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Chapter 6
What is Automation?
Deployment Solution uses two modes to manage computers:
Several of the tasks you perform to manage your network can be completed in the
production environment. However, other tasks, primarily imaging, must be performed
before the operating system boots. In Deployment Solution, this pre-boot environment
is called the automation environment, or booting into “automation mode”.
The following table contains a list of Deployment Solution tasks and the environment in
which they execute:
In order to manage computers in automation, you must select a method to boot
computers to automation and decide which operating to use in the automation
environment.
Deployment Solution provides support for a broad range of boot methods and
automation operating systems; this section helps you decide which works best for your
environment.
In order to set up automation, you must make the following decisions:
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Which Automation Boot Method Should I Use? (page 41)
Automation Automation is to the pre-boot environment loaded by
Deployment Server to perform tasks which need to take
place outside the normal operating system.
If you have ever used a disk imaging utility, or booted a
computer using an installation CD, you are probably
familiar with running computers in a similar
environment.
Production The normal operating system of the computer.
Production tasks include software installation and
personality capture.
Production Tasks Automation Tasks
Distribute Software Create Disk Image
Capture Personality Distribute Disk Image
Distribute Personality Scripted OS Install
Get Inventory Run script
SVS
Copy File to
Modify Configuration
Power Control
Run script