Lists latest version of Munki items available in manifests
Honestly, I created this just for fun. I don't need this, but I've seen people sometimes asking about how to list out software to advertise (in a PDF, on a website, etc.) is available in the Munki repo, so maybe someone will find this useful.
You can just run the script as is, and it will try to pull the repo_url information based on what's in your com.googlecode.munki.munkiimport preferences. Right now, it's not actually trying to mount any network shares the way munkiimport does, but there's an option to specify a different folder, in case you want to mount the share yourself.
The script will then generate on your desktop a comma-separated values file called munki_items_available.csv, though you have the option to specify a different filename.
First, it combs through the manifests to find optional installs items, and then it tries to find the latest versions available of each of those items.
By default, only optional installs are considered. If you want to also include managed installs, add the --managedinstalls flag.
Example: ./list_munki_items.py --managedinstalls
If you want to look at featured items instead of all optional installs, add the --featuredoptionals flag. The script does not check to see if featured items are also in the optional installs, but if you have featured items that are not optional installs, Munki itself (when run on the client machine) will give a warning that an item is in featured install but not optional installs.
Example: ./list_munki_items.py --featuredoptionals
If you want to list the highest version available, and you don't want to tell your users version X+1 is available when that's still in testing, and version X is what's really in production, you can use the --onlycatalog flag.
Example: ./list_munki_items.py --onlycatalog production
That would select only items that have the production catalog enabled.
This script isn't super sophisticated, so it isn't going to try to mount a network share if that's what your repo_url is in your munkiimport settings. If you have a repo_url like file:///Users/Shared/munki_repo, that's fine, and this script should work fine with that. If, however, you have a repo_url like smb://yourwebserver.com/munki_repo, you may have to manually mount the share, and then run the script like this:
./list_munki_items.py --repofolder /Volumes/munki_repo
By default, the script will output to your desktop a .csv called munki_items_available.csv, but if you prefer a different filename, you can add a flag to specify your own preferred filename:
./list_munki_items.py --csvname awesomemunkiitems.csv
You can combine flags. For example, if you wanted to get optional installs and managed installs that are in only the testing catalog, you'd run
./list_munki_items.py --managedinstalls --onlycatalog testing
Or if you wanted to get only featured optional installs (not all optional installs) and also all the managed installs, you'd run
./list_munki_items.py --managedinstalls --featuredoptionals