Configuring Computers; Quick Disk Image - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Configuring computers

Quick disk image

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Viewing a computer's history
You can view the history of deployment tasks for a specific computer. Users who do not
have administrative privileges or the permissions to delete a computer's history cannot
access this option.
1. Right-click a computer and click History.
The History of <Computer Name> dialog appears with a list of previous tasks,
including when the task was scheduled, its deployment status and other deployment
information.
2. (Optional) Click Save As to save the file as a .TXT or .LOG file.
3. (Optional) Click Print to print the History file.
4. Click Delete to delete the History file. Click Yes to the confirmation message.
5. Click Close.
See also Remote operations using Deployment Solution
From the Operations menu, you can enter and modify configuration settings for
computers. See Computer configuration properties
information about configuration settings.
1. Right-click a computer and click Configure.
The Computer Configuration Properties dialog appears.
2. Set basic configuration values in the General configuration group (default view).
3. Click other configuration group icons in the left pane to set additional values.
4. Click OK.
See also Remote operations using Deployment Solution
This computer operation creates a disk image of the selected computer. This option is a
quick and easy way to create a disk image of a selected managed computer from the
Deployment Console.
To run a disk image job you must have an automation partition installed on the client
computer, or it is PXE-enabled and can boot to automation by connecting to a PXE
Server.
1. Right-click a computer and click Quick Disk Image.
The Schedule Computers for Job dialog appears. See
page 153.
2. Schedule the job to run immediately or at a later time. You can also click the option
to not schedule the job (this option places the job in the working area and does not
run until you manually drag it to a selected computer and reschedule it).
3. Click OK.
A new job appears in the Jobs pane of the Deployment Console under the System
Jobs > Image Jobs folder. The job name has a generic format of Create Image:
<computer name>.
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