Altiris Image Distribution
We have a remote site with a slow WAN link. We would like to deploy images to that site, however we don't want to clog the piple and wait several hours. What I would like to do is replicate the DS images from our eXpress share to a NS package server over there. I have given the Deployment Solution 6.5: Image Distribution Framework PDF a quick read. However, is this currently still the best way to do this? We also don't have anything setup to replicate the images. I tested software called "Second Copy" but it seemed a little clunky. We also don't want to pay for additional software to do this unless absolutely neccessary. Is there any way to use the NS to replicate DS images? If we could just include DS images as part of the NS package server replication that would be awesome! We would then just run site specific jobs that pulled from that local package server. Of course, if it could automatically do this that would be even better. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Currently on NS 6.0.6074 (SP3+R8) & Deployment solution 6.9.174
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Our setup
We utilize DFS replication to our remote sites and then we use getserv to connect to the local server in automation. Works pretty well for us.
Brian Hawver
Systems Engineer
Yaskawa America, Inc.
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How we do it
In our environment we setup all of our Deployment Servers as package servers. We then created an SWD package for our image (and we also have packages set up for all of our applications we want to deploy from DS too), we don't define a program for it since we're just using it for the replication. In the advanced tab of the package, we check the Package Destination Location on Package Servers setting and set it to the express share, for example: C:\Program Files\altiris\express\deployment server\images\XPSP3\ and then set it to replicate to all package servers. So the image then gets replicated to all of our package servers (which are also DS's) and in our DS job, we just reference the path like so ".\Images\XPSP3\XP.img" so that it's the same on all DS's and we don't need any site-specific jobs. Hopefully that helps or at least gives you some ideas.
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