For a detailed review of the core scripts involved in this process, see Section B.2, “Core
Script Process” (page 206).
7.8 Booting the Point of Service
Terminal
IMPORTANT: Creating LDAP Objects Before Booting
You must create
scCashRegister
and its associated objects before you can
boot the Point of Service terminals. For more information, see Section 7.4.1,
“Adding an
scCashRegister
Object” (page 74).
Typically, when you boot a Point of Service terminal, it will first try to boot from CD
or USB-stick. If a CD or USB device is not available, the terminal attempts a network
PXE boot. If the network is not available, it then boots from the hard drive. You can
override this order with the BIOS settings.
The first time you boot the Point of Service terminals, the
posleases2ldap
daemon
automatically triggers
posldap2crconfig.pl
which then creates a workstation
object (
scWorkstation
) and hardware configuration files for the Point of Service
terminals that register on the Branch Server. For more information on this process, see
Section 7.7.3, “The hwtype.
MAC
File” (page 100).
Figure 7.1, “Point of Service Terminal Boot Process” (page 103) provides a simplified
overview of the Point of Service boot process for a network PXE boot, a hard disk boot,
and a CD boot.
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