Deployment Solution

So what happens:

schedule job A for PC 1234
PC1234 reboots
PC 1234 gets PXE screen showing it the options it can select
PC 1234 does not auto select any and just sits there for the alloted 5 seconds (because the PC is already in the database)


What would be causing the either PXE server or the DS server not to be autoselecting the right PXE image? (hell any PXE image at all)


how can I better bug test this?

Thanks

Chris 

I've seen this happen when the PXE services aren't really checking the DS database for active jobs.  When this happens, usually just restarting the PXE services seems to help.  If that doesn't help, then restarting the DS server will more than likely resolve the issue.

Please note that if you are attempting to use "initial deployment" and the machine is already in the database, it will not kick off any jobs from the initial deployment.  That is intended solely for machines that DS has never seen.

Try selecting the correct pxe menu option set in the job you are running.  If the job runs then the DS is not seeing that the computer has the job scheduled.  You may want to look at what your primary key is and verify that all the inventory has run on the computer.  That way the DS knows everything about the computer so it know that it is the correct computer to run for the job that is scheduled for it.

 OK to add:

it looks like it is automatically selecting the PXE boot environment (as it shows the "Altiris Auto PXE management ...." that shows up after it automatically selects the WinPE image).

But once it does that I get a:

PXE02: Exiting broadcomm PXE boot


and then the job fails.


This has never happened before, and I know it works on other PCs as I can push the image to a different PC and it would work fine.

I am going ot try another reboot in the meantime (once the WinPE image finishes rebuilding; my only theory so far).


Chris

 Seems like something worked.

Either the fact that i rebuilt the PXE image or that I restarted the PXE services again.


Thanks for all the help guys, helped me out a lot by giving me some new ideas to ponder while trying to troubleshoot.

Like they always say, Two heads are better than one!


Chris