PXE Deployment Tweak

hornjik · 02-12-2009, 04:49 PM

We are having an issue where during the initial deployment, the ip address of the client machine is coming up as '(through DHCP)' and consequently, we cannot have our jobs dependant on ip addresse criteria.

Wondering if there is a tweak or an adjustment we forgot to make as its started happening since we upgraded to deployment server 6.9

deemacgee · 02-12-2009, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by hornjik

We are having an issue where during the initial deployment, the ip address of the client machine is coming up as '(through DHCP)' and consequently, we cannot have our jobs dependant on ip addresse criteria.

Wondering if there is a tweak or an adjustment we forgot to make as its started happening since we upgraded to deployment server 6.9

Not sure I understand.

From where are you referencing the data - the Console? Directly from the eXpress database via a token? On the machine itself? And are you booting to DOS or WinPE?

hornjik · 02-12-2009, 09:23 PM

thankyou for your response

we are seeing it via the console on the deployment server.

What we try to do to minimise build jobs is to have one job, with multiple condition sets that say if you have ip address x, build from this condition list, then that condition list, lists a local server to grab the image files from.

both DOS and winpe for bootdisks, i can send a screen print if this doesnt make sense.

deemacgee · 02-12-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by hornjik

What we try to do to minimise build jobs is to have one job, with multiple condition sets that say if you have ip address x, build from this condition list, then that condition list, lists a local server to grab the image files from.

That's pretty cool!

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both DOS and winpe for bootdisks, i can send a screen print if this doesnt make sense.

Oh, yes please.

hornjik · 02-12-2009, 11:35 PM

so it was working eions ago, i think when we were on DS 6.5 but since multiple upgrades, we have lost the functionality. Just wondering if it was an option during the bootdisk creation of a DS option? Would be great if we can get it back.
dos/winpe being we use both, not both together at the same time

the list pic shows what i mean about the conditions, you can add condition lists in there rather than just having the default, assign an ip address marker then add tasks specific to the local server, the dhcp pic is what it looks like now when the machine is booting from winpe, dos bootdisk doesnt have the zero's but all else looks the same.

hornjik · 02-12-2009, 11:36 PM

deemacgee · 02-13-2009, 01:17 AM

I see what you mean... hmmm... this happens on mine as well.

How do you make use of the IP? Is it a direct comparison, like

Code:

IF <ip address> = <whatever> THEN <do this>

or... is it something else?

hornjik · 02-15-2009, 09:18 PM

its in the options of the condition set, ip address, starts with....

deemacgee · 02-16-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by hornjik

its in the options of the condition set, ip address, starts with....

That's a good one, and frankly... at a loss.

Short of doing something obscenely complex (like manually editiing the eXpress database with osql or something similar), I can't think of anything. Perhaps the good denizens of Altirigos can help?

ztruelove · 02-17-2009, 12:59 PM

I'm not sure if you would want to go this route or not, but instead of using the condition capability, I have a vbscript that maps a drive (V: specifically) to a particular server based on the client IP address. The image job is then directed to that drive letter for the image. Ultimately, I think we getting the same results you're after.

Bill Sullivan · 02-17-2009, 01:12 PM

what about remote PXE servers?
I think this would cover what you are intending to do here

Brandon · 02-17-2009, 01:59 PM

or make use of %SITE% instead https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=17101&p=1

hornjik · 02-17-2009, 05:03 PM

thankyou all for replying however, im thinking i aint making myself clear with my explanations.

We already have the model brandon alluded to as well as multiple PXE servers mapping to the correct local servers for grabbing the image, my problem is that our deployment server currently has 50 initial deployment jobs based on site. What i would like to see is to have one job per country, (could even make it one job) and a list of condition sets referring to client ip ranges. During the dos/winpe boot is the only place that its failing to let me do this as the clients ip address isnt updated in the deployment server, this only gets done when the aclient is installed on the OS and responds to the DS.

hope this makes sense