Mac and Linux client management

Presentation by Mette I. Heggem, Irene Husa and Kristian Botnen

A brief history

Fedora until 2012, but changes ahead
No centralized mac-management until mid 2013

Why Ubuntu?

softwarecenter accommodate selfservice on software

more, Why Ubuntu?

polkit accommodate selfservice (auth-self) on settings

even more, Why Ubuntu?

long-term-support version available

last one, Why Ubuntu?

it is considered one of the more user-friendly distros available

Macosx brief introduction

not well-suited for mass deployment
vendor driven upgradepath, yearly releases
comes with os preinstalled

Whats in it for the users?

Password are syncronized across all devices on campus

Standard software preinstalled

VPN and Eduroam preconfigured

Preconfiguration of mail, printers +++

more, Whats in it for the user

Support

Access to the wired UiB network

Free upgrade to the newest OS

even more, Whats in it for the user?

Teamviewer allows remote assistance from / to all platforms

Users can install managed software

Future visions

Filevault 2 encrypted machines

Zero-touch installation of new macs

Webgui for managed package installation on macs

Automation is the key

manual work is now automated, which saves time
standardized configuration management, hopefully less error prone
configuration is under versioncontroll, allows faster rollback if needed

we would like our users to spend their time do what they supposed to do, and let the IT-department do IT

Shared infrastructure

Linux and Mac clients deploys from the same infrastructure
Linux and Mac clients use the same configuration code
Linux and Mac clients use the same webgui for classification

Our toolbox

More about our toolbox later today

A brief introduction on puppet, an opensource configmanagement tool
A brief introduction on the foreman, an opensource node classifier