Starting The Ghostcast Session; Ghostcast Server Command-Line Options - Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1 - V1.0 Manual

118 GhostCasting from the command line

Starting the GhostCast session

Starting the GhostCast session

GhostCast Server command-line options

Once you have created a GhostCast session and the client computers have appeared
on-screen, you can start the transmission.
To start the session transmission
When all clients have connected, click Start.
Table 9-1 lists the GhostCast Server command-line switches.
GhostCast Server switches
Table 9-1
Switch
-Ncount
-Ttime
-Ominutes
-Llevel
-Ffilename
-C
-D
-R
-P
-U
Description
Starts the GhostCast transmission after count clients have
joined the session.
Starts sending to a session automatically after a specified time
(24-hour hh:mm format) with a maximum of 24 hours.
Starts transmission minutes after the last client connection.
Creates a log file specifying log level E, S, W, I, or A.
The log level x can be E (errors), S (statistics), W (warnings),
I (information), or A (all) in increasing order of logging detail.
Specifies log file name for the -L option and is by default,
Ghostlog.txt.
Closes ghostsrv application after GhostCast session
completion.
Uses create from client mode. Restore to client is the default.
Restarts the GhostCast session on completion and waits for
client connections again after GhostCasting is complete.
Specifies partition mode operation. If restoring to clients, the
partition number must be given. If creating an image from
client, no partition number is required.
Forces the multicast mode, as follows:
-UM (Multicast)
-UU (Unicast)
-UD (Directed Broadcast)