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Creating Reports
Apple Remote Desktop lets you query client computers for many kinds of information,
from installed software to network speed and reliability. Creating reports gives you
valuable information about the client computers. Reports also help when you’re
copying les and organizing computer lists.
Collecting Report Data
When creating a report, Remote Desktop can collect new, up-to-date information, or it
can use information that it’s previously cached. A client’s le system may be searched
using its Spotlight database.
To collect new, up-to-date, information for a report, the Remote Desktop application
queries a client directly, and waits for the client computer to respond with the desired
information. A new data search gets the most recent information, but takes longer
because the client computer has to gather all the data and send it over the network
to the waiting administrator computer. New data reports are also generated by clients
whose reporting policy is set to send data only in response to a report query.
Remote Desktop can also generate a report using information it has previously cached.
When using cached information, the application queries the Remote Desktop internal
database of collected system information (such as hardware information and system
settings), le information (including installed applications and versions, and software
names), or both. You determine what type of report cache data to store and how often
to rebuild this information.
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