Altiris PXE Server without DHCP.
Updated: 22 May 2010 | 4 comments
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Hi,
Installing Altiris Deployment Server and Altiris PXE Server with out DHCP. In my network we not have any DHCP we cant install the DHCP server. its passable boot the system with PXE Boot set the Static ipaddress ?
Regards,
Gopinath.D
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I have the sample question
How can I make the bootdisk. And I will use this bootdisk in usb or cdrom
Hi Gopinath, To my knowledge,
Hi Gopinath,
To my knowledge, PXE is unusable without DHCP. You see, the Intel "Wired for Management " standard requires that clients recieve an IP address from a DHCP server so it can connect to the network. Once on the network, it can then contact the sites PXE server.
Programming a static IP address into the PXE boot ROMs is simply not scalable in the enterprise (you'd have to program this individiually into every BIOS if this option were ever to be implemented), and moving machines around subnets would become a nightmare with pre-programmed IPs in the BIOSs!
There are other options though -automation doesn't have to be delivered by a PXE server. You can use embedded bootworks, CDroms and USB sticks.
You can be sneaky on some site too with DHCP. You see, if you have a site whose clients have static IP addresses configured, you can configure a DHCP server to those clients their IP addresses using static registrations. This means your clients in DHCP mode will only ever get the IPs they were assigned in their static configurations anyway. You can scavenge the express database to get a mapping of IP addresses to MAC addresses -so you don't even have to ask for this info -you already have it.
Kind Regards,
Ian./
Ian Atkin, Senior Developer for the ICT Support Team, Oxford University, UK
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Hi Lan, Thanks for replay ..
Hi Lan,
Thanks for replay ..
How do i set PEX Boot from USB Pen driver ? do have any doc to share me.
its not passable to have 300 thin client MCP ipaddress registering.
Regards,
Gopinath.D
You can't do the equivalent
You can't do the equivalent of a PXE boot from a USB pen drive without a lot of wizardry -PXE booting is the process of booting from the network and downloading a bootable image from a PXE server. The bootable image which is downloaded is the Altiris Automation environment. This bootable image can be either DOS, WinPE or Linux.
When PXE booting is not an option in your environment, the other option is to boot your client directly off the image which you would have downloaded from the PXE server. These images can go on CDs, USB drives or even embedded in the harddisk as a partition.
I think its important to make this clear as you will NOT be PXE booting if you use a USB drive boot, so any changes you make in the DS Console PXE Configurator will not be passed down to your flash drives.
Checkout Altiris KB 27292 to get more aquainted with the Altiris Preboot services,
I recently also posted a article on creating bootable USB drives with Bootdisk creator which might also help explain a few things about creating automation environments on USB flash drives,
www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/dont-let-bootdisk-creator-eat-your-thumb-drive
Bobcool -you might also find the above articles of use.
Kind Regards,
Ian./
Ian Atkin, Senior Developer for the ICT Support Team, Oxford University, UK
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