Now offered as a separate application, Casper Remote makes managing your Mac environment even easier.

Remote Updating

The most efficient way to update a deployed machine is to use Casper. Casper initiates an end user forced pull from a File Share that has the computer's required packages. The forced pull has dramatically lower network usage than the standard push to end users' machines.

The File Shares that Casper uses as a package source can be housed on either OS X, Linux, Solaris, and/or Windows computers. Since the only requirement for a package source is the support of AFP or SMB, an organization can have as many shares as needed to support multiple floors or locations.

Beyond standard package pushing and uninstalling, Casper has the ability to manage virtually every aspect of the client computers. You can manage the mapped printers, local accounts, Active Directory bindings, add or remove items from user's Docks, and run Software Updates from locally hosted SWU servers.

Remote Utilities

Supporting machines that are frequently imaged and updated becomes easier because troubleshooting utilities can be run remotely. These actions can be run manually or on an automated schedule:

• Update inventory
• Fix permissions
• Change administrator password
• Search for any file
• Search for any file type
• Delete any file
• Kill any active process running in memory
• Run any UNIX command as Root