Hosted Munki
We work with Google App Engine to bring you Simian as a hosted managed service for your Mac fleet.
Simian is an Enterprise-Class Mac OS X software deployment solution hosted on Google App Engine. It scales to any enterprise fleet size automatically, and offers a future proof client extended from the active Munki open-source project. Because the Simian server is live code, not a static file server, it offers unique benefits over a typical Munki+Apache deployment.
In summary, Simian's feature set allows it to:
- Deploy new or updated software by targeting a single Mac or tens of thousands.
- Deploy updates whether the Mac is on an internal network/VPN or not.
- Force unattended/background installation of some packages, while allowing others to be optional.
- Forcefully deploy security patches and reboot Macs after a given date, with varying levels of warning notifications.
- Tightly manage Apple Software Update catalogs and update release, or let updates auto-promote automatically.
- Dynamically target clients based on user, hostname, os version, group (tag), and more.
- Obtain reports on all of this and the fleet overall.
We do not sell Munki. We sell our time managing your Munki instance running on Google App Engine as a service. We spend up to 4 hours daily maintaining and managing updates, scripts, and profiles to keep your companies computers running safely.
