In today's world where social media has become part of our lives like never before, things have started to make more sense when they are personalized with emojis & GIFs. Cyberpsychologist (oh, it's funny if you've never heard of them?) argue that just by sending emojis we can change someone's state of mind. We can discuss more how your girlfriend or boyfriend didn't let you sleep all night with that one emoji she sent you. How about adding much-loved emojis & talking personally to the logged-in user? The human tendency is to act better in when things are familiar to them. But, this post isn't about Cyberpsychology, so we'll go back to Mac.
So, when we know this personalization & emoji works so well, why the notifications that are sent to the users so damn boring? Well, maybe no one thought about it, or maybe we don't care enough.
Well, for the ones who want to break the taboo, here is a quick HealthCheck framework that will talk to the user in a personalized way. The following notification will be sent as first thing to introduce the Mac to the logged-in user. Imaging the bond they would develop when the new employees are welcomed with this cute emoji. Well, you can do a lot more, grep the user's profile image from O365 or Active Directory & set it as user image in System Preferences, but let's keep it simple as of now.
In version 1.0 there are 3 important notifications to handle simple but very important alerts which can be fixed only by letting users know about them & there is no way to force it centrally.
- Inform the user to reboot the Mac if it's on for more than 3 days.
- Inform the user to free disk space if the Mac has less than 15GB of space.
- Inform the user if Battery needs replacement
Here is how it works:Screenshots:
The solution is very modular. It has an engine that is triggered once a week using a LaunchAgent. Then, this engine executes all the scripts kept in a folder. You can add or remove as many scripts you want, without making any change in the solution.
Well, there is a better way to do this by creating an app but I wanted to keep it simple so that it can be implemented by anyone with no knowledge of scripting whatsoever. Download scripts that work, test it and then add it in SCRIPTS folder.
Change the text as you wish. I'd suggest a better title that suits your organization.
May be adding a number if you have a Helpdesk or IT Support.
Next version we'd add a script to check & fix the proxy, time server & AD bind.
Download it from Github. Read the quick instruction in the Readme file.
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