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Configuring Deployment Solution settings
About configuring a PXE server
About configuring a PXE server
About initial deployment
Configuring the initial deployment settings
You can configure the PXE server that was automatically installed when you
installed Deployment Solution.
See
"About PXE"
on page 24.
You can install multiple PXE servers by installing and configuring the site server
components on a computer that is running Site Services. For more information,
search for site server topics in the Symantec Management Platform Help.
You can select the PXE boot image to use and choose to respond to unknown
computers while configuring your PXE server. You can set the threshold on the
number of computers that receive the automation simultaneously by marking the
Limit client connections option. You can also set the amount of bandwidth to use
during the PXE process by marking the Limit bandwidth option.
See
"Configuring deployment and migration settings"
Initial deployment specifies what jobs or tasks run when an unmanaged computer
performs a PXE boot.
See
"Configuring the initial deployment settings"
The unmanaged computer boots from a network card and asks for a PXE server.
The PXE server hears this request and compares the computer against its list of
known computers. After the server determines that the computer is unknown it
sends a preboot operating system to the computer. This operating system is the
same system that you configured in the PXE Server Configuration option.
After the unknown computer receives the preboot PXE image, the preboot
PECTAgent runs and requests a task server. Because the computer is unknown,
it receives an initial deployment menu that contains a preconfigured job or task.
According to the set schedule, this job or task then runs.
See
"Configuring deployment and migration settings"
You can create an ISO image that contains the initial deployment settings that
you specify. Your ISO image can then be used to start new computers. The boot
image contains the tasks that you want in the initial deployment menu of the new
computer. It also specifies how long those tasks display on the new computer.
See
"About initial deployment"
on page 36.
on page 36.
on page 29.
on page 29.
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