Managing Server Blades; Managing New Server Blades - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
Clear BootWorks prompt for remote Iistall
When you run a deployment job on a computer where the Deployment Agent is remotely
installed, a message appears stating that no BootWorks partition or PXE stamp is found.
The message remains open until the user clicks OK on the message dialog, which delays
executing the scheduled job as part of an automated redeployment process. To fix this
delay:
1. Select Tools > Options. The Program Options dialog appears.
2. Select the Agent Settings tab.
3. In the Automation Agent Settings section, select the Force new Automation agents
to take these settings check box and click Change Default Settings.
4. Click OK.
Following these steps, ensures that the BootWorks message does not appear and a job
runs smoothly when scheduled.

Managing server blades

Deployment Solution lets you manage high-density server blades with Rack/Enclosure/
Bay (R/E/B) hardware and properties. From the Deployment Console, you can deploy
and manage these space-efficient server blades using the physical view to assign jobs
to the Rack, Enclosure, or Bay level of the server cluster, or you can manage each
server blade directly from the logical view.
See Bay on page 121 for properties and rules to deploy Rack/Enclosure/Bay servers.
Using Deployment Solution, you can employ rip and replace technology that lets you
insert a new server blade and automatically configure and deploy it exactly like the
previously installed server blade, letting you replace any server that is down and get it
back on line quickly. By default, the replay option is checked when you create a new job.
This option replays the job during any rip and replace actions.
Symantec provides fail-safe features to ensure that no server is mistakenly overwritten
and that all disk images, software, data, and patches are applied to the new server from
the history of jobs assigned to the previous server blade.

Managing new server blades

Deployment Solution lets you automatically deploy, configure and provision new server
blades using a variety of features, including Sample Jobs and Server Deployment Rules.
See Sample jobs on page 196 and
New server blades in newly identified bays
When new blades are identified in a Bay that has not been used previously (if it has
been used previously, the Bay object is identified in the physical view), both the Initial
Deployment and Virtual Bays features can be set up to automatically run configuration
tasks and deployment jobs.
To Create Virtual Bays: Set up Virtual Rack/Enclosure/Bays for Hewlett-Packard Rapid
Deployment Pack installations of Deployment Solution.
Server deployment rules on page 121.
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