![]() ![]() That is unless you want to dedicated development resources in-house for such a thing. This is why I express that any customization should be built on top of a solid framework, and not from the ground up, nor around the product you are using. I want to set up a support method for whenever an employee leaves for whatever reason, the next person in line to take over has all the proper tools, support and training they need. My customer is the org, not the individual, so I look at qualifying what is best for the org. Since I am an outsider (consultant/vendor) to most orgs I look at IT from an operations perspective. Depending on your needs and requirement depends on how you should leverage each tool set. However, best practices, will be per the org you work for. I know that Absolute, and even Puppet offer up training courses as well, as probably most vendors do. JAMF also offers training courses, where you can be certified in their product. Sometimes they have overlap, like if one of the tools wants to control login hooks, you need to allow that only tool to do so, and disallow all other tools from login hooks (as an example). You can deploy open source tools with your commercial tools pretty well in most cases. Needless to say, they are not mutually exclusive, you can mix and match. With open source tools you must rely on yourself and the open source community. With commercial software you have a line of support, an actual person you can contact regarding your issues/concerns. The thing is with any enterprise set of tools, be the open source route or the commercial product route, there is going to be a period of learning. I am a bit of a consultant in the Bay Area that deals with Linux/Mac exclusively. I have pretty extensive experience with JAMF products, as well as other enterprise tools for the Apple sides of things. If you have any other questions feel free to shoot me a line. I'm hoping to get them migrated to Casper within the next year. ![]() Puppet has a free open source version that is incredibly daunting, and there is a department using that here. There are other tools like puppet and absolute manage that are well regarded (and a somewhat open industry secret is Apple has two companies on their go to list for enterprise services, JAMF and Absolute). I believe we purchase directly through JAMF, but to be honest accounting is handled by accounting and I'm really not sure the specifics.Ĭan I ask what your use case is? JAMF isn't the only folks to look at (though they are the top guys for only Macintosh Management). This was probably a more daunting task not having had the jumpstart but I muddled through. So I started from scratch with a new Casper 9 setup on a Windows 2008 VM, no reason to run it on physical hardware when I don't have to. They had the JAMF Jumpstart here a year before having setup casper on a Mac pro and never did anything more with the solution, having only enrolled a handful of macs. Sort of the same theory, but kace and JAMF defiantly have different design philosophies. Where I was at previously (7 years) I used a Dell/Kace Kbox (1000, and 2000 series boxes). I started here about 8 months ago to administer the Macs. JAMF requires a jumpstart when you purchase the solution from them, however I wasn't at this organization when that occurred. IN most enterprise environments your going to be doing quite a bit of customization, bending, and repackaging. Well, like any administration tool it can be as simple or complex as you desire (or your environment demands). It's not as fancy as stuff like OmniFocus but for me it's a real "Get It Done" sort of app. I also have a little app called TaskPaper. Īpple's SMB services have often been subpar, I use MUCommander frequently. I'm copy and pasting constantly and this makes my life so much easier. I don't know how I would live without iClip. Pref Setter is a quick and dirty plist editor, often it's a little cleaner to see the values in a plist file in this than in a text editor. In the same vein I use Pacifist to see what's in packages, and strip out things for deployment. I use this frequently to repackage software/scripts/etc. Packages is indispensable if you are administering a Macintosh environment. We are a JAMF shop so I'm in their tools daily. I use TextWrangler on a daily basis (I'm sure many would advocate for it's reasonably priced big brother BBEdit). I'm sure there's a lot of extras in Putty that might be of use. Unless there's something else putty does? I always just SSH machines directly from the terminal on my network. I'm not sure what you're trying to do? You don't really need a replacement for putty, you can SSH directly from the terminal. ![]()
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