Help with remote deployment share

Bonez · 03-10-2008, 08:09 PM

Hello,

I am the Altiris administrator for my company, however I have not delt with Altiris in any of my previous employment, so i'm on quite a large learning curve right now. I have been reading as much documentation as possible and am starting to get a feel for the product.

In our organization we have 1 head office and 3 remote sites, all connected by 2mbps WAN links.
At the head office we have the NS and DS configured and working correctly.

At each remote site we also have a server which is basically dedicated to do with anything Altiris.

I have installed an additional PXE server and Deployment Console on each of the 3 remote site servers.
The PXE server and DS console both work fine and are able to talk back to the server at the head office.

This is where I'm stuck - I now want to create a Deployment Share on each of the remote servers so that software packages and scripted OS installs can be done from the local site without having to make use of the WAN to transfer large amounts of data.

I've been googling and reading a lot but I can't really find out exactly what i'm supposed to do to make this work.

Does anyone have any ideas or can you possibly point me in the right direction with some documentation etc?

Thanks in advance
Bonez

jdean · 03-10-2008, 08:37 PM

Check out KB 27336 at kb.altiris.com.

Does that help?

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Originally Posted by Bonez

Hello,

I am the Altiris administrator for my company, however I have not delt with Altiris in any of my previous employment, so i'm on quite a large learning curve right now. I have been reading as much documentation as possible and am starting to get a feel for the product.

In our organization we have 1 head office and 3 remote sites, all connected by 2mbps WAN links.
At the head office we have the NS and DS configured and working correctly.

At each remote site we also have a server which is basically dedicated to do with anything Altiris.

I have installed an additional PXE server and Deployment Console on each of the 3 remote site servers.
The PXE server and DS console both work fine and are able to talk back to the server at the head office.

This is where I'm stuck - I now want to create a Deployment Share on each of the remote servers so that software packages and scripted OS installs can be done from the local site without having to make use of the WAN to transfer large amounts of data.

I've been googling and reading a lot but I can't really find out exactly what i'm supposed to do to make this work.

Does anyone have any ideas or can you possibly point me in the right direction with some documentation etc?

Thanks in advance
Bonez

Bonez · 03-10-2008, 09:36 PM

Hi,

Yes that does help - thank you.

However it mentions subordinate DS's - and replicating between DS's.

I was under the impression that you should only use 1 DS in the organization and then at the remote sites just have a 'deployment share'.

Am I wrong?

rdvanorman · 03-13-2008, 08:13 PM

If the KB doesn't work for you I have a process that I got from the former Blue Willow Group. It checks the ip of the local machine and then compares that to a text file. Then it will pull the package from the local package server. I use robocopy to replicate my packages every night. I've used this for 4 years now. It works like a champ.

Bonez · 03-13-2008, 09:12 PM

Hi Roger,

Thanks for your reply. I'd love to get some more information on how you script your replication and deployment shares.

Feel free to send through anything you have, it would be muchly appreciated.

Cheers
Bonez

tubaboy26 · 03-14-2008, 11:28 AM

I would also be interested in that info we are about to rollout 2 new call centers this year and I need to plan how DS will work between the sites.

Nick · 03-14-2008, 12:00 PM

You guys may want to read up on the Deployment Server Image Distribution Framework as well.