Mac-MSP Gruntwork Maintenance Activity Plugin

This would prevent any Gruntwork operations.  A reinstall of the software is recommended, but you could also try:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mac-msp.gruntwork.chief.plist

Gruntwork is effectively not doing anything.  This could be a technical problem, an active mobile user who never logs out, or the system has been stopped.

If Watchman Monitoring finds a bad disk, Gruntwork will put a notice up asking the user to logout and let us run disk routines.  Think of it like a “check engine” light.  If they ignore it, Gruntwork will throw an alert. Running loginwindow routines should clear the alert.

This is rare but its a safety net for security purposes.  If someone is tampering with the Gruntwork script they may trigger this alert.

The Gruntwork server expects certain content in its uploads.  If it’s not there, something is wrong with the install.  Common causes could be really old versions of Gruntwork not getting updated, or tampering with the scripts.  Please reinstall.

Probably just a fresh install and will clear up quickly but could indicate a major problem over time.

A fresh install  will clear this issue but could indicate a major problem over time.

The computer is never idle long enough to run.  Loginwindow routine will detect that background routines have not be running and perform permission repair and quick clam scan.  Will mean that we won’t see a good memtest or full clam scan so if those are important to you you may need to schedule a manual run.

Users may be seeing a lot of notices asking them to logout. They may simply be ignoring the dialog.  This may be a user who should be scheduled for a manual run and you can shut off reminders entirely.

Gruntwork will not run over the loginwindow if other users are still logged in.  Your users may need help getting the other accounts logged off.

Gruntwork provides a cancel button to the user to allow them to quit Gruntwork over the loginwindow and get logged back in.  But if they do it a lot, you may want to override our timing and figure out when would be a good time for your users.

If a user is idle 6 or more hours and doesn’t have a screen saver lock, we will attempt to log them out so we can run.  But if they have unsaved work, this will fail.  It would be much better for them to save their work and log out instead of leaving open unsaved documents for a 6-hour period.

This is an issue where the settings file was deleted or corrupted.  A reinstall should fix.

Your server knows about the current version of Gruntwork and if this version is old.  Since Munki updates Gruntwork, it could indicate a problem with the Munki install or configuration that might be affecting other updates too.

There is a small period in which Munki has not updated Gruntwork, Gruntwork is reporting in to the server, and Watchman happens to catch it.  That situation will resolve itself when Munki updates.