Hi
So I have a new task on my table: Deploy and bootstrap Macs
So far we have installed and configured munki [1] to deploy software. Is
working nice so far.
+ simple to install/use
+ server is just a webserver
- maintaining the software packages and catalog will probably be time
intensive (not specific to munki, general problem)
For imaging and unattended installations DeployStudio [2] seems the way
to go. But haven't used it yet.
A bunch of questions for ya all:
How are you guys managing your macs?
Anybody here know what ID are up to? There once where rumors that they
will have a fancy 'manage the mac tool' sometime real soon now ...
Anybody implemented something like roaming profiles for mobile users?
Quick and painless migration from machine to machine, e.g. when a laptop
died?
Anybody interested in sharing resources, e.g. maintain a munki repo
together? Packaging software is stupid and boring. We could save a lot
of time.
Other thoughts, ideas?
Please forward to your mac guy if he is not you or not on this list ;-)
[1] http://code.google.com/p/munki/
[2] http://www.deploystudio.com/
Cheers,
Steven
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Steven Armstrong
Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich
IT Management & Support
Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 25 24
Good day,
some of you may be aware that the ISG D-INFK is buying a new line of
desktops from Lenovo [0]. But there is also an alternative available
that should be considered and may be interesting for older and younger
people in our group: The Commodore C64 and VIC-Slim running Ubuntu
10.10 [1], [2].
Cheers,
Nico
[0] Lenovo M91p
[1] http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
[2] http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_VICSlim.aspx
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Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-mo…
135-terabyte, 4U server for $7,384
Pitty we are not big enough to design our own hardware ...
oh wait, actually we would be, but ...
Cheers,
Steven
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Steven Armstrong
Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich
IT Management & Support
Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 25 24
