shard.sh

shard.sh

#!/bin/bash

###
#
#            Name:  shard.sh
#     Description:  This Casper extension attribute takes a Mac serial
#                   number as input and uses that serial number to output a
#                   number from 0 to 9. This can be useful in scoping Casper
#                   policies to a specific percentage of the fleet.
#          Author:  Elliot Jordan <[email protected]>
#         Created:  2015-05-15
#   Last Modified:  2019-03-18
#         Version:  1.0.1
#
###

SERIAL=$(ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice -d 2 | awk '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ {print $3}' | sed s/\"//g)
HEX=$(echo "$SERIAL" | md5 | colrm 1 28) # last four hex digits of the serial's md5
DEC=$(( 16#$HEX )) # number between 0 and 65535
SHARD=$(( DEC % 10 )) # number between 0 and 9

echo "<result>$SHARD</result>"

exit 0

Is there a python version of this?

Not one that I use, but Mr. Gilbert has something similar in Python here: https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2015/11/23/releasing-changes-with-sharding/

Much appreciated!