HI Paul,
My plan of action with a new workstation is to obviously make the image for
them, then either:
1) Make a MAC HW Rule (usually with the first 6 digits)with the new
image bundle assigned (preferred)
or 2) Load up PXE menu - Imaging Maintenance then 'img' at bash prompt and
manually dump image using the menus (rarely)
Other option is to edit the pxe menu and add another submenu that you can list
the images that you want to dump (I also do this) - can send examples if you
require.
Once the new machines have the image dumped on them as above I then use the MOE
joiner (EQ schools only) to add the workstation to AD, name it etc and part of
that process is then to install the Zen agent (at this stage the workstation is
then visible in ZCC - I know you can have the agent in the image but I dont
like doing that)
After this I can then manage the device (remote control, imaging etc all from
ZCC).
Personally I dont like doing much with the ZISD manually (sometimes the GUID
gets out of wack and I clear it - the GUID is important as this is how ZCM id`s
the computer for imaging as outlined in ZCC)
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Guys
Well thank you all for you contributions. I am sure it has helped to shorten
the time to "discover" all those features myself. I am nearly there, just one
last bit remains unclear. I have a new workstation with a formatted HD. I boot
to PXE, Ctrl Alt delete gets to the menu, I use the Imaging Maintenance option
to get to tha bash prompt. Zisedit allows me to enter the various parameters.
I can then discover the workstation, but I cannot assign it an imaging task, as
it was not "deployed". I know, Jamie said that can happen automatically, but at
this stage I could not find.
On a separate note, I had a meeting with my tech guys and we have decided to
stay with Ghost for at least another year. Whilst I am sure we are just about
there, in terms of imaging we felt that with the move to W7, deployment of
another year level of laptops, taking the numbers to 906 next years, moving a
number of services to Windows servers, we better keep something to what we know
well.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 24/11/2010 at 9:06 AM, CLARKE Jamie <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi John
Thats correct only for new machines or HDD replacements - yes the ZISD works
for those machines being re-imaged and have already been registered into the
ZCM Zone eg. their name etc is stored in the ISD aread of the disk.
Jamie Clarke
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Sunnybank State High School
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hey Jamie,
Can you please clarify why the bash script is used for rename? You say that its
for a workstation rename after being imaged, I can't see why there is a need
for this? Maybe if it was to get the identity into the management DB if one did
not already exist, ie they are all newly procured machines??
I have not used ZCM yet, but from my reading of the doco so far, the concept of
image-safe data on the HDD still exists. The ZENWorks Imaging Agent that runs
with Windows detects a just imaged flag set, and restores the image-safe data
consisting of NetBIOS name and eDir (or ZCM's db) identities to the the loaded
operating system instance.
BTW, Paul, this was a huge advantage I found coming here with ZfD Imaging over
Ghost when having computer identities existing in eDir. The problems we used to
face when we did it with Ghost involving SID change, Ghost Client machine
rename, "zwsreg.exe -unreg", "zwsreg.exe" to get the golden master's image
identity out of the registry, and then to get the post-image identity back in
goes completely away when using all the Novell tools instead.
John
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>>> CLARKE Jamie 11/23/10 3:33 PM >>>
Hi Paul & list,
:) Since MOE I dont really have to worry too much about that issue, I`m
assuming you want to assign a workstation name after re-image.
I know when I did my ZEN course there were a few BCC people and they use to
achieve this via the imaging scripts setup (action set in the imaging
bundle)and it would be done just after the imaging completed (its a bash
script). eg a script with MAC to Wks name I think it was.
We have something similar here but is achieved via a xml script (EQ MOE did it
for us - not done by me). However I must admint imaging scripts are a black
art and when I went searching about a year ago I couldnt find out much.
Heres an example we were given in the course although I`m kicking myself as I
lost the names.csv example which I believe was just the MAC to Workstation name
conversion
#!/bin/bash
# Get a list from the server tftp server
tftp $TFTPIP -c get names.csv
dos2unix -n names.csv linuxnames.csv
# Get the mac address
MACADDRESS=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr | awk '{print $5}' | tr -d :)
# Find the name from the file
NEWNAME=$(cat linuxnames.csv | grep -i $MACADDRESS | cut -d"," -f2)
zisedit ComputerName=$NEWNAME
You would simply add that as an imaging script action in your imaging
bundle....sorry but havent used the above but maybe you could get it working :)
Hope I have helped....you can see zisedit is simply used to assign the name at
the end.
Jamie Clarke
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Sunnybank State High School
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Jamie
Thank you for the kind offer, I will. I have ZEN 10SP3, I have installed couple
of weeks ago. I can deploy bundles, got PXE going and I have managed to take an
image of both XP and W7 workstation. I have also managed to multicast an image,
so that is all good.
I am not able to find out where you would apply configurations in a way Ghost
does it. I.e. to change the computer name etc.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 9:20 AM, CLARKE Jamie <[email protected]> wrote:
You must of missed my post ;) Michael beat you to it LOL.
Paul feel free to post your ZEN10 questions to the list if you have dramas,
I know some of us on the list run ZCM10.
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Michael Mollard
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 9:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows
7
Here's something that should start some discussion:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-
corporation
Michael Mollard
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Moreton Bay College
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>>> "Paul Bart" <[email protected]> 23/11/2010 9:00 AM >>>
Wow 5 posts in a day, the silence has been deafening of late :(
And yes, I would not mind that link either. Given that I am struggling with
migration to ZEN 10, potentially ZEN imaging (ghost currently is getting
rather expensive given I will have close to 900 devices next
year) and trying to develop some strategy for a full W7 rollout at the start
of the year.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:51 AM, "Michael Mollard"
<[email protected]> wrote:
If you get a decent link, could you share it? I'd be interested as well.
>>> "Paul Bart" <[email protected]> 23/11/2010 8:49 AM >>>
Hi John
If you e-mail Que Mangus [email protected] he will give you a link I am
sure. I got some from him earlier.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:16 AM, "John Neumann"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi guys,
Novell recently had a really decent looking online event as per the subject
of this message.
As usual it was held at 3am AEST and therefore I missed it. They have
promised an archived version, though.
My problem is that the support at Novell's web delivery partner for this
appear to be totally incompetent and keep giving me links to other
organisations' online events instead. Does anyone on here have the link to
the archived version of this event?
https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg
<https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg&F>
&F
=1002620&K=reminder&tab=overview
Thanks,
John
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Aquinas College, Ashmore
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