Apple Remote Desktop Client has been displaying “Current Status = Offline” for machines without cause. When a mac is “Offline”, ARD, AFP, SMB, and SSH are stop working. However, the
mac can still be pinged and its web server is still accessible.

Apple Remote Desktop Client is crashing and causing the issues. I don’t understand why SSH and SMB stop working when this happens, any comments would be appreciated.

I’m posting the AppleScript that I wrote to resolve the issue. A restart is not required, but resolved network issues outside of ARD for me. Please comment if this works, doesn’t work or needs to be updated in any way.

on doShellScript(cmd, pswd)
    if (length of pswd > 0) then
        display dialog pswd
        do shell script cmd password pswd with administrator privileges
    else
        display dialog "This process requires an admin password."
        requestInput()
    end if
end doShellScript

on restartNow()
    tell application "Finder"
        restart
    end tell
end restartNow

on requestInput()
    set admin_password to display dialog ¬
        "Please enter your password:" with title ¬
        "Password" with icon caution ¬
        default answer ¬
        "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 ¬
        giving up after 295 ¬
        with hidden answer
    set pswd to text of text returned of admin_password
    
    set cmds to {¬
        "ls", ¬
        "sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -stop", ¬
        "sudo rm -R /Library/Application\\ Support/Apple/Remote\\ Desktop/Client", ¬
        "sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -restart"}
    
    doShellScript(item 1 of cmds, pswd)
    doShellScript(item 2 of cmds, pswd)
    doShellScript(item 3 of cmds, pswd)
    requestRestart()
end requestInput

on requestRestart()
    set restartAnswer to display dialog ¬
        "Would you like to restart now?" with title ¬
        "Restart" with icon caution ¬
        buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 ¬
        giving up after 295
    
    set answer to text of button returned of restartAnswer
    
    if (answer is equal to "OK") then
        restartNow()
    end if
end requestRestart

requestInput()