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Radmind in a Day v1.0
For Mac OS X v10.4 (Client/Server)

Setup an ongoing maintenance infrastructure for your Mac OS X workstations.

Course Description

This one day Radmind Client/Server course is designed for system administrators and IT professionals who need to gain specific knowledge about Radmind 1.0 running under Mac OS X v10.4, how to effectively configure Mac OS X computers to access a Radmind server, and how to configure a Radmind server under Mac OS X. This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on case study exercises that provide practical real-world experience. Each student will be equipped with two Mac OS X capable computers and a private network for setting up and testing Radmind.

Who should attend?

This class is for administrators who are tasked with configuring and maintaining computers running Mac OS X

Prerequisites

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending this course:

Completion of Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4 and Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.4, or equivalent knowledge
Understanding of basic IP networking, including IP adress, subnet masks, ports, and protocols
Working familiarity with the command line interface

What You Will Learn:
•	How to configure Mac OS X to update itself with services provided by a Mac OS X based Radmind server
•	How to add or remove OS updates or applications to Mac OS X machines using Radmind Assistant
•	Best practices for automating Radmind using LoginHook and scripts
•	How to troubleshoot common problems with radmind implementations
•	How to manage a radmind server using Transcript Editor, Radmind Server Manager and the Terminal

Course Outline

Topic	Description
Chapter 1 Understanding Radmind	Understanding the suite of software programs that make up Radmind

Chapter 2 Setting up the Radmind Server	Configuration and setup of Mac OS X to act as a Radmind Server.

Chapter 3 Setting up the base machine and Radmind on the client.	Configuring Mac OS X computers to access a Radmind server provided by Mac OS X.

Chapter 4 Negative Transcripts and uploading the base load.	Preparing your client machine for radmind and creation of the base load.

Chapter 5 Creating an update loadset	Understanding how to configure Radmind Assistant to create a loadset that will update the base load.

Chapter 6 Creating a loadset without using fsdiff	Understand how to create a loadset using only Transcript Editor and Radmind Assistant

Chapter 7 Troubleshooting common problems with radmind	Discussion and exercises for troubleshooting common problems with radmind including upload failure and transcript errors.

Chapter 8 Testing the loadsets	Trigger radmind using the radmind user and loginhook. Change the command file and re-run radmind to remove loadsets.

Chapter 9 References on the web	Finding help with Radmind on the web.