Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1, Manual

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You must create each task before it appears in your Manage > Jobs and Tasks >
System Jobs and Tasks > Deployment and Migration list.
See “Creating a deployment task” on page 42.
See “Combining tasks into a job” on page 44.
See “Scheduling a deployment task” on page 44.
See “Checking the state of a task” on page 45.
If a computer does not yet have the Symantec Management Agent or the
Deployment plug-in installed, you can import a predefined computer. Predefined
computers let you assign jobs to unmanaged computers.
See “Assigning jobs to an unmanaged computer” on page 46.
You can create Client Jobs and Server Jobs in Symantec Management Platform.
These two job types are identical with one exception. Server Jobs guarantee that
the exact same task sequence and execution path is followed for all nodes. For
example, the logic for a job specifies that the job stops if one of the tasks fails.
When that task fails out or times in one node, that job stops for all of the nodes.
Deployment Solution provides the following predefined tasks.
Table 4-1
Predefined deployment tasks
Description Task
Applies the new configurations to a computer.
See “Adding new system configuration settings”
on page 65.
Apply System Configuration
Uses PC Transplant to capture a computer’s settings
and files (personality).
See “Capturing user settings” on page 76.
Capture Personality
Copies the specified files and folders to a destination
computer.
See “Copy File options” on page 47.
Copy File
Creates disk images and backup images.
See “About creating an image” on page 59.
Create Image
Deploys the backup image files (not backup image
files).
See “About deploying an image” on page 61.
Deploy Image
Running tasks and jobs
About deployment tasks and jobs
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