For any client or SysAdmin workstation, you simply need a version of Microsoft ™ Windows ™, such as NT4,2000,XP,2003,Vista. If your computers meet the requirements to run the OS, then you”ll have no problem running Pusher. Pusher only requires 150k after installation. Of course, if you create a bunch of target lists, those will take space, albeit minimal… Read More »
This is the story of how 3 lab environments were rendered inoperable with a click of a mouse button. Well, there was some configuration involved, but it was completed with a single click.
Pusher is now freely available. This free software is a method of distributing and installing software on remote Windows computers. It can do this within a minute or so, or you can schedule it for a later date or time. It also does inventory of installed applications on targeted computers. Oh yeah, it’s also agentless.
The first thing that you”ll have to do when running Pusher for the first time, is to build a list of targets. Targets are the machines that that you want to push software to or perform an inventory on. Basically, if you want to perform an action, you need to let Pusher know what you want to perform… Read More »
Pusher works with the Task Scheduler service installed by default on all Windows NT-class workstations and servers. This is how Pusher can schedule the delayed execution of programs and scripts.
Now that you have created a Target List, you can load that Target List from the main screen.
After loading targets, simply click the Inventory Targets button. Inventory will be performed, and the results stored for later viewing. Any errors encountered will be logged and will also be viewable in the status (“Thought Processes”) at the bottom of the main window.
The options dialog is very straightforward, and only contains a few of options that are user configurable.
A package is the software package that you want deployed to the remote workstations. The package can be any of the following types of files:
The push is a pretty in depth process. There are several checks taken before the file is actually scheduled to execute on the target machine. Here is what happens when you click the “Begin Push” button in the main window: