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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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viTivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment

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IBM REDP-4372-00 manual 4372TOC.fm

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Redpaper Page International Technical Support Organization First Edition January Contents 4372TOC.fm Index 4372TOC.fm 4372spec.fm Trademarks IBM Preface Team that wrote this paper 4372pref.fm Become a published author Comments welcome 4372pref.fm 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 4372ch01.fm 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 4372ch01.fm A real-world retail IT environment 4372ch01.fm 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 4372ch02.fm 45 Select profile for editing Client Machine Boot and Deploy 47 Adding a variable into the hostname 48 Starting the actual deployment 4372ch02.fm 4372ch02.fm 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 4372ch04.fm 4372ch04.fm 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 BackupsPower off Performing a POS terminal backup POS system booted up in PXE mode Enter a name for the backup 4372ch05.fm 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 Network Bandwidth Considerations UnicastMulticast 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 4372ax01.fm Using the Web material Locating the Web material How to use the Web material System requirements for downloading the Web material Glossary 4372glos.fm IBM Redbooks Other publications Help from IBM How to get RedbooksOnline resources Index Uuid Page Redpaper

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