I know you can use SNMP traps with OS X Server, do the workstations offer any SNMP functionality? If so it's likely that you'd want to use that, one way or another.
Good luck, Fargo Sebastian Sparrer wrote: > Thanks so far ... well, in my application I want to be able to > perform some tasks as soon as a Mac is connected to the local > network. That is why I want to monitor the local network. Installing > an additional app and making holes into the firewall is not what I > want to do ... so I think I will use the MBS plugins to listen to > some common services such as file sharing, ichat ... and hope that > it's my best bet. > > But as Tom already wrote: If there are no services running, I'll > have no chance to discover the Mac. > > Regards > > Sebastian > > > Am 12.05.2007 um 12:40 schrieb Arnaud Nicolet: > > >> Le 12 mai 07 à 09:16 Matin, Tom Benson a écrit: >> >> >>> Hard to do.... >>> >>> Unless macs are advertising a service to the network (file sharing/ >>> printer sharing/ web sharing etc) then you cannot "discover" them. If >>> the user is savvy enough to have enabled the "Stealth" option in >>> their SW firewall then even a ping will not be aknowledged... >>> >>> One of the reasons why macs are fairly secure. >>> >> It might be possible to deactivate the firewall and make an >> application that listen on a port on every Mac. Then you send a >> message broadcasted (UDP, right?). >> This is indeed a security issue, but maybe, since it's for his >> specific use, he may do it (?). >> _______________________________________________ >> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
