab provides a means for you to adapt to changes to the Jamf Cloud APIs that may occur in future releases of Jamf Cloud.

App Portal uses these XPaths to access values from the API results sent from Jamf Cloud. If any of these change in the Jamf Cloud API in the future, you can make the corresponding necessary changes here.

There is no need to modify these XPath mapping settings. But, If, at some future time Jamf Cloud changes their XPath mapping settings to something different, you can update these values by performing the following steps.

To enter Jamf Cloud XPath status mapping settings:

  1. Open the Site Management > Settings > Deployment view.
  2. Open the Jamf Cloud tab. The Jamf Cloud XPath Mapping settings are listed.
  3. Make any edits, as required.
  4. Click Save .

Entering Jamf Cloud Machine Name Configuration Additional Properties​

The Jamf Cloud Machine Name Configuration area of the Jamf Cloud tab provides a means for you to change user computer mappings that App Portal utilizes for Jamf Cloud. By default, App Portal maps to Jamf Cloud using email addresses. Changing the mapping lets you map to Jamf Cloud with UserName Or FullName Or DisplayName . In some environments, the user name has a unique ID which helps uniquely identify each user. If you enter additional properties in the Jamf Cloud Machine Name Configuration section and a sync is performed, the Macintosh machine name will get appended with the additional properties and the entire string will be treated as a machine name. For example:

  • If the Macinstoch machine name is MacABC and you have configured an additional property as mac_address then the machine name will be the entire string: MacABC; 0C:4D:E9:CD:EC:C4.
  • If you have configured the additional property as serial_number,udid then the machine name will look similar to the following:
    MacABC; C07NG0W4DWYL; AEB468FF-904B-5D76-8167-392761E942CD.

To enter additional properties for Jamf Cloud machine name configuration:

  1. Open the Site Management > Settings > Deployment view.
  2. Open the Jamf Cloud tab. The Jamf CloudJamf Cloud Details are listed.
  3. In the Jamf Cloud URL field, enter the URL to your Jamf Cloud.
  4. Enter the User Name and Password to your Jamf Cloud.
  5. In the App Portal Policy folder field, enter the folder/category in Jamf Cloud under which the policies created by App Portal will reside.
  6. In the Policy template name field, enter the name of the policy in Jamf Cloud which can be used as a template.
  7. In the Computer group template name field, enter the name of the static group in Jamf Cloud which can be used as a template.
  8. In the Authentication Type drop-down field, Bearer Token option will be selected by default. Depending on the authentication type you are using, either keep Bearer Token selected or select Basic to use Basic Authentication.

serial_number,mac_address,udid

See Also

Jamf Cloud Tab

Enabling the “Create Uninstall Policy” Option for a Jamf Cloud Package

Required Jamf Cloud Account Permissions

API Calls Used by App Portal to Integrate with Jamf Cloud