Deployment Solution

Greetings,

We've begun importing physical servers into VMWare. One issue - the VMWare generates a new MAC address for the imported server and Altiris still has the MAC of the original servers NIC. Can no longer find \ manage the server.

Is there a way to modify the server record in Altiris and update the MAC? We'd prefer not doing a delete \ recreate the server if it means losing the Altiris history. Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks

 I'm pretty sure in VMWare you can specify a specific MAC address to be used.  You will need to ensure that the physical machine is never on the same network again though.

Otherwise, you may be able to make the change directly in SQL.  I don't know off hand what table it would be in, but I would imagine you should be able to do a query throughout the database and replace the old MAC with the new MAC.

Thanks for the reply. We're looking at that as a possibility, but seems there is a certain degree of risk editing the DB directly? An equally good work around would be to just transfer the install history of the old server to the new. That's the only item were concerned about losing in the transition. This possible?

Not sure if you can transfer the contents of the history or not.  I've never actually tried that.  As for editing the database directly, there is always a risk (just like editing your registry).  That's why if you attempt it, you should shut down anything that might be writing to it (express services, etc.) and have a good backup in case something goes awry.