Personal experience with Munki and Puppet, it worked pretty well on about 30,000 macs. :-)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Gilbert Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: > The ecosystem of software you can use to manage Macs is pretty diverse and > can be mixed-and-matched to suit your preferences. As you have identified, > and Ski has gone into some detail on, the 800lbs gorilla is Jamf and it's > Casper Suite. Their primary competitor is Filewave. > http://www.filewave.com > > Depending on your tastes, some alternative approaches include mixing and > matching... > > * Unix toolchains like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef (and the lesser known > Radmin - http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/) > * DeployStudio + Munki + luggage > * Apple's toolchain includes NetInstall Server, Profile Server (MCX > locally and via Open Directory still alive but depreciated), and Apple > Remote Desktop > * And, believe it or not... Microsoft System Center > > Special mention should be made of the various ways you can image a Mac. > Every 3rd party package, to my knowledge, uses Apple's native disk tools -- > asr(8), diskutil(8), installer(8). While some are certainly better than > others, if you have the time, you can create your own system from scratch, > too. The flexibility is pretty awesome. The documentation on how to go > about doing it without the help of the 3rd party software, not so > awesome.... > > For many of these topics, especially on system imaging, check out the > MacAdmins conference at Penn State University. They post their sessions > slides and video online. It's a great place to start! > > Gil > > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have need to manage some Apple Mac systems, mostly laptops, at $work. >> The only software I can find that looks like it has a chance of doing this >> well is the Casper Suite from Jamf Software. >> >> Do you have experience with that software, or other resources for >> managing employee assigned Mac laptops? >> >> -- >> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. >> --Atom Powers-- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Joseph A Kern [email protected]
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