Publisher's Description
From JAMF Software:
The Casper Suite simplifies the life of system administrators with a comprehensive platform to manage Mac OS X computers and iOS mobile devices. The Casper Suite increases the efficiency of your IT staff, reduces the cost of ownership, and minimizes liability by providing a framework that enforces software licensing compliance, security standards, energy usage, and other organizational rules and requirements.
Working with Mac administrators in business, education, and government throughout the world, JAMF Software developers have identified eight major tenets of Mac OS X client management and four major tenets of iOS mobile device management. The Casper Suite provides a comprehensive framework to manage all twelve tenets in a single console.
Mac OS X client lifecycle management
Building on a strong foundation of integration with Apple technologies - including Global Service Exchange (GSX) and Software Update Server (SUS) - and third-party software for Mac OS X, the Casper Suite allows administrators to manage the eight major tenets of Mac OS X client management: Inventory, Imaging, Patch Management, Software Distribution, Remote Control, Settings Management, License Management, and Usage Management.
iOS mobile device management (MDM)
With an unmatched breadth of features, a Self Service console for over-the-air (OTA) distributinon of in-house and app store apps, and integration with Apple's Volume Purchase Plan (VPP), the Casper Suite allows administrators to easily achieve the four major tenets of iOS mobile device management: Inventory, Configuration, Security Management, and App Distribution.
Within these tenets, the Casper Suite offers features and functions that provide IT administrators with best practice strategies to meet the challenges of supporting Mac OS X and iOS in the enterprise, allowing your organization to build and sustain a stable, cost-effective, and user-friendly computing environment.
The Casper Suite is a powerful framework around which your IT ecosystem can be unified and extended to manage both Mac OS X and iOS devices from a single console. Normalize your IT administration with the only client management solution developed exclusively for the Apple platform.
What's new in this version:
- APNs certificate generation. The JSS now allows you to generate an Apple Push Notification (APNs) certificate from the Apple Push Certificate Portal.
- Flat PKGs. Composer now builds PKGs as flat PKGs by default.
- Improvements to the JSS Database Utility. The JSS Database Utility can now manage settings for MySQL and Apache Tomcat.
- Integration with Apple's updated GSX service. The JSS is now compatible with Apple's updated Global Service Exchange (GSX) API. See all new features
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"Great product, especially for schools"
Version: Casper Suite 6.0
Pros
does exactly what they say it does, great customer service, new version is a huge improvement and they say another verison is on the way with even more improvements.
Cons
cost is the biggest con. If they could keep the cost down we would have gotten it sooner.
Summary
If you need to manage more than 10 macs, get this suite, it is a Great Product.
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"Zenworks for OSX"
Version: Casper Suite 3.2
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Finally OSX has a affordable network management tool for imaging, inventory, script deployment and OS customizing and monitoring. Open sources solutions are great and free but nothing beats a well developed software package that you can't afford not to have. Great job guys. Keep up the great work. Thank you for supporting educational institutions. -
"Great product for inventory, software distribution..."
Version: Casper Suite 3.2
Summary
...and remote access
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This product contains a set up sub parts that all work together to create a great product.
Recon: Allows you to inventory both PC's as well as Mac's including hardware and software information.
Casper: Allows you to create "packages" of software to remotely install on Macintosh computers. The latest version of Adobe, no more running around adding the software to each system, it all happens remotely. It even modifies your dock or adds printers.
Casper VNC: A VNC client used to remotely acces the Mac computers.
In previous versions documentation was sorely missed, which has been rectified with the latest revision of the software. After the initial learning curve the application is easy to use and works great for 5 or 500 computers in one or multiple locations.
The product is very resonably priced compared to other products doing similar tasks. Also the company has an active user group which provides feedback and the company is very responsive to suggestion from it to implement improvements and additional features.
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