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Making and Managing Lists
You use lists to organize and perform management tasks on client computers. You can
make groups of lists, and rearrange the lists by dragging them up and down the left
side of the main window. Apple Remote Desktop has several dierent kinds of lists. The
following section describes the kinds of lists, and explains how to create lists and use
them for client management.
About Apple Remote Desktop Computer Lists
Apple Remote Desktop displays computers in lists in the main section of the Remote
Desktop window. The default computer list is called the All Computers list. This is a full
list of all possible clients that you have located and authenticated to. You can create
other lists to group the computers on your network in any way you wish.
Computer lists have the following capabilities:
You can create as many lists as you want. Â
The All Computers list can have up to the number of computers your license allows. Â
Computers can appear in more than one list. Â
Lists can be made in any grouping you can imagine: geographic, functional, Â
hardware conguration, even color.
Click a list name and keep the mouse over the list name, you can edit the list name. Â
If you double-click the list icon, you open another window containing the Â
computers in the list.
Creating an Apple Remote Desktop Computer List
You can make more specic, targeted lists of computers from your All Computers list.
The easiest way to make a new list is to use computers already in the All Computers
list. You can also create blank lists and add computers to them later.
To create an Apple Remote Desktop computer list:
1 Select the All Computers list icon in the Remote Desktop main window.
2 Select the computers you want to add to the new list.
3 Choose File > New List From Selection.
4 Name the computer list.
Alternatively, you can choose File > New List to create a blank list and drag computers
from the All Computers list, or from the scanner search results, to the blank list.
60 Chapter 4 Organizing Client Computers into Computer Lists