Use Integromat to get computer IDs from user email in JamF Pro

Last Updated on April 27, 2021 by Jan Bachelor

Table of Contents

Create a Scenario in Integromat
Fill in details for the HTTP module
Run the HTTP module to test it

Create a Scenario in Integromat

Create an account or log into Integromat.
Create a new scenario and select that you desire to use the HTTP module and click on ‘Continue’.

Create a new scenario in Integromat with the HTTP module

Fill in details for the HTTP module

Click on the HTTP module and select ‘Make a request’ to insert it into your scenario.

Select the ‘Make a request’ type of an HTTP request

As the URL, enter the URL to your JamF Pro instance, such as https://yourcompany.jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/users/email/[email protected]
Method: GET
Body type: Raw
Content type: JSON (application/json)
Request content – leave blank
Parse response: tick it
Tick the ‘Show advanced settings. and scroll down to fill in the ‘User name’ and ‘Password’ – credentials that have API access to your JamF Pro instance.
Leave all else as default and click on the ‘OK’ button to save the changes

How to fill in the HTTP module to successfully enquire of JamF Pro API (this is actually one view divided into two to fit onto the screen)

Run the HTTP module to test it

Right click on the module and select ‘Run this module only’.

Run the module that you have just created.

Whether successful or not, click on the number 1 zoom icon to see what happened – focus on the output section.

In case you get a different output then 200, check the previous step of this guide to identify where the issue lies. For example, error 404 would mean that you enquired for a user that is not found in JamF Pro. Make your changes and re-run the module.

Extract a variable from the HTTP output

Since we ticked the box to parse the JSON/XML response from the HTTP GET call, the response is already parsed for us. So what we need to do now is just to save whatever details we need from the output into a variable, in order to use it for additional API calls later.
Create a new module from the Tools -> choose ‘Set a variable’/

Give a variable a name (e.g. ‘Computer ID), leave it on ‘One cycle’ lifetime.
As the variable value, click in the white space and choose ‘Data’ -> ‘users’ -> ‘user[]’ -> ‘links[]’ -> ‘computers[]’ -> ‘computer[]’.

Filter only the computer information for the newly created variable

Sources

Integromat’s guide on how to extract a value from a JSON output

2 comments

Robert Petitto November 14, 2022 - 2:27 pm

Can you share how you’d use Make (integromat) to add a device to a static group in jamf?

Jan Bachelor November 14, 2022 - 9:59 pm

Hi Robert, the static groups were created in the previous step and they were created manually. Once you open a static group in JamF, you will see its ID in the URL – that is how you will know which ID to use in Make.com.

By the way, if you are using Macs, there is another way of allowing people to get admin rights temporarily using the Privileges app. There is no approval per say in the process but the user has to specify what they will use the admin rights for and then they get it for a limited period of time (e.g. 15 minutes). The IT admin can then see the reason in the log and can see in the JamF Pro log what you user did (for the purpose of auditing). If you would be interested in that, I can point you to some resources. Jan