As Graham Pugh and others have reported, running softwareupdate --list can cause the softwareupdated daemon to hang, also when softwareupdate is run as part of updating inventory in Jamf Pro. Pugh discovered that you can read the number of available updates using the following command: defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist RecommendedUpdates To be able to send notifications … Continue reading Smart Group workaround to determine which clients have software updates available in Jamf →