[Casper] Using Casper Distribution Points

Fri Jun 5 08:50:25 PDT 2009

I've been looking into netatalk (I think) a while ago for a distro  
point.  It's open source afp.  Throw that on linux and setup the  
accounts and you should be good to go.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Jun 5, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> There is an open source version of AFP that you can load on your  
> Linux servers.
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> http://alexthepuffin.googlepages.com/
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> I have only read about it.  I did in previous times use the open  
> source protocol for apple talk back in the day when I was tinkering  
> around with Linux boxes and it seemed to work OK.
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> Let us know how it works if you try it.  Seems to be backed by FUSE  
> which is an open source project of Google I think.  So it should  
> have decent backing and support.
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> Has anybody tried a NFS share, We were told it wasn't supported but  
> could work. We have Several Linux Servers we could use and no free  
> MAC servers
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> Not sure if this helps or not.
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> We just put in a new Xserve for the JSS. 2 x 2.93 Quad-Core CPU's.  
> 24GB RAM. Connected via Gigabit (Link Aggregation between 2 Gigabit  
> ports).
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> Yesterday we were imaging 30 Intel iMacs with about a 60GB image.   
> The throughput hit about 120MB/s with the average being 80MB/s.   
> During that time CPU utilization sat around 10% (out of 100%).
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> Point being that, in terms of imaging (with unicast), you are most  
> likely going to max out the network throughput before you max out  
> the CPU or RAM.
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> I'm not sure how it will preform during the school year with all the  
> policies, check-ins, and recons happening. (We have around 2500  
> clients)
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> Brad Rellinger
> Technology Specialist
> Anthony Wayne Local Schools K-12
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> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>  
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> I have 5 buildings with about 900 to 1300 laptops in each of them.   
> Each building has both a Mac mini and an Xserve.  The Xserve is the  
> main distribution point and also the netboot/imaging server for that  
> building since we don't want to image over the WAN.
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> We do have Mac Minis in the smaller computer labs and middles  
> schools where there are less macs deployed, and they do work fine.   
> You have to load OS X server on them though to get past the 10  
> client limit of AFP connections.
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> Overall, the Xserves make all the difference.  At first we just had  
> mac minis, now that we have both running and load balancing enabled  
> I get policy pushed out notably faster.  I also had my boss buy me  
> the most top of the line Xserve last year for our JSS and it has  
> 8gigs of RAM in it.
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> Minis will work, but if you are unicasting policies to 1000s of  
> laptops an xserve is much much better.  Plus if you try to netboot/ 
> image off a Mac mini, forget about it.  You'll be there for days  
> imaging just a few machines.  I have not tried multi casting with a  
> Mini though, and I wonder how that would work out?
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> Hope that helps
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> Tom
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> >>> "DuCharme, Cynthia (ESC)" <DuCharmeC at District279.org> 06/04/09  
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> Our district is currently beginning the process of migrating our  
> imaging and software package need to Casper.   I was wonder if any  
> of the larger districts that are using this software have  
> distribution points in the schools?   If so what kind of hardware  
> are you using?  Has any one tried using the Mac Mini’s?  Thanks for  
> your input.
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