[UniMacTech] Opinions on Casper Suite

[Chris Lang]

Deej,

I am evaling casper at the moment and have emailed them direct asking for
clarification as this would impact on the way I would want to set it up
here.

Will post something once I get a reply.

Regards,

Chris
Chris Lang
Support Services Advisor
Client Services
Information Technology Services

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On 25/08/08 1:51 PM, "David Wikeley" <David.Wikeley at utas.edu.au> wrote:

> David,
>     Can an institution have more than one Casper server running, with
> different management roles. Our central IT has purchased Casper and have told
> us that only one Casper Server can run within the University. Therefore
> Central IT will not allow us to setup another. Can the Casper client be set to
> look at a particular Casper Server.
> 
> 
> On 25/08/08 1:29 PM, "David Whiteley" <david.whiteley at deakin.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Casper is definitely beyond what ARD can do, as it encompasses everything
>> from imaging to SOE deployment, patching, compliance, auditing, inventory and
>> maintenance, with Windows machines also participating in the
>> auditing/inventorying part. We have been very impressed by the suite. From a
>> small Casper 5.1.3 test playground, I discovered some things about our
>> network and managed SOE of which I was not previously aware.
>> 
>> The imaging portion extends our layering approach (base image with updates,
>> mods, etc applied + SOE app layer + non-SOE app layer) to make the base image
>> itself layered, reducing image build time.
>> 
>> Have so far not experienced any issues with Composer that were not operator
>> error; we have been building software packages manually for years so any
>> templates would be considered gravy rather than SOP. We were particularly
>> impressed by the Adobe CS3 support (both installers and updaters), which
>> allows CS3 apps to be deployed silently, pre-configured and serialized in
>> about 3 clicks, instead of writing install scripts and configuring
>> application.xml.override.
>> 
>> http://jamfsoftware.com/libraries/media_library.php
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>> 
>> David Whiteley
>> Senior Desktop Infrastructure Engineer, Information Technology Services
>> Division
>> 
>> Deakin University Geelong Victoria 3217 Australia
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>> Fax: 03 5227 8866 International: +61 3 5227 8866
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>> 
>> On 22/08/08 1:01 PM, "Mark Szota" <mark.szota at infotech.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I've tried to use Casper Composer for package creation in our student
>>> environment but I'm not a huge fan of it. Seemed buggy under Leopard and
>>> their pre-made 'templates' for packages don't seem to be kept up to date
>>> by themselves or the community of users. Maybe there are newer versions
>>> as I haven't used it for over 6 months.
>>> 
>>> Haven't used the rest of the suite though so I can't comment on that. I
>>> would think most would suggest using Apple Remote Desktop over Casper,
>>> unless there's some extra bits in Casper that ARD doesn't have.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> Carrie Osborne wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi everyone
>>>> >
>>>> > Apparently there are a few Australian uni's using JAMF's Casper Suite
>>>> > to manage their macs. If anyone on this list is using Casper (for
>>>> > staff and or student environments) - what are your opinions and
>>>> > experiences with the product, support, integration, etc?
>>>> >
>>>> > Kind regards,
>>>> > Carrie
>>>> >
>>>> > 
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>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mark Szota
>>> 
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>>> Berwick School of IT
>>> Monash University
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>>> 
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