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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.


I posted this in the Mac admins Slack & kind of forgot to post it here…

Just a 1st crack at it, but, I put this in Self Service so users can run the networkQuality tests.

  • It gives the user the choice to run the parallel or serial test
  • It shows a progress screen
  • It displays the results at the end of the test in a dialog

You may need to set AppleScript PPPC exceptions but these osascript commands for the most part on recent versions of macOS should be fine without them.

Enjoy!

P.S. macOS Monterey only (not anything earlier) as far as I know… Sorry.

#!/bin/zsh

filpth='/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources'
tsttyp=$(/usr/bin/osascript -e "choose from list {\"Download + Upload Speed\", \"Video Conferencing\"} with title \"Network Quality Test\" with prompt \"Please select test type to begin:\"")

case "$tsttyp" in
                    'false' ) exit ;;
  'Download + Upload Speed' ) icnsnm='GenericNetworkIcon' option='-sv' ;;
       'Video Conferencing' ) icnsnm='GroupIcon' option='-v' ;;
esac

/usr/bin/osascript -e "display dialog \"Test in progress...\n\" buttons {\"Cancel\"} with icon POSIX file \"$filpth/$icnsnm.icns\" with Title \"Network Quality Test - $tsttyp\"" &
prgpid=$!
/usr/bin/networkquality "$option" | /usr/bin/sed '/SUMMARY/d' > /private/tmp/summary.txt &

while true
do
    if [ -n "$(/bin/cat /private/tmp/summary.txt)" ]
    then
        break
    fi

    if /bin/kill -s 0 "$prgpid"
    then
        >&2 echo "waiting for networkquality..."; /bin/sleep 3
    else
        exit
    fi
done

>&2 echo "$(/bin/cat /private/tmp/summary.txt)"
/usr/bin/osascript -e "display dialog \"$(/bin/cat /private/tmp/summary.txt)\" buttons {\"Ok\"} default button 1 with icon POSIX file \"$filpth/$icnsnm.icns\" with Title \"Network Quality Test - $tsttyp\""
/bin/rm -rf /private/tmp/summary.txt
/bin/kill -9 "$prgpid"

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Source: https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/the-networkquality-is-not-strained/m-p/254301