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additiononal server (not shown) that provides DHCP services to our simulated environment.
Four types of POS devices exist in the simulated environment as well, each of which is a unique model, which helps to demonstrate Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment’s capability of identifying different types of hardware and injecting the right drivers for each. In a large super market, for instance, it would not be unrealistic to have different types of hardware performing the same functions. The IT department would then typically have at least one of each hardware type.
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Note that the environment does not include any application servers or other management systems. There would most likely be at least one application server in each warehouse, and several centrally located application servers in an actual enterprise, but management of these servers falls outside the scope of this paper. Likewise, there would normally be servers for systems management, such as monitoring and remote administration, but these are also outside our scope.
14Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
