Yosemite Profile Manager & Proxy Settings

[AngryITGuy]

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on an issue we are having since upgrading to Yosemite.

 

We have a Yosemite server and a suite of iMacs all running Yosemite.

 

All the iMacs are bound to AD and OD and profile manager is configured on the server.

 

I've have device, user and group based configuration profiles all working nicely on the iMacs yet I cannot figure out a way to deploy proxy settings. The proxy setting is available under the WiFi option in profile manager but not when using the Ethernet interface.

 

I've read online that you can configure the proxy connection on a iMac as the local administration and then copy /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist to the rest of the suite.

 

When I've looked at the preferences.plist file the Ethernet interface is referenced via a GUID and I'm assuming each iMac will have a unique GUID so I can't see how copying that file to the computers will actually work.

 

So before I give that a go an a handful of iMacs as a test I thought I'd check on here to see if anyone has any additional advice.

[alfatec]

Hi, we have pretty much the same setup as yourself and tried to implement the Proxy settings through System Manager. The problem we had though was sometimes the network settings were not getting applied before the user logged in

therefore there was no network connectivity. In the end we just manually set the network and proxy settings on each workstation. Only needs setting once. We also utilise Kerberos on the macs which makes things a lot quicker.

[karlr]

You can configure proxy settings from the command line using the "networksetup" util. E.g. networksetup --setwebproxy Ethernet smoothwall 8080. You could do this from a script as part of your deployment if you use Munki/DeployStudio or similar. For convenience we only set the "setautoproxyurl" setting, which allows us to simply pull a proxy.pac from our smoothwall rather than deploying each individual proxy setting.

 

Still a bit daft that this can't be done from Profile Manager tho

[AngryITGuy]

Thanks for the update guys.

 

It is a major PITA with Profile Manager, not being able to deploy proxy settings for the Ethernet interface.

 

I've decided to enable the auto proxy discovery and advertise the proxy settings via DHCP which now seems to be working.

[2097]

Thanks for the update guys.

 

It is a major PITA with Profile Manager, not being able to deploy proxy settings for the Ethernet interface.

 

I've decided to enable the auto proxy discovery and advertise the proxy settings via DHCP which now seems to be working.

 

Unsure if you have noticed but Oct 27th's Update has released proxy settings.

 

Im now waiting on the ability to set the time and turn on auto update for app store !

[slancaster]

server 5 allows proxy settings to be set differently now, not restricting to just wifi interface. Server 4 was a nightmare to set.