Restoring A Computer From Its Deployment History - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Restoring a computer from its deployment history

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New Job Wizard Open this to build, assign, and schedule deployment jobs for the
selected computer. See
New Group Click to create a new computer group in the Computers pane.
New Computer Create a new computer account. See
page 98.
Rename Assign the computer or group a new name in the console. Right-
click a computer or group to edit in the Computer pane.
Delete Delete a computer, a computer group, or any combination of
computers and groups from the database.
Change Agent Update property settings for the Deployment Agent running on
Settings selected computer(s). See
Permissions View security settings for the selected computer(s).
Job Scheduling Open this to assign deployment jobs to the selected computer.
Wizard
Properties View computer configuration and network properties. See
Computer properties
Occasionally, it is necessary to restore a computer to its original settings based on
operations or deployment jobs previously executed on the computer. A computer's past
deployment history appears in the Restore Computer dialog, where you can restore a
computer by selecting the tasks from its history file. You can rerun the deployment tasks
to restore the computer.
Restore a computer by right-clicking a computer icon in the Computers
pane and selecting Restore, clicking Operations > Restore Computer
on the menu bar, or clicking this icon in the toolbar. You can restore a
computer using Remote Operations Using Deployment Solution or by
creating and scheduling a job using the New Job Wizard. See
operations using Deployment Solution
page 146.
1. Right-click a computer and click Restore.
The Restore Computer dialog appears with a list of previous tasks with check
boxes.
2. (Optional) Select the type of tasks to be displayed from the Show only drop-down
list. Select the date from the Since list box to filter tasks.
3. Click Next to view a summary of tasks selected to reschedule.
4. Click Next to schedule the job. See
5. Click Finish.
When you finish this computer operation, a new job appears in the Jobs pane of the
Deployment Console under the System Jobs > Restoration Jobs folder. The job name
has a generic format of Restore: <computer name>.
New job wizard on page 146.
Adding new computers
Deployment agents
on page 119.
on page 122 and
Scheduling jobs on page 153.
on
on page 109.
Remote
New job wizard on
124