Deployment Solution

Hi

I have installed altiris DS 6.8.I am trying to do pxe boot. after booting it gets ip from my dhcp server and immediatly after that it goes bootworks screen . it is not lanching rdeploy prompt for creating and restoring image.

Regds

rajesh

This is a very old version of Deployment solution by-the-way, and it's out of support.  The current release is DS 6.9 SP4.  Well, or DS 7.1, but that's different.  If you JUST installed it, you either have a very old copy you bought a long time ago and are finally using, or you should have downloaded a more recent one.

Your description is a little bit... interesting.  What OS are you trying to PXE boot to?  You have your NIC set up to boot from the network, I hope, and you say "it gets a DHCP address" but at what point in the booting process?  You mentioned a bootworks screen - do you see an error?  Are you using FreeDos, MS DOS, WinPE, Linux?

Can you describe a little more what you are seeing?  Maybe a screen-shot of an error?

Please find screenshot of PXE boot process. I am not getting rapideploy screen for creating and restoring image. It directly goes to boot works .

We have also tried reinstalling PXE server.

Step 1

We select f12 for pxe boot

We select f8 for selecting pxe boot menu

We select final from boot menu

After this, we are not getting Rapideploy screen  it directly goes to bootworks screen as below.

In short , we are not getting the below rapideploy screen for creating and restoring image.

Please find the attched file with screenshot

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PXE boot process.docx   211 KB 1 version

It wants to boot to production.  This leads me to believe that there is a job configured for that particular machine that is looking for the Production OS, or the initial deployment job isn't configured to choose the correct automation environment from PXE.

What I would do first is ensure there are either no jobs assigned to that computer in DS, or if you require a job to launch RapiDeploy, then ensure the correct job is there.  If a job is required, ensure that the job is set to use the correct Automation environment in PXE.

The same goes for Initial Deployment (if you are using that), make sure that the job assigned to Initial Deployment is set to use the correct Automation environment in PXE.  This has caused more headaches for more people because they miss this.

If you have to select F8, then the PXE server doesn't think you have anything for it in automation.  After selecting F12, if you've configured everything correctly, the rest should "just happen" without intervention.

For instance, if you've enabled "initial deployment" then any "unknown" computers will automatically boot to that menu and do that work.  However, any "known" computers will not.  They will boot to PXE, and try to go to production because there's no work to be done.  If you FORCE it to go to PXE, once the agent checks in and finds no work to be done, it will try to go to production.

In short, you have to give the computer instructions to go to PXE.  If the system is "known" already to the console, you have to create at LEAST a bogus job to boot to pxe and "wait" - which we have some jobs for.  Preferrably, you create a job to go to PXE and do something.

If it's an unknown computer, then you have to ensure Initial Deployment is configured correctly, so that you don't have to press F8 to get to that menu.  Remember though that Initial Deployment only works for unknown computers, not known ones!

Hi,

How to enable  initial deployment "  for "unknown" computers in deploymet server.please give me the steps which i need to follow. if you have screenshots for initial deployment configuation please share with me.

Thanks & regards

rajesh

Please help on above request

I don't have 6.8 installed anymore.  I was hoping someone else would respond.

See if this is a good starting point:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO2751

Let us know if you have remaining questions after that.