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Written by Tony Graham
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Thursday, 27 January 2005 |
The ARD Tracker application connects to the ARD database on a local machine and saves its report data to a second database.
About
The Apple Remote Desktop version 2.x stores data it collects via its reporting features in a PostgreSQL database. ARD keeps only the last values for any particular field, no historical data is preserved.
Tools that can access and manipulate a PostgreSQL database can be used to extract data from the primary ARD database and store it safely in a secondary database, preserving historical data. ARD Tracker is an example application that connects to the ARD database on a local machine and saves its report data to a second database. The application is developed with REALbasic, and the secondary database is in REALbasic's standard database format. It queries the PostgreSQL database using standard SQL commands.
Note: in order to gain access to the PostgreSQL database with an external application (like ARD Tracker), the PostgreSQL configuration files need to be modified. Mike Bombich's free "ADAM" tool provides a quick and easy way to do this.
More information is available at:
http://www.bombich.com/software/adam.html
ARD Tracker will display the file sharing value of records in the database, and will add entries to the secondary database (named "myDatabase.rbd") if the value has changed.
Download
To download ARD Tracker, click here.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 January 2005 )
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