Checking status of Remote Management (VNC).

Hi there
We use puppet in our business to manage our Macs as well as other machines.
I'm currently looking at sending a command to force enable VNC on our OS X machines:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart -configure -access -on -privs -all -users administrator,root -activate -restart -agent -console
What I'm having trouble with is checking on the status of VNC - I want to first check that it is disabled before running the kickstart command.
I ended up writing a script which reads every plist file in the following directories:
/Library/Preferences/
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/LaunchAgents/
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/Preferences/
~/Library/LaunchDaemons/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
It outputs the contents to a file. I did this with VNC enabled then with VNC disabled. I then do a diff on the files and nothing shows up relevant to VNC.
Does anyone know how to check if VNC is enabled via command line?
Many thanks,
Luke
Message was edited by: servicefromeveleigh
Apologies I just realised I posted this in the iMac discussions.. Really its just a general OS X query. Not sure how to change that.

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