This is the web-enabled database that accepts and organizes all of the information from the other components. What differentiates the Casper Suite from some other products is that the JSS is a centralized server. This one common repository allows you to track all necessary information, monitor usage, and perform administrative tasks and support functions across multiple locations.
The JSS Web Server
Because the JSS is a web server running on your intranet, it allows users on Macintosh, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms to access its functionality. Communication with the JSS is secure using industry standard SSL encryption. The JSS allows you to remotely track:
Multiple Locations, One JSS
The information passed between client machines and the JSS are small XML transactions that enable data to be passed quickly over great distances. The Casper Suite also takes advantage of File Shares to pass its packages to client machines. This division of labor means environments can have their configurations stored in one place while files are distributed from share points on local subnets.
- Performing Administrative Tasks
- The convenience of the JSS makes administrative tasks easier. With the Casper Suite, you can:
- Create users: This allows you to assign different levels of control to different JSS users
- Create departments: Set up functional workgroups within your organization
- Create buildings: Create logical names for your sites
- Peripherals: Add, delete, and modify peripherals supported within your organization
- File servers: Add additional locations in order to pull packages
- LDAP servers: Add, delete, and edit LDAP servers to get user and group information
- Active directory: Bind your Active Directory information with the JSS
- Create Policies: Policies allow you to perform all of the remote management tasks that Casper can perform. This allows you to manage all of your client computers from a web browser
- Requirements
- Mac OS: 8.6, 9, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
- Windows NT4, 2000/2003 Professional
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