Multicasting Using The Zenworks Imaging Engine Menu; Multicasting Using The Imaging Maintenance Mode Prompt - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - PREBOOT SERVICES AND IMAGING REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 User Manual

To use the Help mode:
Section F.5.1, "Multicasting Using the ZENworks Imaging Engine Menu," on page 231
Section F.5.2, "Multicasting Using the Imaging Maintenance Mode Prompt," on page 231
F.5.1 Multicasting Using the ZENworks Imaging Engine Menu
1 To display the ZENworks Imaging Engine menu, enter:
img
2 Click Imaging > Multicast Session.
This displays the Multicast Wizard.
3 Fill in the fields:
Session Name: Specify a unique name for the session.
Session Role: Select whether this participant is the master or a client.
One of the participants must be the master. It is the master who starts the session.
For Session Master Only: To specify additional options, click the check box for the Specify
Additional Options field to display the Multicast Wizard dialog box containing the options,
then fill in the fields:
Compression Level: Select one. Speed provides the fastest, but least compression and
Size provides the most compression, but more slowly.
Automated Session: To enable the session, click the check box for the Enabled field.
Specify the minimum number of clients to join (the default is 5) or the minimum number
of minutes to transpire (the default is 5), or both, to provide the triggers for starting the
session.
4 Click Next to continue.
The ZENworks Imaging Engine Menu is displayed with the Abort Session option. If you select
this option to abort the multicast session, none of the clients queued for the session can be
multicast-imaged because a master is required for a session to run.
If you enabled the session in
reached, the session begins.
5 If you did not enable the session in
F.5.2 Multicasting Using the Imaging Maintenance Mode
Prompt
Using the imaging maintenance mode prompt, the following example explains the syntax and
available parameters that you can use with the
img -session name -master [-clients=count] [-timeout=minutes] [-throttle=time]
[-comp=comp_level][-retry=seconds]
or
img -session name -client
where the [...] brackets indicate optional commands.
Step 3, then when the number of clients or the timeout value is
Step 3, you can click Start Session to enable it.
mode command:
-session
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