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Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
5.
Click Add again to configure another set of property settings. You can add multiple
configuration sets for the user to select from a menu after connecting to
Deployment Server. You can modify, rename, or delete a selected configuration set.
6.
After setting the properties, click Apply.
7.
From the Default Menu choice drop-down list, select a configuration set as the
default.
8.
Click the Timeout after ___ seconds and proceed check box and specify the
time after which you want to run the default job.
9.
Click OK, or click the Jobs tab to define a task.
Advanced Configuration
Click Advanced on the Configurations tab to open the Advanced Configuration
dialog. This dialog lets you set advanced configuration settings for client computers and
provides different options for processing jobs for client computers.
Select Process this job as each client becomes active. This job is processed
only when clients become active.
Select Process this job in batch mode. This job is processed for a batch of clients
for the Minimum clients specified and after the specified Timeout in minutes.
Select Hold all clients until this time. You can specify the Start time for this
job, which runs for all clients at the specified time.
Click OK.
Click the Jobs tab on the Initial Deployment dialog to add existing jobs or create new
jobs to run on the new computer. The jobs you add or build using this dialog are listed in
a menu and presented to the user during startup. The user can select the deployment
jobs to image the computer and install applications and personality settings. Compare
the Jobs tab with the Configurations tab. (See
conditions on the jobs are limited to the data that can be accessed at the DOS level
(Example: Serial number, manufacturing number, NIC information, manufacturing
name).
1.
Click Initial Deployment in the Jobs pane drop-down list. The Properties of
Initial Deployment dialog appears.
2.
Click the Jobs tab.
3.
Click New to build a new job. The Select a job dialog appears. See
jobs
on page 150. Select a folder in which you want to create the job. Click OK. The
Job Properties dialog appears.
4.
Click Add Existing to add an existing job.
5.
From the Default menu choice drop-down list, select a job as the default.
6.
Click the Timeout after ___ seconds and proceed check box and specify the
time after which you want to run the default job. The default setting is 60 seconds.
7.
Click OK, or click the Advanced tab to stop servers or workstations from running
configuration task sets and jobs automatically.
See also
Sample jobs
on page 196.
Configurations
on page 198.) The
Building new
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