Manage Mac Computer Network with Apple Remote Desktop 3
May 19, 2008 – 7:53 amApple Remote Desktop 3 is aimed at IT personnel responsible for large numbers of computers, but is also great solution for small groups who need to assist individuals or perform group demonstrations.
Apple Remote Desktop 3 enables you to observe or control any number of remote Mac or Virtual Network Computing (VNC)–enabled computers. You can maintain, update, and distribute software; create detailed software and hardware reports; provide real-time online help to end-users when they encounter problems; and automate routine management tasks to your network.
This application makes it easy to install or copy software across a network of Mac computers, including remote systems. Using the Spotlight technology in Mac OS X Tiger, Apple Remote Desktop 3 can perform detailed searches on all your systems and quickly generate comprehensive user histories and application usage reports, as well as hardware and software inventories about servers, desktop systems, and portable computers. It can also configure systems, run applications, empty the Trash, log out current users, set the start-up disk, and lock screens.
Auto Install is another great feature used for distributing software to remote, mobile, or offline systems. When a computer is offline, this feature will automatically update the system as soon as the computer is back on the network.
Remote Drag and Drop feature lets you quickly transfer files between two computers simply by dropping files or folders from your computer onto a remotely controlled computer, or vice versa. Remote Copy and Paste feature will remotely copy and paste information between local and remote computers. Power Copy is a file copy engine that uses multi cast technology and supports 64-bit file sizes, network bandwidth limits, and optional encryption of data streams. A permissions editor can specify the user and group ownership of a copied file on remote system and for that remote computer support is good for managing Mac computer network.
Additionally, Apple Remote Desktop 3 includes more than 30 Automator actions, which can be chained together to create system administration workflows. Task Templates feature comes populated with more than 30 helpful UNIX scripts and lets you can save task settings as templates for later use.
Apple Remote Desktop 3 comes in two editions: 10 Managed Systems edition retails for $299 per administrator, while Unlimited Managed Systems edition retails for $499 per administrator, and allows you to manage any number of client computers with no per-client charge. You can get this networking application from Apple’s online store.
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