Case Study: Los Alamos Uses Puppet to Gain Visibility into Their Deployed Mac OS X Environment
We are happy to make a new case study available from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Allan Marcus, a Solutions Architect, at Los Alamos, walks through how he used Puppet to gain visibility and control of their large deployed Mac OS X environment and meet NIST 800-53 security standards. Among the key benefits that they realized were:
- Enhanced Visibility
- Improved Effeciency
- Adherance to compliance standards
- Accelerated troubleshooting
When speaking about the benefits he realized from using puppet Allan says:
“Prior to using Puppet, managing the Mac OS X systems in our network was a challenge. There was a real lack of visibility into both the number of Macs on the network and their configuration. Puppet has made a real difference to our administrators who were previously having to walk to each Mac and service it individually.”