Hi,
I've been looking at powershell to fill the role here and while the roadmap promises some unification, mouse driven automation with the clunky and limited scripting and the VSA WS api kaseya currently provides leave s a lot to be desired exposes littlle in the way of the abilty for moves/adds and changes.

as an MSP all of our clients have established segmented networks in RFC 1918 non-routable IP networks.

"fan out" scripting from a single remote point in that environment currently requires either direct login to a client network or site to site vpn but this is often not possible because of common IP address ranges

2nd hop scripting using WinRM is also an option here as well as (theoretically) RDP with using the alternateshell directive
/n software alsom offers this with their ssh solution

My belief is that Kaseya scripting has a huge opportunity to complement and leverage existing technologies rather than compete with them.

the 2009 road map intends AD unification to present a single view od distinct unrelated AD domains(forests?) to manage them as one groups, established them and subgroups as distinct OU's

unification of data presentati0n and web driven batch action is a step forward, unification of system *addressability* name resolution/mapping with common tools via a interactive shell seems to be a feature in many threads that admins would find useful.

Powershell finally provides an opportunity to do this given the technological building blocks are now available in WinRM, ssh and pipeline object serialization over secure channels

if kaseya licenced/acquired and developed a posh object/pipeline serialzation broker in the VSa which offered addressability via group.agentname for powershell they and their clients could build a truly rich and flexible product

comments?

Bob Blanchett
System Administrator ORbnet PL
Melbourne, Australia.

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