r/macsysadmin • u/ExchangeEfficient442 • 11d ago

Mac Mini Fleet

Hello,

I am a server provider who usually provides windows/linux servers to my customers. Lately there has been an uptick in requests for Mac Mini Servers, so I got a bunch. But I am having trouble managing them.

They are constantly going down, freezing, remote access and SSH going down, customers breaking them by changing settings, etc... and I am having to send remote hands in everytime to fix the devices

For people managing large Mac fleets/server farms:

What are you using for:

mass updates

remote command execution

preventing users from breaking remote access

recovery after macOS updates

Best practices for maintaining persistent remote access?

Main priorities are:

reliability

easy recovery

customer flexibility

Would appreciate hearing from anyone operating a fleet of Macs remotely.

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u/mikewinsdaly 11d ago

You’ll need to either find some open source tools (like Fleet DM, munki, Puppet, Chef, Ansible) or a paid MDM server like Jamf to manage these devices the Apple way.