Jackie writes: > I'd like to get >things a little more organized --------- This seems to be important for many of us - how do manage LOTs of machines' licenses. The management piece ought to integrate into other management pieces, or at least be intuitive. In the best of worlds, you set it once, and let it run itself. The Sophos tool looked fairly intuitive, but it might be better if it tied to AD somehow, ala SMS, perhaps.
NAI's Virex has an administrative tool for pre-OSX machines that pushes updates out. Sadly, I've not found one yet that does that for OSX. But the machines can be set to do an autoE-Update. We just needed to decide whether to have them all check via the 'net, or to check a server locally. Right now we have so few OSX machines that it's not an issue. It certainly will become more so as we migrate the rest of our OS9 machines to OSX. The other concern is the cost. Obviously keeping that low is important. FWIW, we bought McAffee's "Perpetual" license, so that the only thing we need to do is consider maintenance and/or support fees. This year we dropped to email support only, which is sufficient thus far. The Sophos price is pretty darn good, but I've been burned too many times with "Lifetime Free support" turning to paid support - that I'm wary of giving that too much credence. My two cents' worth, Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
