Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - FOR DELL SERVERS... User manual

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introducing Deployment Solution for Dell
Servers .............................................................................. 9
About Deployment Solution for Dell Servers ....................................... 9
Chapter 2 Getting started with Deployment Solution for Dell
Servers ............................................................................. 11
Using Deployment Solution for Dell Servers ...................................... 11
Creating a PXE pre-OS image for a Dell server ................................... 13
Installing WinRM ......................................................................... 15
Chapter 3 Provisioning Dell servers ................................................... 17
About zero-touch provisioning ....................................................... 17
Creating provisioning credentials ................................................... 18
Provisioning a Dell server .............................................................. 19
Adding a certificate trust list to IIS .................................................. 21
Chapter 4 Creating tasks and jobs on Dell servers ......................... 23
About deployment tasks and jobs for Dell servers ............................... 23
About DTK tasks for Dell servers ..................................................... 24
About Lifecycle Controller tasks for Dell servers ................................ 25
Creating a deployment task for a Dell server ..................................... 26
Viewing a log file for a task ............................................................ 27
Chapter 5 Configuring BIOS, DRAC, and RAID ................................. 29
About configuration files ............................................................... 29
Configure BIOS - Advanced task type ............................................... 30
Configure BIOS - Simple task type ................................................... 31
Configure DRAC - Advanced task type .............................................. 32
Configure DRAC - Simple task type .................................................. 32
Configure RAID - Advanced task type .............................................. 33
Defining rules for RAID configurations ............................................ 34
Contents

Chapter 6 Performing a scripted OS installation ............................ 37
Performing a scripted OS installation without PXE ............................. 37
Open access to drivers task type ..................................................... 39
Copy Dell WinPE ISO to Vflash task type .......................................... 40
Boot to ISO on Vflash task ............................................................. 40
Boot to Dell ISO on network task ..................................................... 41
Copy Windows 2008 SOI drivers task ............................................... 41
Close access to drivers task ............................................................ 42
Modifying the answer file .............................................................. 42
Index .................................................................................................................... 45
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Introducing Deployment
Solution for Dell Servers
This chapter includes the following topics:
■About Deployment Solution for Dell Servers
About Deployment Solution for Dell Servers
You can remotely manage and automate the administration of your Dell servers
using Deployment Solution for Dell Servers.
See “Using Deployment Solution for Dell Servers”on page 11.
This software addition to Deployment Solution lets you manage your Dell servers.
You can create tasks from the predefined task types that Deployment Solution
for Dell provides. These tasks can configure your BIOS interfaces, DRAC (Dell
remote access controller) cards, and RAID systems. You can also create a task to
define dynamic types of RAID configurations. You can install an operating system
using a scripted install or image and update hardware configurations.
See “About deployment tasks and jobs for Dell servers”on page 23.
You can also use Deployment Solution for Dell to remotely provision servers using
zero-touch functionality. You can remotely install servers out of the box and
manage those servers across their life cycle.
See “Provisioning a Dell server”on page 19.
You should already be familiar with Deployment Solution and how to use its
features, such as:
■Creating a deployment task
■Scheduling a deployment task
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■Checking the state of a task
■Combining tasks into jobs
For more information, see the Deployment Solution Help. You can access this guide
from the Symantec Management Console on the Help > Documentation Library
menu.
Introducing Deployment Solution for Dell Servers
About Deployment Solution for Dell Servers
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