Housekeeping – Apple Remote Desktop User Manual
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Chapter 1
Using Apple Remote Desktop
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Housekeeping
ARD provides several ways to remotely control client computers for housekeeping
activities, which you can conduct using one or more ARD windows.
Managing Power Settings
Use ARD to manage the power settings of client computers.
For example, you may need to have all computers turned off during maintenance of a
power generation unit or during a holiday shutdown. You could send an ARD text
message reminding users to shut down their computers at a particular time. Any
computers still running when you need to start maintenance can be detected and shut
down remotely with ARD.
Xserve cluster node
Marketing department
Engineering department
Administrator
computer
Execute UNIX
shell script
Restart/
shutdown/sleep
Remote screen
control
Empty
Trash
Set startup
partition
Send text
notification
Mac OS X
Server
NetBoot
images