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OSIM Boot Server and Microsoft ADS Controller

PXE targets can alternatively be managed by an ADS (Automated Deployment Services) Microsoft Automated Deployment Services (ADS) is a deployment framework to remotely and automatically deploy operating systems in the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 families, as well as to configure, maintain, and manage servers. server.

Note: The Microsoft ADS Controller must not be installed on the OSIM Boot Server or on any DHCP server that is replying to OSIM PXE target machines; otherwise one of the boot servers may not be able to serve PXE targets.

If the ADS server is configured in the OSIM boot server, the OSIM boot server will ask the ADS server before it answers PXE requests of a special target. If the ADS server is responsible for the target, the OSIM boot server will not reply to PXE requests from the target.

Specifically, if no connection to the ADS server can be established, the configured OSIM boot server will only reply to PXE requests from target computers assigned to the OSIM boot server and not yet ADS managed.

Otherwise, if the target computer is already ADS managed, the configured OSIM boot server will never reply; and if the target computer is not ADS managed, it will follow the useACL settings.

Note: The precise meaning of "ADS managed" is determined by the ADSDload settings.

If the customer adds PXE targets to the ADS server, the configured OSIM boot server will be notified from the ADS server. As the boot server reports the ADS managed targets to the DSM domain manager, this targets will be marked as ADS managed in the MDB database. The domain manager removes all OS installation jobs of that target and also the current OS installation will be removed. The domain manager does not provide methods to create OSIM OS installation jobs for the target as long as the target is marked as ADS managed.

If the customer removes the PXE target from the ADS server, the configured OSIM boot server will be notified from the ADS server. The boot server reports the target as no longer ADS managed to the domain manager.

You have to use the OSIM tab of the Computer Properties dialog to enable the computer for OSIM again.

Note: ADS must be configured to use MAC addresses as device identifiers (this is the default).