About Deployment Site Server Components; About Pxe - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual

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About Deployment site server components

About Deployment site server components

About PXE

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The site server components in Deployment Solution let you offload some of the
traffic and workload from your primary Notification Server. You can set up
multiple site servers, task servers, and Deployment site servers to handle your
jobs and tasks. Symantec Management Agent then uses their assigned Deployment
site server for all deployment processes. These processes include imaging, disk
partitioning, and tasks that are associated with Personality Packages.
See "Installing Deployment site server components"
The Deployment site server components can be installed on the site servers that
are configured with both Package Services and Task Services. For more
information, search for task server topics in the Symantec Management Platform
Help.
The components include the task handlers that are added to the Task Service.
The handlers let the Site Service forward deployment tasks to an assigned
computer. The components also include all of the tools that Deployment Solution
needs. These tools include RapidDeploy, Ghost, and Boot Disk Creator.
See "Components of Deployment Solution"
The Deployment site server that is assigned to each computer also includes a
Deployment share. Any files that need to be downloaded or written by Deployment
Solution processes are stored in that Deployment share. Deployment Solution
never tries to read or write a file on any other Notification Server or site server.
If the file to be downloaded does not exist, the Deployment task fails. If you attempt
to write a file that cannot be created on the share, that task also fails.
The site server components also include the PXE service.
See "About PXE" on page 24.
Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) is an environment that you can use to boot
computers using a network interface. This process is independent of your hard
disks or installed operating systems.
Deployment site server components include PXE. You cannot uninstall PXE from
a computer without uninstalling all of the deployment components.
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