Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs

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C. Edge, R. TroutonApple Device Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9156-6_2

2. Agent-Based Management

Charles Edge¹   and Rich Trouton²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

Middletown, MD, USA

 

This chapter is about agents that can run on a Mac. Agents are services, or programs, that run on devices. These agents are specifically designed to give a systems administrator command and control over a Mac and are usually agents that start a listener on the Mac or tell the Mac to log in to a server and pull down management tasks from that server on a routine basis. These give administrators the ability to control various aspects of computers from a centralized server. ...