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VMware Horizon Client 2309 (8.11.0-22660933) and Wandering WiFi LLC

Oct 31, 2023, 18 min read

• #troubleshooting

After upgrading some of my macOS packages using Homebrew (based on brew outdated -list), I noticed some new items under System Settings(.app) > General > Login Items > Allow in the Background .

And by “new”, I mean ” Wandering WiFi LLC ”, with “3 items: 2 items affect all users”

Wandering WiFi LLC? §

Question Who is “Wandering WiFi LLC”?

Some quick Google searches for “Wandering WiFi LLC” led me to believe “Wandering WiFi LLC” was a division of AirWatch, hence (now) a part of the VMware umbrella (or should I say Broadcom? Too soon?).

Sources “AirWatch was founded in 2003 as Wandering WiFi by John Marshall, who served as president and CEO” “Wandering WiFi, LLC, now a division of AirWatch was founded in 2003 by John Marshall and Alan J. Dabbiere, former employees of the Manhattan Associates, a company that began installing wireless distribution and logistics networks in 1990” ]

Based on that, I quickly knew that the items in question were related to upgrading the VMware Horizon Client , which I upgraded to version “2309” (8.11.0-22660933)

Based on Build numbers and versions of VMware Horizon Connection Server (2143853) , I noticed it was a relatively new release ( 2023-10-26 , which is 4-5 days since this note/post).

I then checked the release notes, mainly:

• VMware Horizon 8 2309 Release Notes
• VMware Horizon Client for Mac 2309 Release Notes

I did not find anything related to the keywords “Wandering”, “WiFi”, or “LLC”

Note that I also noticed a relevant question raised yesterday, from VMTN Communities (currently unanswered): Horizon Client and Wandering Wifi LLC - VMware Technology Network VMTN

Research new macOS background items §

Well, this is how it really started; I wanted a bit more details (ok, as much as possible) from the items listed in System Settings(.app) > General > Login Items > Allow in the Background , a bit more than “just a name”, at least.

After checking the usual places first (e.g. LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons ), I still did not find any items with the keyword “Wandering”, e.g. by doing a grep -Hinr "Wandering" ). I knew it was displayed in “Allow in the background”-list, hence searched for alternative ways to retrieve the list, including (possibly) more details.

I then found this thread which mentions the (not-so-very-well documented) tool sfltool

Quote You can get much more verbose output about all startup items simultaneously on the command line with  sfltool dumpbtm . The output is fairly self-explanatory, but the tool itself seems almost completely undocumented. Objective See has  a slightly more featureful and documented version  that is also open source (compiled binaries can be downloaded from the  release page ). That tool’s README also explains the new consolidation of the various types of login items (LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons, login items).

And by “the usual places”, this will be a good starting point, as well (same post)

Quote In my specific case the “Allow in the Background” login items are coming from  /Library/LaunchAgents Other login related are Applications that run on Startup ls -lah /Library/StartupItems Property list (plist) items running on startup ls -lah /Library/LaunchDaemons ls -lah /System/Library/LaunchDaemons Applications that launch on User Login ls -lah /Library/LaunchAgents ls -lah ~/Library/LaunchAgents ls -lah /System/Library/LaunchAgents Applications that run on a set schedule crontab -l Kernel Extensions kextstat Login and Logout Hooks defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook

sfltool dumpbtm §

Output from sfltool dumpbtm did indeed show show more details.

The output from sfltool was indeed much more detailed, and included exactly what I was searching for: here is (partial) output, filtering on items with name “Wandering WiFi LLC”

🕵🏻‍♂️ From the output above, two identifiers was of main interest for further details; com.vmware.deemd and com.vmware.vmwetlm

DEEM and vmwetlm? §

Com.vmware.deem is §.

Guestimate: Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM)?

Based on https://www.vmware.com/nordics/products/workspace-one/digital-employee-experience-management.html

Digital Employee Experience Management (DEEM) is an end user experience management software that empowers you to measure, analyze and remediate employee experience, from anywhere and on any device. By leveraging machine learning (ML) models, DEEM enables you to move from reactive to proactive IT, cut through the noise and focus on what matters most.

com.vmware.vmwetlm is? §

Guestimate: VMware Experience Management Service

Based on https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workspace-ONE-Intelligence/services/intelligence-documentation/GUID-IntelExperienceManagement.html

One way to troubleshoot issues with sending data to Workspace ONE Intelligence is to ensure the Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub or the DEEM Telemetry Agent for Windows is running on the Windows device. The DEEM Telemetry Agent includes two services . Service Name Service Display Name VMWOSQEXT VMware Digital Experience Telemetry vmwetlm VMware Experience Management Service

Uninstall scripts §

Even though telemetry might be needed (and useful!) in many cases, I wanted to see if it was possible to uninstall the new background services, without (totally) breaking the VMware Horizon Client

I also noticed that the vmwetlm process was running in the background on macOS , even while the Horizon Client was fully closed (not connected to any Horizon Services). So new background services possibly burning precious (and unneeded) CPU cycles, increasing my carbon footprint, etc.

Research on (possible) footprint?

Quote source: Experience Management What is the Experience Management footprint on your devices? § The footprint is comparatively small. The tested configurations for Experience Management suggest a periodic impact of up to 5% CPU usage for a typical 4 core CPU . Tested configurations also suggest 10 to 40 Mb of memory usage on each Windows or macOS device.

While searching the package files, we can (finally) see some uninstall.sh scripts. Let’s try them out!

Trying to remove vmwetlm

Trying out the uninstall script…

👎 Well, that did not go well, notice:

There are other installation items, will keep the package.

Let’s try to remove deem first, then debug vmwetlm more later.

Uninstall script

👍 daemon and service successfully deleted.

Continue debugging “VMware.EndpointTelemetryService/vmwetlm/uninstall.sh” script

So we got this

From line 181

So the check resulting in failure being:

plist_path is?

${CONFIG_PATH}/${INSTALL_CONF} is?

Line 135-137

So the command is (after variables translated)

grep -c is?

So, array listing VMware.HorizonClient. No go.

I then found on line 160

And on lines 124-133

👍 daemon stopped and deleted.

The mentioned items from System Settings(.app) > General > Login Items > Allow in the Background are gone as well.

Question Guess the next step should be researching the side effects of removing telemetry services(?), e.g. from an admin perspective (cause I also have Horizon Servers, and I like telemetry data… sometimes).

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Perpetual "Background Items Added"

Since upgrading to macOS 13.x, I've received a sequence of Background Items Added notifications with every restart. Permission for all these is enabled under General > Login items: Allow in the Background:

Nonetheless, every time I restart, I get another round of notifications. Obviously this is nothing like fatal, but nonetheless, I'd like to suppress the superfluous warnings about things that aren't problems.

Mac mini, macOS 13.1

Posted on Nov 2, 2022 3:30 PM

Posted on Feb 19, 2023 9:03 AM

I think I solved this – for myself, at very least.

Full disclosure: I am not an Apple developer. However, I am a software engineer with > 20 years experience working on UNIX and UNIX-Like systems (mainly Linux variants), similar to MacOS.

OK! All that being said, here's what I did:

Reboot in Safe Mode

• Remove unwanted items from /Library/LaunchDaemons/
• Remove unwanted items from /Library/LaunchAgents/
• Remove unwanted items from /Users/username/Library/LaunchAgents/ (aka "~/Library/LaunchAgents")
• Reset background task management database
• Reboot and login normally

Before I did this, I was getting dozens and dozens of "Background Items Added" warnings. (Ventura 13.1 on a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro.) My logic for this was as follows:

• When the Mac fully boots up and the user logs in normally, the state of running apps is held in memory, and may be written out to disk at any time.
• Making changes in this state, therefore, may not have a permanent effect
• When booted in "Safe Mode" no background applications are started. (Or, at least, only the very essential ones.)
• Therefore, changes can be made which will survive a restart, from Safe Mode

Furthermore : Startup tasks may be run at system boot , at login of ANY user, and at login of a particular user account. As I understand it:

• /Library/LaunchDaemons : Run at system boot
• /Library/LaunchAgents : Run when any user logs in
• ~/Library/LaunchAgents: Run when that particular user logs in

TL;DR: JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

Ok, I feel you. Here is the step-by-step. Like I said, this worked for ME. YMMV. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Apple Menu -> Restart. Hold down the SHIFT key (Intel Macs) until you see the login screen.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

Remove unwanted startup items, reset BTM database, restart

• Open up Terminal.app ( link ).
• mkdir -pv /tmp/DISABLED/LaunchDaemons
• mkdir -pv /tmp/DISABLED/LaunchAgents
• mkdir -pv /tmp/DISABLED/User-LaunchAgents
• List all files by typing: " ls -la "
• Move each file you want to disable by typing: " mv -v file.to.disable /tmp/DISABLED/User-LaunchAgents/ "
• Switch to the root (aka "admin") account by typing: " sudo su - " and then entering your admin password.
• Move each file you want to disable by typing: " mv -v file.to.disable /tmp/DISABLED/LaunchDaemons/ "
• Move each file you want to disable by typing: " mv -v file.to.disable /tmp/DISABLED/LaunchAgents/ "
• Reset background task management database: " sfltool resetbtm "
• Exit terminal and reboot normally

I know this looks like a lot. If anything goes sideways, /tmp/DISABLED contains the files you removed. Just move them back and restart.

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Feb 19, 2023 9:03 AM in response to r bryan

Dec 13, 2022 9:25 PM in response to leroydouglas

This fault is a serious Pain-in the ***. I cleaned out my Launch items in ~/Library, turned off the Login Items as suggested, and just get the same notifications piling up on my screen, advising me to turn them on! This is OS-wide and needs a fix from Apple, not just a workaround.

Dec 16, 2022 7:54 AM in response to slps01

slps01, have you tried my solution yet?

Look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (you can copy paste into go to folder from Finder), sort alphabetically and look for whatever the name of the application is that's bugging you with those pop-ups. Delete, empty trash, and restart.

It's also worth looking in Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents and Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons for those same applications. Again, delete, empty trash, and restart.

Dec 15, 2022 9:56 PM in response to r bryan

Possible fix - this did it for me!

Dec 16, 2022 8:44 AM in response to paul_melbourne

paul_melbourne wrote:

I cleaned out my Launch items in ~/Library

That's not possible. Or rather, whatever you were doing in ~/Library will have no effect or cause damage.

turned off the Login Items as suggested

Suggested by whom? Don't do that.

, and just get the same notifications piling up on my screen, advising me to turn them on! This is OS-wide and needs a fix from Apple, not just a workaround.

And to show I'm not picking on anyone in particular...

Look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (you can copy paste into go to folder from Finder)

Nope. Not gonna work.

It's also worth looking in Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgents and Macintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemons for those same applications.

Again, no. Don't do this. If may have an effect, but I'm positive it is not what you want.

Here's the story...

Many apps require some sort of background tasks running. Sometimes they are always running. Sometimes they only run in response to various system events. Regardless, they are part of 3rd party apps that you have installed on purpose, and possibly paid money for. If those files are deleted, your 3rd party apps will not work properly.

Perhaps, at some point in the future, 3rd party developers will adapt to this new interface and make their apps more robust in the face of this kind user "intervention". But for now, it would probably be a bad idea to delete these files or even to disable them. I realize Apple has provided an interface to disable these tasks. That being said, I strongly feel that very few developers are adequate prepared for this new behaviour. Use it at your own risk.

Furthermore, Apple has made fundamental changes to how these launch items work. These files that people are attempting to delete are migrating from those locations in ~/Library and /Library to inside their associated app bundles. If you try to modify the app bundles, the app may not launch at all.

And the bad news keeps on comin'. Even if you disable or delete these files, the app in question can always re-enable them or even reinstall them. I have seen reports that some popular apps are already doing this. I'm afraid that the only real solution is to uninstall apps if you do not agree with their behaviour.

There are reports that this repeated dialog may be a bug in Ventura. With this kind of software, it is very difficult to say. It could be buggy behaviour within the apps. Considering how difficult it is for regular people to diagnose these issues, it is very difficult to get meaningful information. And the new interface in Ventura doesn't help. It lists items by developer name. But it obtains this from developer signatures. But those apps most like to cause problems are the ones that don't have signatures. The are the items identified as "SCloudWatch", "SshResident", or even just "open". To even find out what those items really are is quite difficult. There are some easier methods, but I can't mention them. 😄

I wish I had something better to tell people. I thought this was going to be a royal can-o-worms and I'm being proven right. That had to happen eventually, eh?

Dec 16, 2022 12:58 PM in response to etresoft

I'm sure that you are correct about this, but I am also fairly convinced that this is a Ventura problem--otherwise I would not have an Allow in Background for an item entitled "Joseph Siegrist". It doesn't relate to any app that I have installed, and someone on the internet suggested that Joseph Siegrist is a software developer at Apple. I did try trashing a bunch of apps that showed up on the notifications whenever I started my computer or opened System Setting, and that may have solved at least a part of the problem.

Dec 9, 2022 5:55 PM in response to leroydouglas

I have also had this same problem. I've turned this off for specific items and they keep reappearing every time I start the app again. Very frustrating and makes me wish I hadn't upgraded to Ventura.

Is there another workaround?

Dec 15, 2022 7:58 AM in response to r bryan

This was enough of an annoyance for me to take my M1 Mac mini off my desk and switch back to using my Bee-Link mini PC and Windows 11. Apple seriously needs to tighten up on their quality control. When a $450 computer behaves better than a $1,000 Mac, we have a problem.

Dec 16, 2022 8:00 AM in response to r bryan

Since the latest update I got the notification only once, the first time I booted up. Since then nada.

Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE 1: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following; 

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed

• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)

• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically

• Disables user-installed fonts 

• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

NOTE 2 : if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect it with its charging cable before booting into Safe Mode. This makes it act as a wired keyboard as will insure a successful boot into Safe Mode.

Dec 16, 2022 1:05 PM in response to slps01

Joseph Siegrist is the developer for LastPass. Do you have that installed?

For some reason Apple is showing the developer's name instead of the app's name. Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added to the system via Feedback - macOS - Apple .  

For any others just do a Google search for "xxxxx software for mac".

Dec 20, 2022 3:58 PM in response to r bryan

We should get those notification onlly when we update or upgrade the system. Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

Mar 14, 2023 10:55 AM in response to r bryan

They should only appear once after an update or upgrade. Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

Oct 8, 2023 10:04 AM in response to r bryan

Nov 3, 2022 2:39 AM in response to r bryan

r bryan wrote:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9d12aefc-c250-47d8-bfec-54831f6f3317

I would turn off as many as these as you can bear to live without and compare your results—in an effort to isolate the issue.

no insight or resolve:

Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)

or on line Apple Support

or call AppleCare Support at 1-800-APLCARE (800-275-2273)

Outside the USA—Contact Apple for support and service by phone

See a list of Apple phone numbers around the world.

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Dec 17, 2022 7:13 AM in response to slps01

slps01 wrote:

I am still receiving notifications from several of the items that I didn't trash (Adobe, Microsoft, etc).

It would be helpful if you could start your own thread and describe the problem in detail.

And I don't say that in an offhanded, get-away-from-here-you-threadjacker kind of way. I mean it would be really, really helpful to have a detailed description of your specific problem. Describe exactly what changes, if any, that you've made in this new interface. Describe exactly what those notifications say. Screenshots are immensely helpful. Please be thorough. If you get 5 notifications, 5 screenshots would be really nice.

I realize that many problems look the same. Maybe the are the same. But something is clearly wrong. Most people don't see this at all. So why are you seeing it and most other people are not. It may, indeed, be a Ventura bug. But since most people don't see it, maybe we can figure out why you are seeing it.

I can't emphasize this enough. For these kinds of problems, these "me too" replies are totally useless. They are often worse than useless because people get angry and then refuse to provide any kind of debugging or diagnostic information. When that happens, nobody gets any closer to the answer. People then wait eagerly, applying every single software update, waiting for a fix that is never, ever going to arrive.

I wonder where the Apple support staff is hiding; they certainly were unable to deal with this.

Apple support can only deal with common problems that are already addressed with Apple support documents. These kinds of issues require "engineering" support, which is extremely difficult to get. And even when they tell you the problem has been escalated to engineering, that probably isn't true.

You can send product feedback to Apple, where you issue will be aggregated and maybe addressed in 2-3 years. Or you can write an official bug report , where, if you are really lucky, your bug may be fixed in 6-12 months. And even then, you have to supply copious amounts of information. Let's be honest here. You have to find the cause of the bug and tell them how to reproduce it. Anything else, they are just say they can't reproduce it, look at your 3rd party system modifications, and move on to the next one.

I have a good example. iOS 16 included a severe bug in HealthKit, documented in this forum . iOS is a major platform for Apple, not like macOS. While this bug didn't affect most people, it was really embarrassing. It wasn't just some strange edge case. Somebody really dropped the ball. Not counting 3 months of beta release. It took 3 months of general release to get this bug fixed. I found the problem and fixed it in about 30 minutes. I'm only saying that to show you how drop-dead easy it was to fix this bug. They literally don't get any easier that this one and it took 6 months to fix it. The bug being described in this thread is many times more difficult to diagnose and solve.

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macOS Ventura Bug Spits Out Perpetual 'Background Items Added' Notifications at Login, Here's a Potential Fix

Numerous Mac users are repeatedly encountering a bug in macOS Ventura that throws up Login Items notifications for various background app processes every time they start up their machine, even when the processes in question have been disabled.

Curiously, there is no option in System Settings -> General -> Login Items to remove background items added to macOS by installed apps. Users can only disable listed items by toggling switches. Doing this however seems to have no impact on the notifications, and in some cases can cause more to appear.

Complaints across Reddit , Twitter , Apple Support Community discussions , and various other app-specific forums repeatedly cite app processes such as Google Updater, Adobe CC Helper, and Dropbox as culprits, but these only appear to be referenced more often because they are popular apps with background processes. Almost any third-party background process can seemingly be referenced in the persistent Login Items notifications.

It did this when updating from 13.0 to 13.1 WHY — ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ (@Quinten0508) November 8, 2022

Only a few users have been successful at ridding their Mac of the notifications by carrying out the following actions, although caution should be applied and users do so at their own risk.

• Open Finder , then select Go -> Go to Folder... in the menu bar.
• Copy and paste the following address into the input field and press Enter: ~/Library/LaunchAgents
• A Finder window will open at the LaunchAgents folder. Show the items as a list organized by name, then search for the app or developer name associated with the process that's causing the Login Items notifications.
• Delete the .plist file, then empty the Trash.
• Restart your Mac.
• If the above steps don't work, look in the ~/Library/LaunchDaemons folder. If there are launch daemons in there associated with the app/developer, delete those too, empty Trash, and restart.

Based on reports, the bug has been around since early beta versions of macOS Ventura, but there have been more frequent incidences reported on Macs running macOS 13.1 and later. Apple is seemingly aware of the problem, but has not commented.

I’ve been trying to stop Microsoft Edge from doing this, too! Can’t find any settings anywhere in Edge to stop it. All I see to be able to do is remove it from Login Items…but then it’s back at login again! Very frustrating. I didn’t consent to this. — Jeff (@gank41) November 10, 2022

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Content - Workspace ONE 4+

Vmware workspace one, airwatch, llc.

• 3.3 • 104 Ratings

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Description.

Workspace ONE Content brings you secure access to all of your files anytime, anywhere, across your devices. Easily share files, mark files as favorites, access documents offline, edit Office documents and annotate PDF files with built-in editing tools. **Quickly Search for Files** Use Content as your single access point to search across the places your content is stored, regardless of whether the content is downloaded to your device or not. Once you’ve hit search, add filters to find exactly what you’re looking for. **Instant Sharing and Collaboration** Share files and communicate with colleagues in real-time within Content with file sharing, adding a comment or @ tagging a colleague. **Easily Favorite Content** Use a document often? Simply tap the star by the file you wish to favorite and find it even faster next time. **Create New Documents and Folders** Need something new? Easily add new documents, media, folders or connect to a new repository by tapping the plus in bottom right of the app.

Version 24.04

• Seamlessly access repositories after a password change. • Improved icon experience in the App

Ratings and Reviews

104 Ratings

Constant Logging in

Constantly have to log into each folder, even after selecting stay logged in.

Crashes when opening PDFs

Can’t open files because the program constantly crashes. Have to delete and re-install. Will work for a day and then starts crashing again. Fix your app and quit being lazy.

Developer Response ,

Sorry to hear you're having a bad experience with our app. We understand the severity of this issue and with your help, we'd like the opportunity to investigate this further. Therefore, please reach out to your IT help desk & ask them to escalate this issue to our enterprise support teams so that we can troubleshoot this right away.

Crashes regularly, continually asks for my log in credentials…. Really not that useful a as a productivity tool in my opinion… wish our IT department would find something better, really can not rely on this product for anything important

Hi, sorry to hear you've been having troubles with Content! The crashes you've experienced are not expected and we understand how they might be affecting your work. Please, contact your organization's IT Help Desk as they can help with troubleshooting or escalating issues to our Support teams for investigation.

App Privacy

The developer, AirWatch, LLC , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy .

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

• Identifiers

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

• Contact Info
• User Content
• Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

• Developer Website
• App Support
• Privacy Policy

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