Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual page 41

Predefined deployment tasks (continued)
Table 4-1
Task
Distribute Personality
Erase Disk
Install Linux OS
Install Windows OS
Partition Disk
Prepare for Image capture
Reboot To
Restore BackUp Image
You can also create many other types of tasks that work with Deployment Solution
to add more functionality. For example, you can create the following types of
tasks:
A Run Script task that lets you use a scripting language such as Perl or Python.
The Run Script task supports many scripting languages and predefined tokens.
For more information, search for run script task topics in the Symantec
Management Platform Help.
An inventory task that gathers much more information than the Deployment
Solution reports provide. The inventory tasks are listed in the Symantec
About deployment tasks and jobs
Description
Installs a previously captured computer personality.
See "Distributing user settings"
Cleans a disk. You can configure this task to meet
DoD standards.
See "About wiping a disk"
Performs a scripted OS install of Linux.
See "About scripted OS installations"
Performs a scripted OS install of Windows.
See "About scripted OS installations"
Creates the disk partitions on a hard drive.
See "Partition Disk options"
Runs Microsoft Sysprep.
See "About Sysprep imaging"
See "About preparing to capture a disk image"
on page 57.
Instructs a computer to boot to the production OS,
PXE, or automation folder.
See "Starting computers in different modes"
on page 46.
Deploys the backup image files (not disk image files).
See "Restoring a backup image"
Running tasks and jobs
on page 78.
on page 48.
on page 69.
on page 69.
on page 49.
on page 32.
on page 63.
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