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Install
Starting the admin tookit
Configuring the system profile
Command line method
Creating Backups
Select after-restore action
How to
Client Machine Boot and Deploy
Switching hardware
Using the Web material
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Contents
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International Technical Support Organization
First Edition January
Contents
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Index
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Trademarks
IBM
Preface
Team that wrote this paper
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Become a published author
Comments welcome
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Introduction
Target audience
Definition of roles and skills
Retail environment
A typical IT environment for a department store
Role and importance of IT
Operating systems on Point-of-sale devices
Introducing Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment
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Main processes for a Windows XP mass distribution
Software on a POS system from an architectural point of view
Typical scenarios in a system life cycle
POS System Lifecycle
First-time installations
Preparing a system for use as a master image
Re-deploying to a specific system to resolve a problem
Deploying to multiple systems from a master image
Introducing the LAB environment
LAB environment used for this Redpaper
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A real-world retail IT environment
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First-time installations
Introduction
Creating an unattended profile for Windows XP
Copying the media files
Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack
Files sucessfully copied from CD-ROM to target destination
Service Pack 2 unpack and integration in progress
Creating the unattended profile
Launching the Profile Wizard
Selecting unattended installation
Connecting to the Web Extension
Browse to source location
10 Operating system source files detected
12 Specify filesystem type and size in percentage format
14 Input product key
16 Specifying unattend.txt file or advanced settings
17 Entering name and comments for the profile
Adding drivers
18 Finishing the unattended profile creation wizard
Downloading and unpacking the drivers
19 System board driver package
Setup utility is launched as shown in -22 on
23 Accepting the license agreement
24 Review Readme Information
Creating a software package for device drivers
25 Display the extracted inf files
26 Create a new driver software package
27 Select a software package for the Windows Platform
30 Select the directory where the driver files are located
32 Naming of the software package and adding comments
Click Next and the import will begin as shown in Figure
35 Finishing the software package wizard
Deploying to a pristine system
Creating a deployment scheme
Select a name for the deployment scheme as shown in -38 on
39 Defining host-specific parameters during deployments
41 Selecting action after completed deployment
43 Optional selection of redeployment feature
Modifying the unattended profile for a dynamic host name
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45 Select profile for editing
Client Machine Boot and Deploy
47 Adding a variable into the hostname
48 Starting the actual deployment
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Mass-Distributions
Creating a cloned profile for Windows XP
Preparing the donor system
Sysprep files extracted
Options for the System Preparation Tool
Booting the system to be cloned
Capturing the system image
Starting the admin tookit
Admin Tookit Options
Next, select Create a System Profile as shown in -9 on
Selecting create a system profile
10 specify a name for the image to be captured
11 Verify the Operating system for capture
12 Specify the model for the image
13 Capturing the OS image
Configuring the system profile
14 completed image capture
Adding support for different hardware types
15 Process for adding support for new hardware types
Principle of device driver injection
Software Bindings
Deploying the XP cloning profile
Deployment Scheme Parameter Wizard
Deployment step by step
17 a system booted from network and connected to TPMfOSD
18 Selcting deploy now from the server console
19 The deployment wizard
20 Selecting a simple deployment
21 Selecting the deployment scheme for cloning
22 Selecting the Windows XP configuration
23 Finishing the deployment wizard
24 deployment progress on the target during deployment
25 Green banner on the target after successful deployment
Redeployment scenarios
Reasons for redeployment
Redeployment from the local hard drive
Enabling quick redeployment feature
Create a deployment scheme that supports redeployment
Set the redeployment partition size
Create a boot menu
Selecting the new deployment scheme for redeployment
Shows how the redeployment GUI can easily be customized
Customizing the redeployment GUI
Redeployment from the server
Process for local redeployment
Redeployment Process
Process for redeployment after a failed hard drive
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System image snapshots
Introducing the POS plug-in
Installing the POS plug-in
Obtaining the POS package
Installing the POS plug-in from the Windows GUI
Stop the Rembo server service GUI
Start → My Computer
Installing the POS plug-in from the command line
Restart the Rembo Server service GUI
Verifying the POS plug-in installation
Starting the Rembo Server service
Web console with POS plug-in added
Remotely controlling POS terminals
Context menu for POS devices
Wake on LAN
Creating Backups
Power off
Performing a POS terminal backup
POS system booted up in PXE mode
Enter a name for the backup
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11 Schedule the backup and optionally Wake on Lan or reboots
12 Confirming the backup options
Managing the list of backups
14 Backup successfully completed
15 POS context menu, selecting POS details
Restoring a POS backup
17 Point of sale details for a selcted system
18 Selecting the Point of sale features from the left panel
20 Choosing most recent or specific backup
22 Select after-restore action
24 Review the restore options
26 POS system booting up from the network
Switching hardware
28 POS system up and running
29 List of POS systems
Hardware switch wizard will start -31. Click Next
32 Select the new system to replace the old one
33 Warning that the POS systems are not identical
34 Confirming the hardware switch
36 Veryfying the hardware switch from the POS overview
Real world deployment scenarios
Large environment considerations
Managing development and production environments
Replicating software and configurations
Expanding from one to multiple servers
Built-in file replication service
Using the built-in file replication between several servers
Command line method
Profile migration
Export
Import
Multicast
Network Bandwidth Considerations
Unicast
Multicast with synchronization
Appendix A. Alternate boot sequence on POS systems
When to boot from hard drive and from network
Forcing a POS system to boot into PXE mode
Preparing alternate boot sequence for Wake on LAN
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Using the Web material
Locating the Web material
How to use the Web material
System requirements for downloading the Web material
Glossary
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IBM Redbooks
Other publications
Help from IBM
How to get Redbooks
Online resources
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