LabMan Conference: June 8 & 9, 2010 Lauren Nicholas, Moravian College

OUR ENVIRONMENT 200–250 Total Macs Public Labs Faculty Desktops & Laptops Staff Desktops & Laptops Podiums in Smart Classrooms 3 X Serves Windows Servers, Exchange 2008, Active Directory

OUR ENVIRONMENT Before we had Casper... Bombich tools (ccc, netrestore) Firewire HDD’s, cloning, etc.

COMPOSERIMAGING SUITE CASPER SUITE RECON SUITE Products FROM JAMF SOFTWARE

Client management toolbox for OS X -Natively designed for Macintosh Platform -Full integration with OS X client & server. Uses native tools to do some of its work. Agent-less, easy interface -Nothing to install. A small binary reports back to server. -Central management & central database — assign out functionality to certain people in your department. Developed by System Administrators -Developed out of deploying and managing by-hand. Remote and automated performance of IT tasks -Daily, monthly, nights & weekends. OVERVIEW

Imaging -New machine deployment, creating image, configure settings & printers Software Updates -From Apple and other vendors New software titles -You don’t have to wait for a school break to roll out new software Issue resolution -Quick maintenance; preventative maintenance of its work. CLIENT MANAGEMENT

Inventory -Licensing & compliance: software, hardware, fonts, plug-ins. -Dynamic inventory that is updated on a schedule of your choice. Image -Package building with Composer. Deploy with Casper Imaging. Update -OS Updates, Software updates, New software titles Maintain -Proactive support Policy-based tasks. CASPER SUITE LIFE CYCLE ON MACS

ARCHITECTURE MySQL & Tomcat -Heart of the whole suite. Runs on Mac OS X Server. JSS (JAMF Software Server) -Web interface is an entry point to a lot of the data and functionality of the suite. -Accessible from any machine with a web browser.

ARCHITECTURE Recon (uses secure SSH) Composer -Collects the inventory data and submits it back to the JSS. Allows the machine to be in a “managed” state. -Enables SSH, locks it down, makes it secure. Only cross-platform tool in suite. -pkg or dmg formats. -dmg will fill user templates

ARCHITECTURE Casper Admin (Modular approach to imaging) Casper (actual deployment tools) -after you’ve built all your packages, you use Casper Admin to organize your packages into configurations for imaging.