4372ch05.fm | Draft Document for Review November 15, 2007 3:27 pm |
7.Click Finish to exit the wizard. You will note that in the point of sale list, the machine with serial number: 41A2041, is now known to Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment as “POS01”, while the original POS01, with serial number 41W8197, is no longer listed (Figure
Figure 5-36 Veryfying the hardware switch from the POS overview
In the real world, we would now be able to restore backups that were created against the original POS01, to the new machine that has assumed that name so that the new machine could function in its place.
However, since we have - against the advice of the hardware switch wizard - substituted a machine of a different model, we end up with a terminal that won’t boot its operating system.
This example serves to underscore the importance of using exactly the same model of POS terminal hardware when performing a hardware switch. In this case, only half of the screen is visible on the terminal because, among other things, the video driver is not the correct one for this machine.
Note: After the excercise above, we were able to perform another hardware switch and two backup restores to return POS01 and POS02 to their original configurations.
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