A while back I was asked by a colleague if I could automate starting a number of SSH connections based on the current selection in ARD. This may seem pointless given that you can run UNIX commands in ARD but it is not. With SSH you get an interactive shell; quite different from just being able to send commands and receive a sample of the response! MORE »
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I needed to display the ARDAgent version on a Mac the other day without sending anyone (else) in to the command line. Without any remote access I decided a quick Applescript would do the job. It’s very dirty, nothing more than a quick hack really… But it worked. Here’s the code in case you ever need to do the same. MORE »
Apple Remote Desktop is an invaluable tool in the Mac sysadmin world providing functionality above and beyond the likes of VNC. There are however, a few things that we can’t do. For a lot of really geeky work we need an interactive shell via SSH. The problem is ARD only provides a simple Send UNIX command utility that pales in comparison to a fully functional SSH connection.
I made an applescript for a colleague of mine who wanted to be able to SSH a selection of machines in ARD. It’s not too smart as it doesn’t pull usernames or passwords from anywhere but it does speed up opening a connection to a target machine. MORE »
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