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How Zluri Helps With Jamf Automation in 2024?

Rohit Rao

3rd January, 2024

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As an IT manager, you’re well aware of the significant time your team dedicates to use Jamf Pro on a daily basis. Your responsibilities encompass maintaining the seamless operation of Jamf Pro. It starts from registering devices to users to triggering device locking, ensuring secure management of devices in your organization.

What if we tell you that a substantial portion of these tasks could be automated? That's right–and this is where the integration of Jamf with Zluri proves to be indispensable. Zluri empowers you with Jamf automation, optimizing efficiency and enhancing your team's overall productivity.

Jamf Pro serves as a pivotal platform for mobile device management, ensuring seamless control and optimization of mobile devices within your organization. Its functionality extends to streamline device provisioning, application deployment, and security management, making it an indispensable tool for your IT team. 

While the benefits of Jamf Pro are evident, certain manual tasks within the platform can consume valuable time and resources. Tasks like enrolling devices to users, removing users from devices, locking devices, etc. demand significant attention. The benefit is that Jamf automation can alleviate this time investment, and that's precisely where Zluri steps in to assist you. 

Through seamless integration of Zluri + Jamf Pro, Zluri provides a comprehensive overview of users holding Jamf licenses. This includes insights into their frequency of usage and a detailed breakdown of the specific features they are leveraging. Zluri's integration with Jamf goes beyond basic metrics, offering a deep dive into user interactions within your Jamf environment. 

Efficiently manage your Jamf spending by tracking usage patterns and expenses with Zluri's integrated analytics. The Zluri+Jamf integration simplifies the complexities of registering devices, enrolling devices, or removing users from devices, enhancing the overall user experience, and optimizing your Jamf deployment.

Streamline Tasks in Jamf using Zluri's Automation Capabilities

You can simplify the tasks through Jamf automation. Let's see how.

1. Registering devices for your organization & enrolling users

Revolutionize your device management with Zluri + Jamf, offering seamless device enrollment and user allocation for unparalleled organizational efficiency. Through the seamless integration of Zluri with Jamf, you gain the power to effortlessly register devices to the organization and allocate users to specific devices with precision.

Unlock the potential of Zluri + Jamf to streamline your device enrollment processes. Imagine this: upon the purchase of devices, the IMEI numbers are instantly assigned to specific groups through Zluri. Leveraging the integration, you can then auto-trigger enrollment workflows on Jamf, ensuring that each device is promptly added to its designated group or department.

Take the onboarding process to the next level with Zluri + Jamf. When a new employee joins the organization, Zluri orchestrates a seamless workflow via Jamf to allocate a device based on their department. 

For instance, imagine a new employee joining your company. With Zluri, you can initiate a seamless onboarding process. Simply register their devices, granting immediate access to their required devices. Meanwhile, Zluri also facilitates the integration of SSO via trusted services like Google or Okta, enhancing security and user experience. 

As part of this streamlined workflow, Zluri also takes care of provisioning accounts in vital apps such as Slack, ensuring your team is equipped and ready to collaborate from day one.

2. Monitor installed software usage and licenses

Zluri+Jamf provides automation capability that simplifies the daunting task of monitoring installed Jamf licenses across your organization. Zluri provides a centralized dashboard with a real-time overview of their license landscape. No more manual spreadsheets or tedious data reconciliation—Zluri does the heavy lifting for you.

Imagine a scenario where an employee switches roles or departs from the company. Zluri's automation immediately detects these changes and adjusts the Jamf licenses accordingly. 

For instance, if an employee transitions from a role requiring extensive device management to one with minimal requirements, Zluri automatically frees up unnecessary licenses, preventing overages and optimizing costs. This proactive approach ensures that your organization is always right-sized when it comes to Jamf licenses.

Software Usage Patterns: Leverage Zluri+Jamf integration to discern software usage patterns among users. Understand how frequently team members are accessing Jamf Pro, identify key features they utilize, and explore their interaction with various platform aspects. This valuable information aids in optimizing workflows and ensuring effective utilization of Jamf resources.

3. Disable access, trigger device locking, and remove user accounts in Jamf

Empower your offboarding process effortlessly with Zluri integrated with Jamf, offering seamless workflows to disable access and remove user accounts. Imagine this: when a user is removed from the identity provider (IDP), an automatic trigger is initiated in Jamf to not only lock the associated device but also disable access across all applications.

Let's delve into the simplicity of Zluri's workflows with another scenario. Upon deletion from the IDP, you can configure a workflow to seamlessly disable access in Jamf, ensuring the user is promptly deprovisioned from all applications. Picture this in action: as soon as the IDP removal is confirmed, the user's account is automatically disabled in Jamf, securing your network and safeguarding sensitive data.

Take control of your offboarding strategy with Zluri + Jamf, where every step is streamlined for efficiency and security. For instance, when an employee departs, Zluri and Jamf work in harmony to not only lock the user's device but also disable access comprehensively, ensuring a smooth and secure transition for your organization.

4. Update & delete configuration scripts automatically

Empower your enterprise with the seamless integration of Zluri and Jamf, allowing you to effortlessly manage configuration scripts for automated app installations and updates. A configuration script, consisting of a series of commands in a file executed sequentially, streamlines processes traditionally performed manually.

Through Zluri, you gain the ability to create, update, and delete configuration scripts, all of which can be executed on users' devices via Jamf. This not only results in substantial time and effort savings due to the automation of the entire process but also eliminates the potential for faulty configurations and installations.

For instance, consider a scenario where you need to delete a specific software configuration across your organization. With Zluri + Jamf, you can easily create a delete script, ensuring uniformity and accuracy across all devices. This prevents any potential issues arising from outdated settings.

Seamlessly Integrate Zluri with Jamf Pro in 2 Clicks

Let's explore the streamlined process of integrating Zluri with Jamf Pro to optimize the synergy between these two robust tools.

Step 1: Customize Jamf Integration Scopes to Fit Your Requirements

Tailoring the integration settings in Jamf Pro to align with your organization's mobile device management needs is essential for unlocking Zluri's powerful capabilities. Whether it's data discovery, automated tasks, SAML, or license management, selecting the appropriate scopes ensures that you have access to the right data and features. For a straightforward approach, default settings can assist you in this customization process.

Step 2: Forge a Secure Connection Between Zluri and Jamf

Creating a secure and fortified link between Zluri + Jamf Pro requires the approval of your IT administrator. To expedite this approval, having the necessary access details for Jamf is crucial. Alternatively, you can delegate this responsibility to a trusted colleague who can facilitate the approval on your behalf.

Note: Zluri allows you to save this configured setup for future reference, providing convenience and efficiency. Additionally, if different departments in your organization require distinct connections, Zluri accommodates these needs by generating additional links tailored to specific IT configurations.

By diligently following these steps, you establish a seamless connection between Jamf and Zluri, paving the way for improved collaboration, streamlined processes, heightened data security, and efficient mobile device management.

Don't wait! Schedule a demo today and unleash the potential of this powerful integration between Jamf and Zluri.

About the author

Rohit Rao

Rohit works in the Community and Marketing Team of Zluri and is a strong advocate of community led growth.