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These posts are being re-created from old Jamf Nation posts not because they are the best but because they may have useful things that were mangled in the Jamf Nation transition to its most recent hosting platform.

That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

Note

The Jamf Pro API basic authentication method used in this script is deprecated. See the following links for updated auth methods:


You may never want this because your policy names match some convention, or your Self Service display names do, or, whatever. This is just a good find & replace technique for labels in Jamf that can be used pretty much anywhere.

#!/bin/bash


apipsw=''
apiurl=''
apiusr=''


# get the object id for every Policy
policyids=($(/usr/bin/curl -LSs -H "Accept: application/xml" -u "$apiusr:$apipsw" "$apiurl/policies" | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath "//policies/policy/id/text()" - | /usr/bin/tr '</id>' '')); /bin/sleep 1


# for each Policy check if Self Service is enabled
for x in "${policyids[@]}"
do
	selfservice="$(/usr/bin/curl -LSs -H "Accept: application/xml" -u "$apiusr:$apipsw" "$apiurl/policies/id/$x" | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath "//policy/self_service/use_for_self_service/text()" -)"; /bin/sleep 1

	# if Self Service is enabled get the Policy Display Name label from Jamf Pro UI
	if [ "$selfservice" = 'true' ]
	then
		echo "id $x is a Self Service Policy"
	
		displayname=$(/usr/bin/curl -LSs -H "Accept: application/xml" -u "$apiusr:$apipsw" "$apiurl/policies/id/$x" | /usr/bin/xmllint --xpath "//policy/general/name/text()" -); /bin/sleep 1
	
		# change the Self Service Policy Display Name to the Jamf Pro Display Name
		/usr/bin/curl -LSs -X PUT -H "Content-type: application/xml" -d "<policy><self_service><self_service_display_name>$displayname</self_service_display_name></self_service></policy>" -u "$apiusr:$apipsw" "$apiurl/policies/id/$x"
	
		echo "Self Service display name set to: $displayname"; echo
	fi
done


Source: https://community.jamf.com/general-discussions-2/remember-that-time-you-wanted-all-of-your-self-service-display-names-to-actually-match-your-policy-names-14733