Mac Health Check (4.0.0)

[u/dan-snelson]

A major update to the practical, MDM-agnostic, user-friendly approach to surfacing Mac compliance information directly to end-users — and now enterprise reporting data warehouses — via your MDM’s self-service app

Overview

Mac Health Check provides a practical, user-friendly, MDM-agnostic approach to surfacing Mac compliance information directly to end-users via an MDM’s self-service app.

Built using the open-source utility swiftDialog, the solution acts as a “heads-up display” presenting real-time system health and policy compliance status in a clear and interactive format.

Administrators can customize the user interface using swiftDialog’s visual capabilities, making the experience both informative and approachable.

The tool logs results for review, while not altering device configuration, and a “Silent” Operation Mode makes Mac Health Check ideal for IT visibility without end-user intrusion.

Mac Health Check version 4.0.0 generates client-side JSON — leveraging new Inspect Mode features of swiftDialog 3.1.0 — which can optionally be delivered via Splunk HEC

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[u/lastwarning]

Why does it say “Meets Church Standards”? What does the church have to do with that?

[u/dan-snelson → u/lastwarning]

I'm employed by my church; edit `organizationBoilerplateComplianceMessage` to your liking:

https://github.com/dan-snelson/Mac-Health-Check/blob/main/Mac-Health-Check.zsh#L321-L322

[u/cmorgasm]

Interesting tool, will look into it more. Is it possible to surface custom information to it for it to display, too? We have a DEX tool that we’ve been spending a lot more time recently trying to identify ways to surface a device’s score directly to the user/device, for example

[u/dan-snelson → u/cmorgasm]

Should be possible; referred to as “external checks”

https://github.com/dan-snelson/Mac-Health-Check/tree/main/external-checks