Update of ARD "Info" Field w/ Serial#

Trolling through the forums I was able to find a true ARD gem. Placing the Serial # of a machine into one the the info fields of the sharing console.
Below is a code snippet from Joel. D. Reid which is excellent on the 10.5.8 machines, but does not run on 10.4.11 (tiger) Can anyone offer a 10.4.11 solution that is similar?
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart -configure -computerinfo -set2 -2 "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/{print $NF}')" && sleep 2 && /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/k ickstart -restart -agent -console ;
Any help would be much appreciated.

Just have a couple thoughts. I've had better luck with using kickstart proper than defaults for changing ard info fields and actually having the agent recognize the change. Also, if you're able to get it to update via kickstart, you could just append that to your script. I routinely send the following via Send UNIX Command as root for at-a-glance access to the serial number:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart -configure -computerinfo -set2 -2 "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/{print $NF}')" && sleep 2 && /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/k ickstart -restart -agent -console ;
The 'sleep 2' was tacked in as sometimes kickstart apparently exits before it's actually done. The consecutive commands are appended using && rather than ; so the agent restart step isn't done unless the -setX -X one succeeds. Also note that if all works as planned, the ARD task never actually finishes as you're interrupting the remote ARD agent mid-stream; just wait for the clients to all return "Starting..." twice and then hit stop on that active task.
In any case, you can change the -set2 -2 to choose an info field, then substitute in your Foo commands in place of "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/{print $NF}')"
Hope that helps some. Let us know how you've made out.
Cheers, Joel

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