By Charles Edge, Zack Smith, Beau Hunter
Charles part, Zack Smith, and Beau Hunter offer specified motives of the expertise required for large-scale Mac OS X deployments and make it easier to combine it with different working structures and purposes. company Mac Administrator's advisor addresses the transforming into measurement and unfold of Mac OS X deployments in organizations and associations all over the world. every now and then, this can be as a result development of conventional Mac environments, yet for the main half it has to do with "switcher" campaigns, the place home windows and/or Linux environments are migrating to Mac OS X. besides the fact that, there's a steep tradition surprise with most of these migrations. the goods which are used are assorted, the nomenclature is diverse, and most significantly the simplest practices for facing the working approach are various. Apple presents a couple of instruments to assist automate and advisor IT towards dealing with numerous Mac OS X computers–it has for the reason that sooner than Mac OS X was once at first published. even if, so as to prepare all the items to inform a compelling tale approximately tips on how to run an IT division or a deployment of Macs, you want to bring together info from a couple of various assets. This e-book will supply causes of the expertise required. offers entire ideas for the big- and medium-scale integration of listing providers, imaging, and safeguard whole consultant for integrating Macs and Mac OS X into combined environments with self assurance and no down time One-stop quantity for IT pros who want the technical info to get their activity performed as successfully and successfully as attainable What you will examine pick out a listing providers version that works on your association and combine it into your latest version pick out an imaging version and start imaging workstations without or with third-party items Leverage scripting thoughts to lessen hard work for the IT division offer community companies (file sharing, cellular domestic folders, messaging, etc.) to the Mac OS X consumers Mass-deploy the iPhone who's this e-book for? approach directors and IT execs who have to deal with a lot of Mac OS X desktops, be they Mac OS X–based servers or workstations. the idea is that readers are just a little acquainted with Mac OS X and/or IT quite often, yet now not that they're conversant in the Apple approach internals, server companies, or deployment ideas.
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4. 5, the tool dscacheutil allows for more cache-specific functionality than lookupd. For example, using -cachedump allows you to dump an overview of the cache contents. The -cachedump command has a slew of flags to get pretty granular with the output, such as -entries and -buckets. The –configuration command allows you to access detailed information about your search policy, and -statistics allows you to view detailed information on the statistics of calls. Com 35 36 CHAPTER 1: Directory Services Here are some examples of using these commands: dscacheutil –flushcache to empty the DNS Cache Resolver; dscacheutil -cachedump -entries user to dump cache with user entries; dscacheutil -q user to look up all users on a system; dscacheutil –q user –a name jdoe to look up data for user jdoe.
Once the ticket has expired, the user must re-authenticate to obtain a new TGT and active service principals. Apple’s implementation of the MIT Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) is krb5kdc. Apple has modified Kerberos to handle communication with the Apple Password Server, which is responsible for building and replicating the Kerberos Database. Com 21 22 CHAPTER 1: Directory Services by the LDAP server. You can manually initiate this auto-configuration by using the kerberosautoconfig command.
NOTE: For the Active Directory guru readers, slapconfig can be thought of as being similar to dcpromo, but with many, many more options, and therefore similar to dcpromo only from the perspective of promoting and destroying a directory server! In addition to promotion, slapconfig can also be used to configure various Open Directory settings, replication, and global password policies. Com CHAPTER 1: Directory Services To create an Open Directory master using the command line, you could simply run the following command: slapconfig -createldapmasterandadmin In the above example, the default values presented in all of the Server Admin screens from the previous section were used.
