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About the Integration of Mac OS X Devices into a Centrally Managed UNIX Environment
The UNIX flavors in use today have so much in common that centralized management of UNIX systems has become almost standard. Since Mac OS X is based on BSD-UNIX it is a promising candidate for integration into a centrally managed UNIX environment.
Starting from generic administration concepts, this paper develops an integrated management concept that handles fully automated installation and configuration of hosts. The concept includes a centralized application management system for console and graphical Mac OS X app
The management concept is then implemented based exclusively on standard UNIX tools. The necessary extensions of these tools to make Mac OS X conform to UNIX standards are presented, including a proxy tool to forward AppleEvents which facilitate the interprocess communication for centrally managed graphical Mac OS X applications.
author = {Anton Schultschik},
title = {About the Integration of Mac {OS} X Devices into a Centrally Managed {UNIX} Environment},
booktitle = {19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 05)},
year = {2005},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-05/about-integration-mac-os-x-devices-centrally-managed-unix-environment},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
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