Apple Remote Desktop 3.1 - Manual (Page 49)

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Organizing Client Computers Into
Computer Lists
Apple Remote Desktop uses lists of client computers to
logically organize the client computers under your control.
Connecting to client computers on the network and adding
them to your list is necessary to administer them.
This chapter describes finding clients and organizing them into lists for Apple Remote
Desktop administration and user interaction. You can learn about:
 “Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop Computer Lists” on page 49
 “Making and Managing Lists” on page 54
 “Importing and Exporting Computer Lists” on page 57
Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop
Computer Lists
Before you can audit, control, or maintain any client, you need to add it to an Apple
Remote Desktop computer list. To use Bonjour to discover computers on your local
subnet, your local network’s routers and firewalls must allow multicast DNS (mDNS)
packets on port 5353. To find computers that aren’t on the local subnet, your local
network’s routers and firewalls must be properly configured to pass network pings, and
TCP/UDP packets on ports 3283 and 5900.
Remote Desktop has five methods for discovering potential clients:
 Discovering clients on the local subnet (using Bonjour instead of network pings)
 Searching the local networks (found through using all available network interfaces)
 Searching a range of IP addresses
 Using a specific IP address or domain name
 Importing a list of IP addresses