IOS en La Empresa

iOS
Reconnect the cord
Hello, Im William Smith and a Solutions Architect for 318, Inc., a technology consultancy based in Santa Monica,
Calif.
Lets talk about what we can do when we forego wireless on our iOS devices and reconnect the cord.
iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015
The nature of this presentation isnt so much as lessons learned from the project Ill be referencingthis isnt a case
studybut rather nifty things I learned while working on this project. Ill also suggest some items for you to add to
your toolkit.
1:1 iPad
Initiative
PreK-12
40,000 students
5,000 faculty
This past year Ive been on hiatus from my normal duties as a consultant to assist with an iPad rollout project for a
large school district. During this past school year, we deployed about 30,000 iPads to students and teachers. By the
time the project is complete at the end of calendar year 2015, the district will have distributed nearly 45,000 iPads.
Deployment
Wi-Fi + DEP + MDM
Symmetric multi-processing = Users
With this number of devices, the school district planned on using Apples Device Enrollment Program (DEP) and what I
like to call the power of symmetric multi-processing to wirelessly enroll and manage its devices with its MDM. In other
words, dozens or hundreds of users can set up their devices more eciently and economically using DEP than
someone doing it for them.
iOS 8
Automatically
downloading
on devices
Not caching
on our servers
We deployed iPads to teachers before school started last September and then iOS 8 dropped two weeks before we
were to deploy our first student iPads. Wed planned for this. However, we noticed two things:
1) The 1.2 GB update was automatically downloading to iPads. That was OK.
2) Our OS X caching servers installed in each school werent caching the update.
This meant many devices were simultaneously downloading the update over the districts Internet connection.
Looking ahead, one schools deployment could bog down the network.
Manual
Upgrade
Apple Configurator
16 Macs
20 devices per
Mac
25,000 devices
7 business days
We had to control the iOS 8 upgrade. The only way to do that was use Apple Configurator, which cached the 1.2 GB
upgrade file to the Mac. The only way to use Apple Configurator was physically connect each device to a workstation
and update each one.
Device by device, box by box and palette by palette (10 devices per box and 27 boxes per palette), we upgraded
about 25,000 devices in 7 business days.
iPad
Finger
iPads power on
automatically
Configurator
doesnt power
them off
Saved 13 days
We hired professionals to upgrade our 25,000 iPads, which was the primary reason this sub-project took as little time
as it did. They had developed a little in-house Mac application that did something simple but extraordinary. It watched
Configurator and as it finished updating a device the app made a few simple quality control checks and then shut
down the iPadpowered it o.
That little step shaved o 15 seconds per iPad due to less handling (they never had to remove the iPad from the
cardboard sleeve) and the time it takes to press and hold the power button and swipe the screen.
Thats more than 13 business days of time.
There was something to be said about what you can do when you bypass Wi-Fi and connect the cord. And some
things you simply cant do over Wi-Fi. More and more as I participated in this project, I learned some really cool things
you can only do when you connect the cord to an iOS device.
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
Well spend a little bit of time talking about the first few items here.
Ill cover a few ways of entering text on your iPad apart from using the on-screen keyboard and how you can use that
to speed up preparing multiple iPads with the same information.
When MDM cant talk to your iPad wirelessly, well see how you can still connect it to your network and how it can
save you a lot of headaches. Then well cover a Yosemite and iOS 8 feature for viewing your iPads screen on your
Mac and how you can use that for a documentation and support.
But Ill spend more of our time talking about troubleshooting information we can get out of a device and ways of
sending commands via command line, which we can use for scripting.
Text Input
Apple ID: stephanie.cunningham@school.k12.ca.us

Password: sY}ezi[pp6gS
If youre preparing a half dozen or more iPads, let alone dozens, hundreds or thousands, just entering Apple ID
information is time-consuming, burdensome and a painful.
How would you like to have to type Apple IDs and passwords like this on the on-screen keyboard?
10
Text Input
Apple ID: stephanie.cunningham@school.k12.ca.us

Password: sY}ezi[pp6gS
If youre a touch typist, a more ecient way to enter data on an iPad is using an external keyboard.
11
Text Input
Logitech Wired Keyboard

$59.99
Something like this Logitech Wired Keyboard that plugs directly into the 30-pin or Lightning port on the iPad work very
well and it requires no additional power, cables or software. Once you plug it in, its immediately ready to type. Cost is
about $60.
12
Text Input
Lightning to USB Camera Adapter

$29.00
If you dont want to buy a dedicated 30-pin or Lightning keyboard then the first item I suggest adding to your toolkit is
this Lightning to USB pigtail or as Apple likes to call it, a Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. It retails for $29.00 in
most stores.
I want you to note that this is a female USB connector not a male connector. This isnt a short version of the Lighting
cable that comes with every iOS device.
13
Text Input
With just this connector, you can use most any wired USB keyboards you may have around the oce such as the Dell
extended keyboards that come with most PCs.
14
Text Input
However, Apple USB keyboards wont work. Why?
Every Apple keyboard is a USB hub and the Lightning port on an iPad doesnt generate enough power to support
both keyboard input and hubs, whether anything is plugged in to them or not.
15
Text Input
So, how do we make Apple keyboards work?
The next item I suggest adding to your toolkit is a small powered USB hub. This Protonix USB 3.0 4-port hub sells on
amazon.com for $10.95. The cost of it plus Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter is about $20 below the cost of
Logitechs small wired keyboard.
When you add the hub, though, you now get the ability to do something really cool.
16
Text Input
You can eliminate the keyboard and replace it with a barcode scanner. This Esky brand scanner on amazon.com sells
for about $19.99 and you can spend up to a few hundred dollars per scanner depending on any additional features
you want.
17
Text Input
Code 128B Barcode font
Uppercase letters
Lowercase letters
Numbers
Symbols
If you choose to use a barcode scanner then you also need to purchase a high quality barcode font, specifically supporting something like Code
128B barcodes. Code 128B supports:
Uppercase letters
Lowercase letters
Numbers
Symbols
Scanning a barcode means youll have not only faster data entry but accurate data entry the first time. If you had 50 iPads to prepare and had to
enter five pieces of information on each such as username, password and Apple ID, think about what youll gain by pressing a button 250 times
compared to typing unique usernames, passwords and Apple IDs 50 times.
Experiment where you can add a tab or return character at the end of the barcode to either move to the next field or tap the default button,
which is usually OK or Agree. Depending on the quality of the scanner you purchase and monitor, you may be able to scan barcodes directly
o your computer screen or you may find merging data into a Word document for printing individual cards for each iPad easier.
18
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
That takes care of getting text into your iOS device. Next, lets talk about networking.
19
Networking
Heres the scenario: A user forgets his iPad passcode. After a few failed attempts, he disables his iPad for five
minutes. The user restarts his iPad thinking thatll reset the Disabled message. It doesnt. After disabling his iPad
again for 15 minutes, he comes to you to clear his passcode from your MDM server.
The problem this causes is it turns o Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi credentials are securely stored in the iPads keychain, which
can only be unlocked by entering the passcode. Catch 22. How do get into the iPad?
The ocial solution is you dontwipe the device.
The ocial unocial solution is to connect the iPad to a wired network and bypass Wi-Fi. I say unocial because
Apple doesnt oer this solution as a support method but its been in iOS at least since version 6. And it continues to
work up to the latest versions of iOS that Ive personally tested.
20-1
Networking
Heres the scenario: A user forgets his iPad passcode. After a few failed attempts, he disables his iPad for five
minutes. The user restarts his iPad thinking thatll reset the Disabled message. It doesnt. After disabling his iPad
again for 15 minutes, he comes to you to clear his passcode from your MDM server.
The problem this causes is it turns o Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi credentials are securely stored in the iPads keychain, which
can only be unlocked by entering the passcode. Catch 22. How do get into the iPad?
The ocial solution is you dontwipe the device.
The ocial unocial solution is to connect the iPad to a wired network and bypass Wi-Fi. I say unocial because
Apple doesnt oer this solution as a support method but its been in iOS at least since version 6. And it continues to
work up to the latest versions of iOS that Ive personally tested.
20-2
Networking
Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:
Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter
Powered USB hub
Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit:
An Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for $29.00

Ethernet cable
How does this all fit together?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
First, plug the Camera adapter into the iPad.

Plug the USB hub into the Camera adapter.
Be sure to plug the USB hub into power.
Connect the USB Ethernet cable into the hub.
Connect the Ethernet cable to the USB Ethernet adapter.
Finally plug the Ethernet cable into the wall.
Simple!
21-1
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-2
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-3
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-4
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-5
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-6
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-7
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-8
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-9
Networking
Powered USB hub

Ethernet cable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Simple!
21-10
Networking
iPad to
USB Camera
Adapter to
USB hub to
USB Ethernet
Adapter to
Ethernet cable to
Ethernet port
It sounds pretty convoluted and it is!
What does this do!? Remember, the Lightning port on the iPad cant power much more than a simple keyboard. So,
we put a powered USB hub in mix and then connect this to a USB to Ethernet adapter, which connects things to
Ethernet networks. The USB hub is not only supplying power to this chain of adapters but also passing network trac
from the network port in your wall to the iPad.
22
Networking
10.1.28.100
Clear passcode
Clear restrictions
Wipe
Profit!
The end result is weve now put our iPad back on the network. It automatically obtains an IP address and we can
send it remote commands such as Clear Passcode, Clear a Restrictions passcode and Wipe Device from our
MDM server (Casper, Profile Manager or Meraki).
I keep this entire rig in a pouch in my bag and take it everywhere with me. If you want to what it looks like in person
come see me after our session.
23
Networking
Multiple iOS
Device Setup
Ethernet switch
Caching server
iLife and iWork
This Ethernet rig isnt useful for just sending commands. You can use multiple rigs connected to a Gigabit switch,
which is connected to an OS X caching server, to enable simultaneous and dedicated high-speed app downloads
when preparing devices for your users. Youll notice the speed dierence when installing large apps such as Apples
iLife and iWork applications, which are hundreds of megabytes each.
On top of all this, you can connect your keyboard and barcode scanner to your USB hub at the same time! And
everything works.
24
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
As I mentioned earlier, wired networking via the Lightning port has been available since roughly iOS 6. Whats new in
iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) is the ability to view and record what happens on your iOS device.
25
Screen Recording
Displaying an iOS screen on an Mac is a new feature Apple enabled for app developers so they could better demonstrate their apps. But nothing
stops us from using that feature too.
Why would admins want to display an iPad screen on their Macs? Two words: Documentation and Support. And for folks like me,
presentations.
Displaying or recording your iPad on your Mac requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS 8 devices with Lightning ports. This wont work with 30pin iOS devices. To record something from your iPad youll use the QuickTime Player application found in the Applications folder.
Once you see your iPad on your screen, you can click the red Record button to start and stop recording and you can even choose whether to
record audio from your computer for voiceover narration or from your iOS device. Even if youre not creating video documentation, you can still
record your step-by-step instructions and then scrub through your recording and copy screen shots out of the video for print documentation.
26-1
Screen Recording
Displaying an iOS screen on an Mac is a new feature Apple enabled for app developers so they could better demonstrate their apps. But nothing
stops us from using that feature too.
Why would admins want to display an iPad screen on their Macs? Two words: Documentation and Support. And for folks like me,
presentations.
Displaying or recording your iPad on your Mac requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS 8 devices with Lightning ports. This wont work with 30pin iOS devices. To record something from your iPad youll use the QuickTime Player application found in the Applications folder.
Once you see your iPad on your screen, you can click the red Record button to start and stop recording and you can even choose whether to
record audio from your computer for voiceover narration or from your iOS device. Even if youre not creating video documentation, you can still
record your step-by-step instructions and then scrub through your recording and copy screen shots out of the video for print documentation.
26-2
Screen Recording
Demo
Lets see how this works. Its simple to do:
Using your Lightning cable, connect your iPad to your Mac running OS X Yosemite.
Launch QuickTime Player found in the Applications folder.
Choose File > New Movie Recording.
From the Recording dialog, choose Camera from the dropdown menu and choose your iOS device.
If youve ever had to remotely support an IOS device, walk your customer through these steps to display it on screen
and then use Apple Remote Desktop, VNC or any other screen sharing software to watch whats happening. This isnt
interactiveyou cant click buttons on your Mac to control the iPad but you can guide someone in real time and
provide support without having to physically view the device.
27
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
Now, lets turn to some under-the-hood stu.
28
Console and logs
OS X and iOS are both UNIX-based and share very similar Darwin kernels. While OS X allows us to peer into the
workings of its system, iOS is pretty much a closed interface.
We can view OS X logs and real-time data using the Console application, Terminal, Activity Monitor and other utilities.
The same activity we see there is also occurring on iOS devices. We just need to access it. How do we do that?
29
Console and logs
You may have downloaded and installed Xcode from the Mac App Store. If so, you already have what you need.
First, youll launch Xcode from the Applications folder and choose Devices from the Window menu. Next, plug in your
iOS device and tap the Trust button when prompted to trust your computer. If you choose not to trust now, your iPad
will prompt you again the next time you connect until you click Trust.
30
Console and logs
Xcode shows you basic information about your iPad such as name, model and iOS version.
If you click the Take Screenshot button, itll place a screenshot of your devices screen on your Desktop. That could be
handy when your screen is damaged and you need to see whats happening.
31
Console and logs
If you click the View Device Logs button youll find something similar to what youd see in the Console application on
your Mac. On your iOS device these are mainly app crash logs. Theyre not very helpful unless you know what youre
looking for.
32-1
Console and logs
looking for.
32-2
Console and logs
looking for.
32-3
Console and logs
Whats useful is the console output at the bottom of the window. This is tailing the active output of your iPad in real
time.
It was very helpful when I was a troubleshooting Casper Focus issue within the school district earlier this year. Are
folks familiar with Casper Focus? Thats JAMF Softwares tool for teachers to lock student iPads into an app or a
website.
We had teachers reporting theyd remove focus from their students devices but a few often remained focus, which
meant students werent able to use their iPads until we fixed them. Our initial thought was the wireless network was
unreliable. After all, some devices worked but others didnt. When I got my hands on one of these stuck devices and
plugged it in to view the console, I was very surprised by what saw. The iPad was receiving the APNs command
perfectly every time. It just wasnt responding.
33
Console and logs
After reviewing the console information a little more I noticed the last line of the MDM output was Server has no
commands for this device.
I still didnt know what was happening but the evidence I collected helped me determine our Wi-Fi network was just
fine and that I needed to be concentrating on our MDM server. This was something I could take to JAMF and ask
them to help us troubleshoot further.
Eventually, JAMF implemented a new feature and fixed a bug to help us with this problem. They implemented a
feature to send a remove focus command every time we clicked the Update Inventory button in our JSS and they
fixed a bug so configuration profiles would properly timeout and expire, so that focus got removed anyway when we
reached the end of our class times.
34
Console and logs
Xcode has a couple of drawbacks.
First, its huge6 GB in size. It takes a long time to download and has a hefty footprint if all you need to do is look at
your iPads console output. The other drawback is that it has no filtering capabilities like OS Xs Console application.
You cant just search for mdmd, which is the process I wanted to see when troubleshooting Casper Focus.
For routinely viewing iOS console information I recommend another item for your toolkit called iOS Console from
LemonJar.com. Its very lightweightonly 7 MBand looks very much like OS Xs Console application. It even
includes textual filtering to let you separate the useful data from the noise.
35-1
Console and logs
Xcode has a couple of drawbacks.
First, its huge6 GB in size. It takes a long time to download and has a hefty footprint if all you need to do is look at
your iPads console output. The other drawback is that it has no filtering capabilities like OS Xs Console application.
You cant just search for mdmd, which is the process I wanted to see when troubleshooting Casper Focus.
For routinely viewing iOS console information I recommend another item for your toolkit called iOS Console from
LemonJar.com. Its very lightweightonly 7 MBand looks very much like OS Xs Console application. It even
includes textual filtering to let you separate the useful data from the noise.
35-2
Console and logs
iOS Console
Download and use for free
$14.00 to support the developer
iOS Console is a beta product and you can currently download it and use it for free on OS X 10.9.2 or higher.
You have the option to support the developer by paying $14.00 but that may become a requirement once its out of
beta. Also, LemonJar does oer volume pricing for iOS Console.
36
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
Finally, lets look at some command line tools that not only give us more information about our devices but also let us
automate and control our devices. Keep in mind anything we can do in the command line is scriptable.
37
Command line tools

libimobiledevice
A cross-platform software protocol library and tools
to communicate with iOS devices
(including Apple TV) natively
http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
Lets talk about an open source project called libimobiledevice. The development community started this project in
2007 (the same year the first iPhone was released) and released version 1.0 in 2010 (the same year the first iPad was
released).
The intention was to develop tools for use on Linux to communicate with iOS devices. As of today, version 1.2
supports not only OS X and Linux but also Windows.
38
Command line tools
Libimobiledevice doesnt use proprietary libraries and calls that Apple deems o-limits and it doesnt require you to
jailbreak your iPhones and iPads. Everything it does, it does so natively with both 30-pin and Lightning devices.
And as of early June, the website reports Yes, libimobiledevice works with iOS 9. (mostly)
39-1
Command line tools
10.06.2015: Yep, libimobiledevice works with iOS 9.
Libimobiledevice doesnt use proprietary libraries and calls that Apple deems o-limits and it doesnt require you to
jailbreak your iPhones and iPads. Everything it does, it does so natively with both 30-pin and Lightning devices.
And as of early June, the website reports Yes, libimobiledevice works with iOS 9. (mostly)
39-2
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/
idevice_id

idevicebackup

idevicebackup2

idevicecrashreport

idevicedate

idevicedebug

idevicedebugserverproxy
idevicediagnostics

ideviceenterrecovery

ideviceimagemounter
ideviceinfo
ideviceinstaller
idevicename
idevicenotificationproxy
idevicepair
ideviceprovision
idevicescreenshot
idevicesyslog
What does libimobiledevice do?
The installer places this list of binaries in your /usr/local/bin directory. The names are fairly self-explanatory but if
youre not sure what something does you can type the command and append --help to to the end.
40
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/ideviceinfo --help
Usage: ideviceinfo [OPTIONS]
Show information about a connected device.
-d, --debug
-s, --simple
-u, --udid UDID
-q, --domain NAME
-k, --key NAME
-x, --xml
-h, --help
enable communication debugging

use a simple connection to avoid auto-pairing with the device
target specific device by its 40-digit device UDID
set domain of query to NAME. Default: None
only query key specified by NAME. Default: All keys.
output information as xml plist instead of key/value pairs
prints usage information
Known domains are:

com.apple.disk_usage
com.apple.disk_usage.factory
com.apple.mobile.battery
...
In this example, Im running --help against the ideviceinfo command line binary.
One of the things I see I can do is use the -q or --domain switch to query a domain such as
com.apple.mobile.battery.
41
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/ideviceinfo --domain com.apple.mobile.battery
BatteryCurrentCapacity: 100
BatteryIsCharging: false
ExternalChargeCapable: true
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: false
GasGaugeCapability: true
This returns information about the status of my devices battery. In this example we get a list of six properties or keys
and their values.
If all I wanted to retrieve were just the value for FullyCharged, Id append to my command --key and the name of
the key FullyCharged and the value returned is false. In other words, my device is reporting its battery is less than
100%.
42-1
Command line tools

BatteryCurrentCapacity: 100
BatteryIsCharging: false
ExternalChargeCapable: true
ExternalConnected: true
FullyCharged: false
GasGaugeCapability: true
--key FullyCharged
false
This returns information about the status of my devices battery. In this example we get a list of six properties or keys
and their values.
If all I wanted to retrieve were just the value for FullyCharged, Id append to my command --key and the name of
the key FullyCharged and the value returned is false. In other words, my device is reporting its battery is less than
100%.
42-2
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/ideviceinfo
...
RegionInfo: LL/A
SDIOManufacturerTuple:
IOSDIOManufacturerID: 720
IOSDIOProductID: 17193
SDIOProductInfo: P=K94 m=1.0 V=a
SIMStatus: kCTSIMSupportSIMStatusReady
SerialNumber: DLXFD0JHDFHY
SoftwareBehavior: EQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
TimeZone: America/Chicago
...
Optionally, I could just run the ideviceinfo command without any switches to get all the information about the device
itself. Again, this is returning a list of keys and their values.
43
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/ideviceinfo --key SerialNumber
DLXFD0JHDFHY
If I wanted just the serial number of the device, Id add --key and the key name SerialNumber.
44
Install Xcode command line developer tools
That should give you a taste of what the libimobiledevice tools can do. Where do you get them?
These are open source tools stored across Github repositories and you to compile them after downloading before you
can install them. If youre like me youre not a developer and this can get a little hairy. Heres a list of things to do.
First, you need to install the Xcode command line developer tools. These are a subset of that 6 GB Xcode application
you can download from the Mac App Store. The easiest way to get these is to use the command line: xcode-select -install. This goes out to Apple via Software Update and downloads and installs the tools. <run>
45-1
45-2
45-3
Install full Xcode if installing iFuse
If you want to take advantage of iFuse, which is a sub-project of libimobiledevice for browsing your iPads folders and
files, youll need to download the full Xcode software from the Mac App Store and run the application once to accept
the license agreement and install the same command line tools.
If youre not going to use iFuse, you only need to install just the Xcode command line tools.
46
Install Homebrew
The easiest way to install libimobiledevice is to use a command line package manager called Homebrew. Homebrew
will take care of downloading all the dependencies and creating the installers for us.
First, we need to install Homebrew.
Next, we run brew doctor, which is Homebrew's self-diagnosis and cleanup tool.
Finally, we copy the suggested command at the end and paste it back into the Terminal to run it. This adds the "/usr/
local/bin" path to our user profile so we can choose to simply type "brew" going forward. <run>
47-1
Install Homebrew
47-2
Install Homebrew
47-3
Download and install libimobiledevice dependencies
Next, we need to install some dependencies. These are libraries and files that aren't part of libimobiledevice but
libimobiledevice needs them.
While this is installing, you'll notice a neat new little feature in Yosemiteit supports emoji! Look for the cute little beer
mug!
48-1
mug!
48-2
mug!
48-3
Command line tools

Install Xcode command line tools from Apple:
xcode-select --install (or install Xcode)
Download and install Homebrew:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/
Homebrew/install/master/install)"
/usr/bin/brew doctor
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >>
~/.bash_profile
I'm not going to bore you with showing the entire install process, but it's pretty straightforward.
These are the commands to install the Xcode command line tools and Homebrew.
49
Command line tools

Use Homebrew to install libimobiledevice:
/usr/local/bin/brew install -v --fresh automake autoconf
libtool wget libimobiledevice
/usr/local/bin/brew install -v --HEAD --fresh --build-from-
source ideviceinstaller
Scripted install:
https://github.com/dayt0n/libimobiledevice-Installer/
sh ./libimobiledeviceInstall
And these are the commands to install libimobiledevice using Homebrew.
After spending hours researching and testing the correct sequence of commands to install all of this, a co-worker
pointed me to the last item. You'll still need to install Xcode but this script runs everything else.
50
Command line tools

Install iFuse for browsing iOS files and folders:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxfuse/
brew install -v --HEAD --fresh --build-from-source ifuse
Install Java if prompted:
https://www.java.com/en/download/mac_download.jsp
One more tool that's part of libimobiledevice but doesn't download and install with the rest of the utilities is iFuse. It
lets you browse files and folders on your iOS devices.
After you've installed everything else, download the .dmg file and install Fuse for OS X and then use Homebrew to
install iFuse. You may be prompted to install Java. Do that too.
51
Command line tools

/usr/local/bin/
idevice_id

idevicebackup

idevicebackup2

idevicecrashreport

idevicedate

idevicedebug

idevicedebugserverproxy
idevicediagnostics

ideviceenterrecovery

ifuse
ideviceimagemounter
ideviceinfo
ideviceinstaller
idevicename
idevicenotificationproxy
idevicepair
ideviceprovision
idevicescreenshot
idevicesyslog
This adds the ifuse command line tool to /usr/local/bin.
52
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ mkdir ~/ipad
Using iFuse is similar to accessing a disk via command line.
First, create a directory with any name you like. Here, I'll make a folder called 'ipad'.
Next, Connect your iPad to your computer via its cable (this works for both 30-pin and Lightning devices).
Run 'ifuse' followed by the name of your directory. iFuse locates any iOS device connected to your computer and
mounts it to your folder.
Just like any connected disk, you can use 'ls' to list contents of your iPad.
53-1
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ mkdir ~/ipad
$ /usr/local/bin/ifuse ~/ipad
53-2
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ mkdir ~/ipad
$ /usr/local/bin/ifuse ~/ipad
$ ls ~/ipad
Books Downloads
DCIM PhotoData
Photos Radio iTunes_Control

Purchases
Recordings
53-3
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ cd ~/ipad/DCIM/100APPLE/
$ ls
IMG_0001.PNG
IMG_0002.PNG
IMG_0003.PNG
You can also use 'cd' to change directories and 'cp' to copy files from your iPad to your computer.
This doesn't give you access to the root volume of your iPad. For that you would need to jailbreak your device
because Apple's security model limits your access to the system. But you do get access to the data area of the iPad.
When you're done browsing files and folders, use the umount command to unmount the 'ipad' volume and use the
rmdir command to delete the empty folder.
54-1
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ ls
IMG_0001.PNG
IMG_0002.PNG
IMG_0003.PNG
$ cp *.PNG ~/Desktop
54-2
Command line tools

Using iFuse:
$ ls
IMG_0001.PNG
IMG_0002.PNG
IMG_0003.PNG
$ cp *.PNG ~/Desktop
$ umount ~/ipad
$ rmdir ~/ipad
54-3
Command line tools

Shell script:
#!/bin/sh
TYPE=$( ideviceinfo -k ProductType )
OSVERSION=$( ideviceinfo -k ProductVersion )
SERIALNUMBER=$( ideviceinfo -k SerialNumber )
if [[ -f ~/Desktop/inventory.txt ]] ; then

echo "$TYPE\t$OSVERSION\t$SERIALNUMBER" >> ~/Desktop/inventory.txt
else

echo "Type\tiOS Version\tSerial Number" > ~/Desktop/inventory.txt

echo "$TYPE\t$OSVERSION\t$SERIALNUMBER" >> ~/Desktop/inventory.txt
fi
exit 0
Let's look at some scripting examples. Keep in mind that my life for the past year has been working in K-12 education, so Im using examples
from that realm.
Scenario: You inherit a cart of iPads from a classroom and you need to get a quick inventory. The teacher has been kind enough to reset all of
them before sending them to you and they're waiting for you to run through the setup assistant.
You could tap the glass and run the setup assistant on each iPad and then choose Settings > General > About to get most of this information. Or
you could use the ideviceinfo tool in a script to read the information and send it to a tab-delimited file. In this case, the teacher did you a favor
by resetting the devices because they won't prompt you to trust your computer. The trust is stored in the network settings of each device but
those network settings don't yet exist.
All you need to do is plug in a device, run the script and unplug the device. It'll take you longer to plug and unplug each device than it will to
actually run the script. You can have a spreadsheet of your 25 iPads in about two minutes.
55
Command line tools

AppleScript:
set userApps to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller -l | awk '{ print $1 }'"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
set appsList to words 2 through end of userApps
repeat with anApp in appsList
set removeCommand to "/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller --uninstall " & anApp as string
do shell script removeCommand
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
Here's an AppleScript and AppleScripts can be saved as double-clickable applications.
Scenario: You inherit a cart of iPads from a classroom and you need to quickly turn it around for an iPad training
session in one hour. At least you were actually given advance notice this time, right? The iPads aren't wiped but
they have an assortment of apps installed. You want to remove all apps except those that come with the iPad (in other
words, remove all user-installed apps).
This script uses the "do shell script" command in AppleScript to run "ideviceinstaller", which can list apps, install apps
upgrade apps and remove apps. We use it to first list all user-installed apps and create a list. Then we recurse through
the list and remove each app. Just a few seconds per device.
56
Command line tools

Shell script:
#!/bin/sh
# create backup
SERIALNUMBER=$( /usr/local/bin/ideviceinfo -k SerialNumber )
/bin/mkdir -p ~/Desktop/Backups/$SERIALNUMBER
/usr/local/bin/idevicebackup2 --full backup ~/Desktop/Backups/$SERIALNUMBER
/usr/local/bin/idevicebackup2 unback ~/Desktop/Backups/$SERIALNUMBER
# delete photos
/bin/mkdir /private/tmp/iosdevice
/usr/local/bin/ifuse /private/tmp/iosdevice ; sleep 2
/bin/rm -R /private/tmp/iosdevice/DCIM/*
/bin/rm -R /private/tmp/iosdevice/PhotoData/*
/sbin/umount /private/tmp/iosdevice
/bin/rmdir /private/tmp/iosdevice
# shut down the device
/usr/local/bin/idevicediagnostics shutdown
Finally, this shell script takes advantage of a few of the tools.
Scenario: A class has just finished with a set of iPads it was using to take pictures. You want to backup the iPad's
data (just in case), delete all the pictures and then shut down the devices until they're needed for next time.
The idevicebackup2 tool creates a backup to a location you specify on your computer and it then restores the files to
make the files readable. We use iFuse to remove the photo data. And then use the idevicediagnostics tool to shut
down the iPad.
57
Screen Recording
Demo
Let's see the script in action.
I'll use my iPad to take three pictures of the room.
For the sake of convenience, I'll use BBEdit's feature to run this script. Since I don't have much on this iPad, it takes
less than a minute to complete.
First, note that my iPad shut down. If we browse the unpacked backups files, we should find our photos in the DCIM
folder.
58
Text Input
Networking
Screen Recording
Console and logs
Command line tools
Today, we discussed a couple of methods for entering text such as simple keyboards and barcode scanners with
barcode fonts. The more complex setups used powered USB hubs, which allowed us to also network our iOS
devices.
New in Yosemite and iOS 8 is the ability to display an iPad's screen on our Mac, make videos and capture screen
shots. Don't forget this method is also useful for remote support when you can't directly view an iPad.
We looked at how to get diagnostic and forensic information from an iPad using Xcode or iOS Console. And finally, we
touched on the libimobiledevice toolset for reading information, sending commands and demonstrated how those
tools could fit into larger scripted projects.
59
Q&A
60
William Smith
318, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
bill@talkingmoose.net
http://talkingmoose.net
@meck
iOS - Reconnect the Cord
Feedback: http://j.mp/psumac2015-89
61

IOS en La Empresa

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

IOS en La Empresa

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

iOS

Reconnect the cord

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Thats more than 13 business days of time.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Apple ID: stephanie.cunningham@school.k12.ca.us

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Apple ID: stephanie.cunningham@school.k12.ca.us

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Logitech Wired Keyboard

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lightning to USB Camera Adapter

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

However, Apple USB keyboards wont work. Why?

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

So, how do we make Apple keyboards work?

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

The ocial solution is you dontwipe the device.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

The ocial solution is you dontwipe the device.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:

Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter

Powered USB hub

Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit:

An Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for $29.00

First, plug the Camera adapter into the iPad.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:

Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter

Powered USB hub

Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit:

An Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for $29.00

First, plug the Camera adapter into the iPad.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:

Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter

Powered USB hub

Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit:

An Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for $29.00

First, plug the Camera adapter into the iPad.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:

Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter

Powered USB hub

Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit:

An Apple USB Ethernet Adapter for $29.00

First, plug the Camera adapter into the iPad.

iOS - Reconnect the Cord.key - July 11, 2015

Lets go back to a couple of tools weve added to our toolkit:

Apples Lightning to USB Camera adapter

Powered USB hub

Lets add a couple more items to our toolkit: