Live Update of ARD "Info" Fields ?

Hello I am using a script to update the 4 "info" fields available in ARD like so:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text1 "Foo"
My issue is that the update doesn't get reflected until one of two things happens:
A. I restart ARD using kickstart.
B. Open and Close the "Computer Settings" panel in the Remote Management pane of sharing.
Doing one of these two things every time I update this field is going to be impractical.
Is there an elegant way to nudge ARD into updating the "info" columns like the "Computer Settings" pane is able to do?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Just have a couple thoughts. I've had better luck with using kickstart proper than defaults for changing ard info fields and actually having the agent recognize the change. Also, if you're able to get it to update via kickstart, you could just append that to your script. I routinely send the following via Send UNIX Command as root for at-a-glance access to the serial number:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart -configure -computerinfo -set2 -2 "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/{print $NF}')" && sleep 2 && /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/k ickstart -restart -agent -console ;
The 'sleep 2' was tacked in as sometimes kickstart apparently exits before it's actually done. The consecutive commands are appended using && rather than ; so the agent restart step isn't done unless the -setX -X one succeeds. Also note that if all works as planned, the ARD task never actually finishes as you're interrupting the remote ARD agent mid-stream; just wait for the clients to all return "Starting..." twice and then hit stop on that active task.
In any case, you can change the -set2 -2 to choose an info field, then substitute in your Foo commands in place of "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial Number/{print $NF}')"
Hope that helps some. Let us know how you've made out.
Cheers, Joel

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