Now that you're familiar with the basics of the Apple remote desktop interface, let's talk about getting
some clients into the console.
We do this using the scanner.
Click on the scanner on the left, you have a drop down menu here with various different ways that you
can scan for clients.
By default, Bonjour and local network probably are going to be the easiest ones for most people to
use because it scans on the same subnet as this workstation is right now.
So in a small business or in a home network where there's probably not a bunch of segmented IP address
subnets, you likely will have the your computer that you're administrating with on the same network
as all of your other clients.
However, if you're in a larger company or a larger enterprise business where you have multiple subnets,
you may actually have to choose a network range.
You may even have to enter multiple ranges to be able to find all the clients on your network.
So, for example, here, I can cross these out here and I'll just put in and say I've got another network
segment where I have some clients that they're outside of what IP address range my currently is sitting
in.
So maybe it's ten to one to two hundred one.
To two hundred, up to five for let's say I can scan that range and see if there's any match.
Now, I actually don't have that on my network, so I'm not going to show me any of these IP or any
of these Macs with this IP range.
But you get the idea.
You can also specify a network address if you know the specific IP address of the one client you're
trying to add.
You can enter it here.
You also have the option to do it via a shortcut down here at by address.
So for our purposes, because I'm on a small network, I'm just going to choose local network and let
it scan.
And as you can see, it's doing a little wagon wheel here and it's scanning and it's finding different
devices.
And you can see that sometimes it does find my max, of course, but it also finds other devices that
are on my network, but may not actually be a Mac.
May not actually be able to be used with remote desktop.
For example, a couple of my Apple TVs are listed here as well as my router.
We'll go ahead and stop the scan because we found the machines that we were looking for, which is my
Mac Pro and you Demis MacBook Pro.
So I'm going to go ahead and add these.
All I have to do is just click and drag and you can also have multiples if you want to do them.
At the same time, you can add multiple machines.
So I'm going to do them one at a time so you'll do a click and drag into all computers.
And it asked me for my username and password or pre populated this local password.
I'm going to go ahead and add.
Now you can see that it's actually additive because I have a little blue dot there.
So let's go ahead and add the other one.
Drag and drop.
The computers actually have a different username and password for this one.
So I'll go ahead and enter that now.
And I also show you here, if for some reason you don't know the password right now, but you want to
add it anyways, you can still uncheck this verify username password before adding inital at it.
But the problem, you'll have the time you go to interact with it, you'll still have to authenticate
to it.
So it just basically prolongs the inevitable.
So I like to go ahead and authenticate at the time that I add.
All right, now that I've added those clients, you can see I've got blue dots on each of them and also
go over here to all computers and I can see them listed here as well.
So it gives me some information here, gives me their current IP addresses, shows me the current applications
are running and it shows me the users that are logged in.
And it shows me what version of Mac OS are running Mac OS version.
And the Apple remote desktop version are tied together because you actually have the client built into
the operating system.
So while I've got these in this all computers group, I'm going to break these out.
I'm actually going to move you Demis MacBook Pro in the lab.
One hundred and I'm going to leave my Mac Pro basically just here by itself.
So I'm not going to interact with it very much.
So I'm going to keep it here in case I need to get to it.
But where I want to focus, most of my attention is going to be in my main building and in this computer
list here.
Let's say I want to briefly touch on is how to modify these columns in your lists.
So select the lists that you want to modify, which in this case is why one hundred?
Go to view choose view options.
And then you're given this little window here and you'll see this is lab one hundred here, and then
you can check or uncheck the various columns you want to see.
So by default, I've got my version, I've got current application, current status, name, OS version,
IP address, and that's a pretty good set for whatever reason.
I may want my DNS name in here or I may want a computer, one of these computer info fields.
And if you can remember from earlier, we talked a little bit about these custom fields and I had used
my computer asset tag, the label that was stuck on my machine as one of my custom fields.
So you can see when I check that I have that added here as well.
I can also remove some of these if I really don't care what version of a card they're running.
I don't really care about what operating system they're running.
I can modify that as well.
I'll turn those back on because I do care to close those out.
And then you can also, like any other application, rearrange these columns so that they make the most
amount of sense.
So if you're most concerned about, say, what application they're currently running and if the use
what users logged in and the current status of that machine, you can do that.
And then, of course, you can also click on this to sort them alphabetically by name or by any of these
other IP address would be numerically.
So you have the option.
Click on these and restart them as well.
If you have multiple machines in your list.
Now that we have some machines in our console and we've arranged the console into some different lists
and groups, we're ready to start interacting with these machines, which we'll do next.