Apple iPad

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Will the OS X agent work on an Apple iPad? If not, is there or will there be iPad support at some point? Or could the OS X agent be adapted for iPads?

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

No, unfortunately, there are no agents for iPads and iPhones right now.

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

While iOS – the OS for iPhone and iPad – has some similarity under the covers to OS X they are really very different when it comes to running an agent on them. To over simplify: you can’t “get root” on iOS as we do with our agent on OS X. Apple has encouraged systems management vendors to go ahead and use their existing development infrastructure, but the APIs available to us from that route to not provide us all of the tools we need to make our enterprise customers happy.

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(imported comment written by mcalvi91)

how about the web reports since it uses flash. is there support for tbe web reports on an i* device?

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(imported comment written by undertake91)

Noah

While iOS – the OS for iPhone and iPad -has some similarity under the covers to OS X they are really very different when it comes to running an agent on them. To over simplify: you can’t “get root” on iOS as we do with our agent on OS X. Apple has encouraged systems management vendors to go ahead and use their existing development infrastructure, but the APIs available to us from that route to not provide us all of the tools we need to make our enterprise customers happy.

If not, is there or will there be iPad support at some point? Or could the OS X agent be adapted for iPads?

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(imported comment written by StacyLee)

mcalvi

how about the web reports since it uses flash. is there support for tbe web reports on an i* device?

I would like to see this too. +1

iphone and soon to be ipad2 user. I was thinking about getting a xoon for the flash for bigfix, but in the end i decided to get an ipad2.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Not to detract, but my wifes Nook Color works very well. For $250, it may be an option worth looking into.