Operations on the OSD Manager

You can execute the following operations on the OSD Manager:

Changing the OSD role

Changing the OSD role means that an existing OSD agent is either taking on another role or giving up one of its assigned roles, that is, being an image repository or network boot listener or both. You can assign the OSD Manager the additional role of network boot listener, but you cannot remove its image repository role, which it is assigned by default.

1. Select Edit > Change OSD Role .
2. In the Change the OSD Role window either clear the role to remove or check the box for the role to add to the current OSD agent.
3. Click OK .

The roles of the OSD agent are updated immediately.

Adding image repositories and network boot listeners

Any device with any supported operating system in Client Management can be an image repository or network boot listeners or both. When a device is added to one or both of these roles, the OSD module is loaded on the device and it also becomes an OSD agent .

1. Select Edit > Add Image Repository/Network Boot Listener .
2. Select the agent you want for the new role in the Add an Image Repository or a Network Boot Listener window.
3. (Optional) If the new role for the agent is to be an image repository, select the Image Repository box.
4. (Optional) If the agent is not to be a network boot listener, clear the Network Boot Listener box.
5. Click OK.

The OSD agent is added to the list of children with the defined roles.

Removing an OSD Manager

When you are removing an OSD Manager, you are only removing this role from the device, not deleting the device from the database.

1. Select the OS Deployment node.
2. Select the OSD Manager to remove in the list.
3. Select Edit > Remove OSD Manager .

The selected OSD Manager is removed, and all its objects and other OSD related data are purged.