Dell RDP equivalent?
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bhawver
June 22nd, 2009
Does anyone know if there is a Dell equivalent to the HP RDP for DS? I have only been able to find the "Deployment Solution for Dell Servers".
-B
No real difference that I'm aware of
Deployment Solution for Dell Servers should be exactly what you want. Rapid Deployment Pack from HP is nothing but a re-branded Deployment Solution that also includes a jobs specific to HP hardware, as well as built-in iLO functionality. The only reason that we downloaded it (we already own Deployment Solution for Servers) was to get those HP-specific jobs.
Jesse Kozikowski
Aspirus, Inc.
Dell
That's what I'm looking for is the Dell hardware specific jobs (not for the servers but for the desktops/laptops/workstations).
Here's some tools
Deployment Solution for Dell Servers does it's magic through what's called the Dell OpenManage Toolkit. Basically a set of utilities to configure hardware. If you're looking for similar functionality for desktops, I don't know of a solution that has been built specifically for that purpose. However if you know how to create custom run script tasks through DS you can easily code up some small scripts to do some Dell desktop hardware configuration.
Here's some Dell specific configuration tools:
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/cmdlinetools....
Also, I should also mention that the scripted OS deployment jobs included in Deployment Solution for Dell Servers should work just fine with desktops, it's just the hardware configuration portions that you wouldn't be able to use.
Good luck,
Thanks
Thanks for the help. I found it (right under my nose). If you goto the NS console it is listed right there as a solution to be installed. The Altiris Dell Client Manager Solution. I'm gonna give that a shot.
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