Radmind

Radmind
Developer(s) Research Systems Unix Group at the University of Michigan
Stable release 1.14.1 / December 13, 2010
Operating system UNIX, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows
Type Security (tripwire), file management
Website At U. Mich, at GitHub, at Sourceforge

Radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and an application server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple client machines.[1][2]

For Mac OS X, there is a graphical user interface called Radmind Assistant, as well as a GUI for the Radmind server called Radmind Server Manager.[3]

Radmind was the 2003 Apple Design Awards runner-up for Best Mac OS X Server Solution.[4]

How Radmind Works

Radmind operates as a tripwire, detecting changes in a client's filesystem (and, in the case of Microsoft Windows, the registry) and reversing the changes.[5][6][7] Radmind stores filesystem specifications in text files called transcripts, signified with a .T extension. Transcripts are referenced from command files, signified with a .K extension, which specify which transcripts (and with what precedence) should be applied to a client machine's filesystem.

Suite of tools

The radmind suite of tools comprises

Radmind is developed by the Research Systems Unix Group at the University of Michigan.

References

  1. Kevin M. White (16 April 2010). Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.5. Pearson Education. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-13-208942-5.
  2. Schoun Regan editor; David Pugh editor (5 June 2006). Apple Training Series: Mac OS X 10.4 System Administration Reference. Pearson Education. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-13-279791-7.
  3. Michael Bartosh; Ryan Faas (24 May 2005). Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration: Integrating Mac OS X Server into Heterogeneous Networks. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-0-596-55060-8.
  4. "WWDC: Apple announces Design Awards". MacWorld. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  5. Noah Gift; Jeremy Jones (8 December 2008). Python for Unix and Linux System Administration. O'Reilly Germany. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-596-51582-9.
  6. Edward Marczak; Greg Neagle (18 August 2010). Enterprise Mac Managed Preferences. Apress. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4302-2937-7.
  7. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (29 January 2014). The State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection. CRC Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4822-0351-6.

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