LANDesk User Community : Discussion List - OS Deployment

HII Driver Repository Manager

community.admin@landesk.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:01:11 GMT

Hi, after installing SP3, I keep seeing this HII Driver Repository Manager. Anyone knows how to make it go away? I`ve setup a PPS as requested, no more error message shows up when I clicked the Save button. I really want to remove this repository manager so that I can access to the normal driver repository.

Anyone can help?

Thanks

Regards,

Sarah

PXE booting client using Managed WinPE doesn't populate in Console

community.admin@landesk.com — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:44:41 GMT

So I have some questions about the behavior of the PXE holding Queue and the PXE boot opition: MANAGED WinPE

In reading the LDMS 9.0 training manual and the help file in the console, I expect the following behavior:

If I configure the PXE services on my core to make my PXE Rep a HOLDING QUEUE PROXY, then any computer that I boot via PXE and select MANAGED WinPE will then appear in the console's PXE HOLDING QUEUE.

currently:

I have a bare metal computer that I want to run tasks against using the LDMS 9.0 Console.
I have booted the machine via PXE to MANAGED WinPE and expected it to appear in both the PXE HOLDING QUEUE and in the ALL DEVICES network view.
neither has happend; the machine does not appear in the console anywhere. I currently have only 20 machines in the console so I know I'm not overlooking the computer

I have observed that the bare metal computer boots as advertised and that it reports a successful communication with the landesk core; but the console window in WinPE doesn't last very long before it closes; the last thing that I see is "THIS IS PXE" or something like that.

Question:

How to I get my computers to associate with the LDMS console using PXE. I know I am supposed to do this and I hoped to use the PXE holding queue...but if the computers never show up in the console then I'm stuck.

Supporting documentation:

->from the console help file:

#Booting devices with PXE

When a PXE-enabled device boots, the following occurs:

The PXE-enabled device sends out a query for PXE services running on a PXE representative on the network.
If a PXE representative exists on the subnet, it responds and tells the device to continue to boot using PXE.
A PXE boot session is initiated on the device and the PXE boot prompt displays. The default prompt message displays for four seconds and says "Press F8 to view menu." (You can modify these PXE boot prompt settings on the Configure > Services > OS deployment tab.)
If the F8 key is pressed before the countdown expires, a preliminary PXE boot menu appears, allowing you to choose from the following boot options:

Local boot: The device boots to the local hard drive. If no OS is present, an error message appears.
LANDesk managed boot: The device is added to the console's network view (displays the device's MAC address), where you can schedule an OS deployment script to run on it.

->from the Landesk LDMS 9.0 training book; pg 70

to place computers in teh holding queue....

.....Any computer booting to the PXE with PXE representative is a holding queue proxy, and it will be added to the holding queue automatically".

***my typing is EXACTLY what is in the book; which is poorly written; still I take this to mean that a PXE rep which is a Holding Queue Proxy will then automatically dump any machine which contacts it into the PXE holding queue***

from page 76, an activity:

11. reboot the client to PXE

12. press F8

13. highlight Managed WinPE

14. press enter

15. return to the core server

16. from entwork view expand CONFIGURATION

17. select PXE HOLDING QUEUE

18. verify the computer is in the holding queue

....I am doing these things but I can't see the machine in the console. HELP!

HII in LDMS 90 SP3 using an XP Image

community.admin@landesk.com — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:05:16 GMT

Now that you don’t manually associate devices with drivers, we rely solely on the contents of the inf file to determine what devices the driver is for and for what OS. So long as the inf file is accurate and well written this is great. Meanwhile, in the real world we have situations whereby sysprep is given a Windows 7 driver to install during an XP installation, or a touchpad driver being installed on a desktop, or certain drivers not being copied at all. This is exactly what appears to be happening at one of our customers right now (all of the above).

Its worth noting that the problem doesn’t seem to be nearly as bad in Windows 7, seemingly because DISM will prevent incorrect drivers being enumerated. With XP though..... it's a different matter.

Has anyone else experienced this or had any thoughts on a viable workaround? For the XP machines we're currently looking at having to drop back to copydrivers.

LANDESK - Why have you took a process that worked well and managed to seemingly break it? On how many models were the 20,000 odd tests done on in provisioning with XP? It very much feels like the test was only done on Windows 7 or on XP with only XP drivers in the HII database on a single hardware model (probably even just virtual)....

Query for PXE Reps

community.admin@landesk.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:29:02 GMT

Is there a value in the device inventory that I can query on to find all the devices that are PXE Reps?

Thanks,

Jim

HII pulling incorrect drivers, can we force?

community.admin@landesk.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:29:31 GMT

I am imaging numerous Dell models. We have similar models, Optiplex 745, 755, and 760. The 745/755 are pulling a driver but it is the incorrect one. Is there a way to force, based on model, the folder it pulls from? HII thinks it is a compatible driver but it isn't the correct one. We have obtained all of the correct drivers from Dell's website but can't get it to choose the correct one for those two models.

Any help is always appreciated!

Thank you.

Job stuck in task Queue

community.admin@landesk.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:42:38 GMT

I am running LD3 SP3.

I ran a software job and it said it went into a task queue.

I know this was answered before but when I right clicked and went to "Scheduled Tasks and Policies" there were 2 other tasks awaiting. I ran the Clear_Task_Queue script and it said it cleared the tasks but in the "Scheduled Tasks and Policies" the tasks were still there so I went and found the jobs and removed my client from them which cleared them from "Scheduled Tasks and Policies".

Now that everything looked like it was clear I try to run the job again and it said it was queued again. I waited an hour and it still hadn't run so I went home. This morning I come back and the job had run.

P.S. I also remoted in and ran Desktop Manager to get the policy invoker to run the job but it didn't.

My question is if the policy invoker is in charge of running a queued task when does it run? If its determined by the Agents - software distribution - policy options then mine is set for every 15 minutes so why after an hour had it not run?

PXE boot with ultrabook and USB ethernet

community.admin@landesk.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:55:38 GMT

Greetings all,

We are going to start deploying some ultrabooks in our company but have hit a stumbling block with capturing and deploying an image.

We are trying to capture an image, but the USB ethernet device we have will not PXE boot. The solutions I have found is to create a boot floppy or CD, but the ultrabook has neither.

I was wondering if it's possible to copy the image to a USB and install it on the computers that way? Or if someone has a better suggestion i'm all ears.

Thanks for your time.

PXE Representative Deployment Problem:

community.admin@landesk.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:24:28 GMT

PXE Representative:

LANDesk v9 SP2

At the OSD, I had no problem, but last week I can no longer deploy PXE representative. When I run the deployment sequence of PXE representative on the machine, the task sequence completes successfully, but at the machine, ... PXE files are not created and the services are not installed. I visit the forum, but I find no answers to my problem.
Do you have a solution for me? Maybe a problem right?

OS deployment from dvd windows7

community.admin@landesk.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:15:12 GMT

Hi all,

I am new to the community.

I have a project for the deployment of future hosts of the company where I work.

I would like to place an image captured master, load the image wim Original present on the windows 7 dvd.

This feature is possible in Windows DS, but is it possible via landesk?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Cordially.

Yann

Zero-touch using pxe based OS deployment

community.admin@landesk.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:59:15 GMT

Can any one have the scripts for making our OS Deployment as zero touch in the pxe based environment....

Thanks in advance.....

PXE-E32: TFTP open time out error.

community.admin@landesk.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:28:15 GMT

Hi all,

The problem i am facing is on the client machine,

PXE-E32: TFTP open time out error.

When i saw this one in net they are telling to check weather the TFTP service is on or not.

Actually iam not able to find out the TFTP service on the core server machine...

please help me to sort out this error.....