AppleScript and Apple Remote Desktop

摘要

Ah, back again; into the breach, and this time, we look at two of my favorite tools, AppleScript and Apple Remote Desktop. I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that the day I found out that Apple Remote Desktop is scriptable, was the day that Apple Remote Desktop finally became, in my eyes, a 'real' sysadmin tool. Why? Well, the best sysadmins are lazy. We don't like doing monkeywork, especially repetitive monkeywork; hence our love for scripting. We also realize that the more manual a process is, the more prone to error it becomes. Even if the script is buggy, a script is going to do a task the same way every time. The more we can script repetitive tasks, the more time we have for work that requires a human, and the fewer errors said tasks will have.