[Casper] Recon Rollout Question

[Smith, William]

Hi James!

If you have network connectivity then you don't really need to push the
Recon application to your Macs. That functionality is built into the small
JAMF binary file, which gets pushed when you add machines to your server.

Or you can use Recon on your own computer to scan a network segment and
connect to all the Macs on a network segment to take inventory. This
requires you know the admin names and passwords on each Mac.

As for a central JSS server I suggest just one. We have one in our Saint
Paul office that manages machines in more than a dozen sites, some of which
are international sites. To install software you do want to have local
software repository servers. We simply use our existing Windows file servers
in each local office.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492


On Tuesday 9/16/08 7:07 AM, "Burnett, James (GCG IT)"
<james.burnett at greyeu.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> We are currently running Casper 6 sucessfully in our local office LAN and want
> to rollout (in particular Recon) to our other offices in Western Europe. Many
> of these are on slower links and do not have a large infrastructure and
> certainly do not have OSX server. Other offices are larger and have around 50
> to 100 macs and a better osx backend and links. We are trying to find a
> solution that best fits moving forward and planning the best way to implement
> Recon to start. Essentially we need to run recon on all of the macs in WEU to
> report on software licensing.
> 
> Question is: do people think it is a good idea to use a centrally managed
> server from London and have them reporting back to our server or is it best to
> go with asking the offices to install a local copy of osx server and run their
> own versions? Ideally we would like to maintain control of the data and be
> able to access (which I know you can do either way over http). Ideally we
> would like to have a good booster server setup in the future that we could
> share our applications, etc but at present that is not our main goal.