Using casper for MSP, distribution points

You're correct that Casper Admin only deals with a primary distribution
On 7/1/11 1:57 PM, "Jon Jopse" <JJopse at CORNETSER.com> wrote:
point. Consider this your "master" repository.

You can use the JSS Setup Utility to define synchronization between your
master and secondary repositories. It will use rsync, I believe, and both
servers must support that application. Packages and scripts added to your
master will sync to the secondaries.

If you're wanting to only partially sync your master and secondary
repositories then I'm afraid you're out of luck. If only certain
repositories need certain files and scripts then you must copy those
manually.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

We have Distribution Points on Xserve as well as NAS devices. We can't risk relying on the groups that manage/support the later, so we do manual sync. This way we have complete control, and this way there is less of a chance of hiccups. The only glitches, we need to have an admin workstation set up with Casper Admin in each geographical location, since there are latency issues that prevent us from syncing all the geographically dispersed Distribution Points from one location. It's a bit of extra work, but much less work than having to recreate our AAMEE packages that tend to "break" when relying on rsync automatic syncing.
"Smith, William" <William.Smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:

It would be great if JAMF could provide a robo-copy like solution for our NAS devices. :)

Don

In our case we don't need or want to have all packages synced from our
On 7/2/11 2:21 PM, "Don Montalvo" <donmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote:
primary distribution point to each of our dozen secondary distribution
points across the WAN.

I'd like to see a feature to add a package to Casper Admin and then copy
it immediately to the distribution points of my choice.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492