Endpoint Protection

I am new to Macs and thought this process would be fairly simple but it turns out it is not (for me at least).  I am attempting to copy a SyLink.xml file for SEP to our Mac clients.  This would allow us to turn an unmanaged Mac client to a managed one.  I would like an example script if anyone has one already of how to do this.

There are a couple ways to do this with CMS.  The 'cheater' way would be to create a software resource for the xml file, and then have the install command (I'm not sure where the file needs to be installed, so f be something like:

cp SyLink.xml /Library/Application\ Support/Symantec/SMC/SyLink.xml

The other option would to mount a network share where the file is located, and then copy it from the network location to the local computer.  Something like:

#!/bin/sh

When I attempt this command I get the following error:

mount: realpath /Volumes/ts$: No such file or directory

When I manually map this drive using the smb:// command it works fine.

ah yes, sorry, I forgot, before you mount the directory, you have to create it...

We are making progress!  I was able to manually mount the share using a putty command line window.  Now I need to do it in my actual script.  My password does contain special characters.  How would I go about inserting a ! and $ value for example?

If for example, your password was 'Bacon!$good', you would change it to 'Bacon%21%24good'.  Find an ascii table, it will help you convert any special characters.

Are you loading a NS 7 agent onto your macs?  If so, it wouldn't be hard to deploy through the SMP.  Using Putty to login to each machine would be tedious.

Yes I am.  It is in my experience best to test via a command line first though to ensure there are no errors which are sometimes harder to read when executing via the SMP.

I got my script to work.  Thank you so much for your help!

It is a lot easier if you create a software package in the SMP, and then deploy it like a quick delivery task.  You could avoid the entire need to mount a share.  Instead, your install command would just be the act of copying the xml file.