Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual page 40

40 Running tasks and jobs
About deployment tasks and jobs
You must create each task before it appears in your Manage > Jobs and Tasks >
System Jobs and Tasks > Deployment and Migration list.
See "Creating a deployment task"
See "Combining tasks into a job"
See "Scheduling a deployment task"
See "Checking the state of a task"
If a computer does not yet have the Symantec Management Agent or the
Deployment plug-in installed, you can import a predefined computer. Predefined
computers let you assign jobs to unmanaged computers.
See "Assigning jobs to an unmanaged computer"
You can create Client Jobs and Server Jobs in Symantec Management Platform.
These two job types are identical with one exception. Server Jobs guarantee that
the exact same task sequence and execution path is followed for all nodes. For
example, the logic for a job specifies that the job stops if one of the tasks fails.
When that task fails out or times in one node, that job stops for all of the nodes.
Deployment Solution provides the following predefined tasks.
Predefined deployment tasks
Table 4-1
Task
Apply System Configuration
Capture Personality
Copy File
Create Image
Deploy Image
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on page 44.
on page 44.
on page 45.
on page 46.
Description
Applies the new configurations to a computer.
See "Adding new system configuration settings"
on page 65.
Uses PC Transplant to capture a computer s settings
and files (personality).
See "Capturing user settings"
Copies the specified files and folders to a destination
computer.
See "Copy File options"
Creates disk images and backup images.
See "About creating an image"
Deploys the backup image files (not backup image
files).
See "About deploying an image"
on page 76.
on page 47.
on page 59.
on page 61.