Apple Remote Desktop
Apple Remote Desktop (www.apple.com/remotedesktop) is a remote adminstration tool for Mac clients and servers. You can use this tool to manage any Mac with Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later, including Lion Server. You can use this tool to distribute, install, and upgrade software on hundreds of Macs at the same time.
You use Apple Remote Desktop to generate reports about what applications are being used, what versions of Mac OS X are installed, and who is logging into the computers. Apple Remote Desktop is also a remote-control program that lets you see and control what's going on with any Mac from your Mac. You can use this feature to give tech support to a user or fix a problem remotely. You can also perform remote Spotlight searches on the other Macs. You can even copy any files you find to your Mac or delete them.
You have to set up each Mac that you're going to administer with Apple Remote Desktop. But you can partly automate that procedure with Apple Remote Desktop itself.
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