WEBVTT 00:05.080 --> 00:09.610 In the next section of videos, we're going to discuss using a program called Bootstrappers to get your 00:09.610 --> 00:15.100 computer from an out of state to a production state with as little human interaction as possible. 00:15.910 --> 00:20.860 Now, normally, when you take a computer out of the box and you let it boot up, the Apple setup assistance 00:20.860 --> 00:26.620 starts and the first thing it asks you to do is to create a user account, which then becomes an administrator 00:26.620 --> 00:27.010 account. 00:27.460 --> 00:32.380 Now, if you don't want your end users to become administrators, then you're basically forced to have 00:32.380 --> 00:34.760 someone from your technical team set up the computer. 00:35.350 --> 00:41.440 Now, you may not want your end users to set up their computers, but if you follow this bootstrap or 00:41.440 --> 00:47.410 procedure, then you actually could have end users set up their own computer to start the bootstrap 00:47.470 --> 00:48.070 procedure. 00:48.070 --> 00:50.270 You need to boot your computer into recovery mode. 00:50.650 --> 00:55.900 Now, we're in recovery mode and I'm going to go ahead and run this utility and you're going to see 00:55.900 --> 00:58.960 that we are Bhoot from the recovery partition. 00:58.960 --> 01:02.410 And then we also have a partition on the machine called Macintosh Hard Drive. 01:04.140 --> 01:10.200 Now, if we go into utilities and we change that Macintosh hard drive volume, then you're going to 01:10.200 --> 01:16.650 see that there are no user accounts on this machine and that's because this computer hasn't been run 01:16.650 --> 01:18.860 in the setup assistant hasn't been run yet. 01:19.260 --> 01:22.190 So, again, this computer is in and out of state. 01:22.290 --> 01:29.220 So to start bootstrap or we're going to go ahead and run in HDI util and then attach and then the path 01:29.220 --> 01:31.020 to our bootstrap volume. 01:40.870 --> 01:47.290 And then once it mounts, we're going to go ahead and run the run command off of our bootstrap volume. 01:50.040 --> 01:55.020 And how we get to the food strapper menu, so next we're going to choose the volume that the computer 01:55.020 --> 02:00.570 is going to boot from and in our case, that is Macintosh hard drive next, that's going to run a series 02:00.570 --> 02:01.830 of scripts and packages. 02:01.830 --> 02:06.290 And in order we specify and in our case, the first one is to enter a computer name. 02:06.690 --> 02:11.820 So we're going to go ahead and enter the computer name for this machine and it's going to go ahead and 02:11.820 --> 02:12.870 rename the computer. 02:13.170 --> 02:15.390 And then after that, it's going to run some packages. 02:15.390 --> 02:22.950 So it's installing monkey tools and Monkey Kickstart, which is a which basically puts a monkey into 02:22.950 --> 02:24.570 bootstrap mode, which we'll cover. 02:24.840 --> 02:31.140 And then it's going to run a package to get the setup assistant and then it's going to install a package 02:31.140 --> 02:33.530 to create an administrator account with a known password. 02:33.900 --> 02:38.130 And now it's running a script that's going to allow us to choose what monkey manifests we want to use. 02:38.130 --> 02:43.170 And you can see that there's one based off of a serial number or hostname site default and then one 02:43.170 --> 02:45.570 called Luby or at a box experience. 02:45.570 --> 02:47.510 And we're going to go ahead and choose that one. 02:48.390 --> 02:53.550 And then after that, it's running another script that's going to suppress the diagnostics dialogue 02:53.550 --> 02:59.580 when a user logs in for the first time and it wants to know now if we want to restart or shut down now, 02:59.580 --> 03:02.340 we could shut down and ship this computer somewhere. 03:02.490 --> 03:06.630 And when it boots up, it's going to just it'll already be named. 03:06.630 --> 03:11.340 And then monkey will do whatever work it needs or we can go ahead and restart it, which I'm going to 03:11.340 --> 03:14.850 do, and then the computer will restart and start configuring itself. 03:16.270 --> 03:21.970 So when you take a computer out of the box and you set it up with the setup assistant, you remember 03:21.970 --> 03:26.950 that the Apple remote desktop agent's not set, SSA isn't set. 03:27.130 --> 03:30.380 If you have some other management system, no agent is installed. 03:30.670 --> 03:37.630 So basically what we've done is following a simple procedure with very little user input and without 03:37.630 --> 03:39.990 needing an administrator account or password. 03:40.210 --> 03:45.700 What we've effectively done is taken the computer out of the box and within a couple of minutes the 03:45.700 --> 03:49.930 computer will ultimately be set up by monkey with the correct name, correct. 03:49.940 --> 03:55.420 Active Directory organization unit that will get the right printer will be configured for remote management. 03:55.730 --> 03:57.290 It's got the right manifest. 03:57.290 --> 04:00.340 The monkey is going to do whatever we want to this computer that we need. 04:02.450 --> 04:06.710 All right, so now that the computers boot up, you can see that monkey is running now. 04:06.710 --> 04:08.980 It's in a mode called bootstrap mode. 04:08.990 --> 04:14.960 And what bootstrap mode basically means is, is that monkey is going to run, it's going to finish and 04:14.960 --> 04:19.680 it's going to run again and it's going to keep running until there's no more work for it to do. 04:20.120 --> 04:24.740 And so what that means is monkey will even run again after a reboot instantly. 04:25.100 --> 04:29.930 So right now, it's installing some packages and some mobile config profiles and scripts. 04:30.200 --> 04:36.440 And if any of these are set to reboot the computer, which I've actually made the join domain package 04:36.440 --> 04:39.350 do, then Monkey will go ahead and reboot. 04:39.500 --> 04:42.820 And then monkey after the reboot is going to continue running again. 04:43.040 --> 04:47.990 And like I said, it will just keep on running and running until there's no more work for it to do. 04:48.140 --> 04:51.080 And then the computer will be in a production stage. 04:51.600 --> 04:51.920 All right. 04:51.920 --> 04:55.310 So I'm going to just speed this up so we can see the process. 05:03.680 --> 05:10.370 All right, so as you can see, Monkey is finished installing stuff, but it was given a command to 05:10.370 --> 05:12.620 reboot, which that it's going to do now. 05:12.860 --> 05:17.140 And then after it comes back up from the reboot, you'll see monkeys start running again. 05:27.740 --> 05:33.350 All right, so as you can see, the computers back up and monkeys started again and it's found no additional 05:33.350 --> 05:36.050 work to do, so now we have the ability to log in. 05:36.230 --> 05:39.560 And right now our computer is in a production state. 05:53.780 --> 05:58.370 All right, so as you can see, when we logged in, we went directly to the desktop, we weren't asked 05:58.370 --> 06:02.750 any of the questions that you normally get asked when you log into a system for the first time. 06:03.360 --> 06:05.900 And so I want to point out a couple of things. 06:05.900 --> 06:11.540 And that is, first of all, if we go to sharing, you can see that our computer name is named how we 06:11.540 --> 06:13.240 set it in Bootstrap. 06:13.250 --> 06:17.370 Our remote log in is turned on in remote management or also turned on. 06:17.570 --> 06:24.740 So already our computer is manageable, not to mention the fact that that monkey has been installed 06:24.740 --> 06:25.960 and we have a manifest. 06:26.930 --> 06:34.970 So in addition, a user account, an administrator user account has been set up with a password that 06:34.970 --> 06:37.640 the person that set the computer up doesn't even know. 06:38.000 --> 06:44.900 And it was joined to our domain, which is how we were able to log in with our network account and when 06:44.900 --> 06:46.370 we go to profiles. 06:47.310 --> 06:53.030 You can see that we have a bunch of profiles, including our Velzy preferences or active directory, 06:53.040 --> 06:59.340 joined us to the right organizational unit, and there's some new mobile config profiles here that we 06:59.340 --> 07:00.600 haven't worked with yet. 07:00.810 --> 07:06.120 And we have one to skip the remaining questions that Mojave asked you when you log in for the first 07:06.120 --> 07:11.270 time like like light or dark appearance, privacy and iCloud set up. 07:11.580 --> 07:16.890 And then there's also another mobile config profile that skips a firewall question, which we'll get 07:16.890 --> 07:18.300 to in the next section. 07:19.890 --> 07:27.240 Now, we also have gotten our printer installed, and if we go to the applications menu, you'll see 07:27.240 --> 07:33.120 that we have Velzy installed in Velshi only and that was just for demonstration purposes. 07:33.450 --> 07:39.270 If we launch Velzy, you'll see that we're not going to get any the first run questions because our 07:39.630 --> 07:41.490 preference is packages were applied. 07:41.940 --> 07:49.230 And then if we go to monkey and let Monkey run, then you'll see that if we go to software, we have 07:49.230 --> 07:51.270 some optional software to install. 07:51.840 --> 07:59.040 So as you can see, bootstrappers with monkey is pretty powerful that a non admin user can go ahead 07:59.040 --> 08:05.220 and set up a machine, name it, and effectively it will join the domain, install whatever software 08:05.220 --> 08:07.110 that you want or as little as you want. 08:07.470 --> 08:11.010 And you could have your end users install whatever software they want. 08:11.010 --> 08:15.030 Or you could push out all the software that you want to them automatically. 08:15.540 --> 08:22.320 Getting a computer from out of the box to production just takes a few minutes and very little user interaction. 08:22.530 --> 08:26.760 And in the next section, I'm going to teach you how to install your own bootstrap or environment.