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# Setting Up an Admin Console to Query the Task Server

After setting up a Task Server, you can use another computer to administer it. You'll need to install and configure a second licensed copy of Remote Desktop on the administrative computer.

Although you'll use an administrative computer to query the Task Server, you should back up report data on the Task Server, not the administrative computer.

1. Install Remote Desktop on the administrative computer, using the installation CD and the second Unlimited Managed Systems license.
2. After the installer finishes, launch Remote Desktop and configure it using Setup Assistant.
   1. During the setup process, Setup Assistant asks if you're going to use another computer as a Task Server. Indicate that you are going to use a different Task Server by selecting "Use remote Task Server" and entering the fully qualified domain name (or IP address) of the Task Server.
   2. Later in the setup process, choose what report data to upload and set up a preliminary automatic scheduled upload for clients.
3. Use Remote Desktop to verify that it finds the client computers, and then add them to a list.

   Select a scanner and scan the network range of your client computers. You should see all the client computers you expect to see. Add them to a list. For information, see Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop Computer Lists.

See also:

- Setting Up the Task Server
- Setting Up Clients to Interface with the Task Server