CASE Implementation: macOS System Profiler

Disclaimer

Participation by NIST in the creation of the documentation of mentioned software is not intended to imply a recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor is it intended to imply that any specific software is necessarily the best available for the purpose.

Usage

To install this software, clone this repository, and run pip install . from within this directory. (You might want to do this in a virtual environment.)

This provides a standalone command:

case_macos_system_profiler output.json

If provided no arguments, the default behavior is to invoke system_profiler and render its observations about the current operating system environment.

For testing purposes, runtime modes are available to review specific data types from recorded system_profiler output. E.g. this pipeline, exercised under tests/cli, reviews the SPHardwareDataType output:

system_profiler \
  -detailLevel full \
  -json \
  SPHardwareDataType \
  > tmp.json
case_macos_system_profiler \
  --SPHardwareDataType-json tmp.json \
  output.json

Tests are run on sanitized sample JSON files.

Versioning

This project follows SEMVER 2.0.0 where versions are declared.

Make targets

Some make targets are defined for this repository:

• all - Installs pre-commit for this cloned repository instance.
• check - Run unit tests. NOTE: The tests entail an installation of this project's source tree, including prerequisites downloaded from PyPI.
• clean - Remove test build files.

Licensing

This repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE.

Portions of this repository contributed by NIST are governed by the NIST Software Licensing Statement.