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Right now, I have to to manually search for computers to add to ARD, we have tons of networks, etc and it's a pain. What if apple allowed us to configure the agent to call home or ping the ARD server with it's IP and location, etc. This wouls save a ton of time and making getting all the macs under control alot simpler. What do you guys think?
Mac OS X (10.7.2), Server
Seems to me like it would potentially cause a lot of network traffic with all those systems attempting to find and contact the ARD administrator which may or may not be running since there is no "server" as such (unless you've set up a task server which is not generally the administration workstation) unless you manually were to configure each workstation in advance with the ARD administration station's IP address.
Regards.
I am with cjoh44 on this. LANdesk and many of the other support tools can auto-discover clients without killing a network. It would be great if ARD could do the same.
LANDesk clients, to the best of my knowledge, do not send out traffic looking for servers; the scan and connection is initiated via the LANDesk admin just as with ARD. LANDesk just isn't limited to a specific subnet for discovery, as ARD (a very lightweight tool when it comes to enterprise workstation management) does.
Regards.
searching for new computers vs having the agent call home
