Pxe Redirection - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

PXE Redirection

Deployment Solution
Lets you redirect a global PXE menu option to a local PXE menu option. Redirection
settings are not available globally, they are always specific to an individual Altiris PXE
Server. This is due to the role redirection plays in your PXE environment.
Consider the following example:
You manage computers in three locations: Two offices in Ontario, and one office in
Alberta. To limit transfer between each site, each office has a local Altiris PXE Server,
and a file server with a mirror of the deployment share. This enables clients at each
location to contact the local Altiris PXE Server to boot and use the local deployment
mirror to access the network tools and to store images.
You need to create a job to capture an image of each managed computer on Friday
evening, once a month. To create this job, you add an imaging task, select a PXE boot
option, and set the schedule.
Hold on. If you select the same PXE boot option for each office, you are going to have
problems. The Alberta office uses a mirror of the deployment share on alb1\eXpress,
and stores captured images on alb1\images. The two Ontario offices use the ont1 and
ont2 servers respectively.
You could go ahead and create three global configurations and three different jobs, but
that is confusing and could potentially cause problems if the wrong selection is made. If
you took this route, on each Altiris PXE Server, two of the three global configurations
could potentially cause problems (they are mapped to drives in remote offices). To avoid
problems, select a single global configuration for a job and update it based on the
location of the Altiris PXE Server.
This is exactly what redirection does. You create a global configuration (example:
named "Imaging Environment"). On each Altiris PXE Server, you create a local
configuration for each office with the correct server mappings.
The "Imaging Environment" global option is redirected to the local option, and the
process is simplified. Now the imaging job can be applied to all computers at once,
simplifying the process and reducing the chance of errors.
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