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Remote Administration
Apple Remote Desktop 2 gives you the tools to perform routine administration tasks
without ever needing to leave your desk. You can use more than a dozen commands
on one or more remote Mac OS X client systems, including:
• Sleep, wake, restart, and shutdown
• Log out users
• Open files and applications
• Empty Trash
• Lock and unlock screens with a custom or default image
• Rename computers, with the option of adding unique numbers
In addition, Apple Remote Desktop 2 introduces two new commands: Remote Shell
Scripts and Remote Boot Disk Selection.
Like all Apple Remote Desktop 2 tasks, these commands can be scheduled to run at
a specified date and time or saved for later use.
Remote Shell Scripts
The UNIX-based foundation of Mac OS X provides a rich set of command-line tools for
administering Mac OS X systems. Apple Remote Desktop 2 offers a powerful feature
that enables to you to execute UNIX shell scripts and commands on multiple remote
client systems and get feedback on their success or failure. This capability gives you
unlimited flexibility to accomplish system maintenance tasks—even if there is no
explicit Apple Remote Desktop 2 command for the task. What’s more, Apple Remote
Desktop 2 includes two new command-line tools—systemsetup and networksetup—
that can set the Network, Energy Saver, and Date & Time system preferences.
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Technology Overview
Apple Remote Desktop 2
Remote shell scripts
networksetup allows administrators to
perform the following functions:
• View or change computer names
• List all port names with their Ethernet
(MAC) addresses
• List all hardware port information by port
configuration
• View the Ethernet (MAC) address of a port
• Scan for new hardware ports
• View or list valid MTU values for a port
• View or list valid media settings for a port
• Change media settings for a port
• List existing port information
• Create, duplicate, rename, or delete a port
configuration
• Enable or disable port configurations
• Change configuration precedence
• View or change IP address, subnet mask, or
router address
• View or change DNS servers
• Enable or disable AppleTalk
• View or change FTP, web, secure web, stream-
ing, SOCKS, and Gopher proxy settings
• View or change AirPort settings
systemsetup allows administrators to perform
the following functions:
• View or change computer names
• View or change computers’ date, time, and
time zone settings
• View or change computers’ network time
server setting
• View or change sleep settings
• View or change automatic restart settings
• View or change startup disk settings
• View or change remote login settings
• View or change Apple Events response