[Casper] Web based Self Service

[Thomas Larkin]

WOW!  20,000 mac clients.  I thought I had it bad with about 8,000 and
6,000 of them being laptops....

We ran recon off a mac mini and had it run via network segments to grab
all of our Macs into inventory.   I also just would scan one whole VLAN
in ARD Admin and drop the quickadd.pkg in and install it that way
remotely, then also as post install send a recon command.  

When you get all your 20k clients in inventory I am curious to how big
your database is going to be.  My 6,000ish clients in my inventory makes
my database around 6 to 8 gigs (with all the policy and package logs)
and at times it has gone up to over 16 gigs but I trim it down when that
happens.

Do you happen to have any tech guys on site at these locations?  They
could always just load the quickadd by hand?

-Tom
 
>>> <dhowell at austinisd.org> 07/23/09 9:06 AM >>> 
you can add PKG to Casper 7. We have somewhere between 16-20 thousand 
MACS. and they have all kinds of Images on them. We are slowly
introducing 
them all to Casper. I have a login script on my OD that mount a NFS
share 
and copy in the JAMF binary and Conf file. Than it runs Recon via
command 
line. This works well but only 6 thousand are attached to the OD
servers. 
I also have scanned  with ARD. But having 120 locations, it becomes 
difficult. I am just looking for as many ways possible to add them to
the 
database. I will try the Network Segment in Recon also. Thanks Thomas



D. Trey Howell
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"Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org>
 
07/23/2009 08:52 AM

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Re: [Casper] Web based Self Service






Trey,

You would need to have the quickadd.pkg already added to the computer
as it holds the ssh account info that Casper uses for authentication
for
installing packages.  The only other way would be to run self service
and try to install it but use the local admin account's credentials,
as
the JAMF binary installs items in several locations all needing sudo
privileges to run.

You can install it via ARD Admin remotely, then it should work if you
want to add machines to inventory from a remote location.  You can
also
use the recon.app to hit certain subnets and add computers also.

Hope that helps

Tom
 
>>> <dhowell at austinisd.org> 07/23/09 8:14 AM >>> 
Is anybody using the web version of Self Service? The client I get to
work 
perfectly. I was looking into using the web based one for computers
not

yet in database and have the quick add package in there to add them.
The 
web one always says no authorization, no matter which computer I pick?










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