Asset management – Apple Remote Desktop 3 User Manual

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Technology Overview
Apple Remote Desktop 3

Asset Management

Spotlight search

• Search a remote computer, its startup disk, or a specific folder, qualified using one

or more of these metadata keywords: Kind, Last Opened, Last Modified, Created,
Keywords, Color, Label, Name, Contents, and Size—and filtered for specific text.
Results can be copied back to the administrator computer, opened on remote
computers, or deleted.

Reports

• User History:

Who has logged in to a computer, how and where they accessed it,

and when they logged in and out

• Application Usage: Which applications have been used on remote systems, the

number of launches of an application, duration of the launch, and who executed
the launch

• File Search: Search for files on a group of Mac OS X computers using name, parent

path, full path, extension, date modified, date created, actual size, size on disk, kind,
visibility, version number, version string, owner, group, permissions, and lock status
file attributes

• Software Version: Select up to 10 applications and compare versions installed on

administrator computer with a group of Mac OS X computers

• Software Diﬀerence: Compare applications, fonts, and installed packages on

administrator computer with a group of Mac OS X computers

• System Overview:

– Computer: Active Processors, Available User Memory, Boot ROM, Bus Clock Speed,

Bus Data Size, CPU Speed, Serial Number, Vector Processor, L2 Cache Size, L3 Cache
Size, Machine Model, Memory, Empty RAM Slots, PCI Slots Used, Processor Count,
CPU Type, Sales Order Number, VM Size, Total RAM Slots

– Software: Kernel Version, System Version
– Storage: Free Disk Space, Total Disk Space, Trash Size
– AirPort: AirPort Active, AirPort Firmware Version, AirPort Hardware Address, AirPort

Locale, AirPort Type, AirPort Installed, AirPort Network Channel, AirPort Network in
Range, Computer to Computer, AirPort Network Name

– Modem: Modem Country, Modem Driver, Modem Firmware Version, Modem

Installed, Modem Interface, Modem Model

– Network: First Ethernet Address, NetBoot Status, Primary IP Address, Primary Network

Collisions, Primary Network Flags, Primary Network Hardware Address, Primary
Network Input Errors, Primary Network Input Packets, Primary Network Output
Errors, Primary Network Output Packets, Primary Network

– Display: Monitor Depth, Monitor Resolution, Monitor Type, 2nd Monitor Depth,

2nd Monitor Resolution, 2nd Monitor Type

– Devices: ATA Device Count, FireWire Device Count, Keyboard Connected, Mouse

Connected, Optical Drive Type, SCSI Device Count, USB Device Count

– AppleTalk: AppleTalk Active, AppleTalk Network, AppleTalk Node, AppleTalk Zone
– Sharing: Computer Name, File Sharing, FTP Access, Remote Apple Events, Remote

– Preferences: Sleep Display, Sleep Hard Disk, Sleep Computer, Wake for

Ethernet Access

– Printing: Printer Name, Printer Sharing, Printer Type, Printer Version
– Remote Desktop: Computer Info #1, Computer Info #2, Computer Info #3,

Computer Info #4

– Lights Out Management: LOM Active, LOM Channel, LOM IPv4 Configuration,

LOM IPv4 Address, LOM Subnet Mask, LOM Gateway, LOM Ethernet ID