Managing a Gaggle of Macs
The Mac News posting Managing Sysadmin Tasks on Macs by Remote Control.
Late last month, LANDesk Software rolled out Version 8.8 of its namesake suite of management tools. LANDesk said its software now lets systems administrators remotely control both Macs and PCs from a Macintosh-based console. The upgrade also lets users take more-detailed inventories of their Macintosh systems and the software that resides on them.
There are other management tools for Macs such as the Symantec Altiris Client Management Suite and FileWave from FileWave International Holding.
Terrence Cosgrove, an analyst at Gartner (NYSE: IT) , said via e-mail that among management tools vendors, LANDesk is furthest along in supporting Macs. LANDesk’s software “can do OS deployment, data [and] settings migration, software distribution, inventory and remote control for Mac machines,” Cosgrove wrote.
Most likely more vendors will join in as the Mac slowly makes its way into corporations.
…John
