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The OS Deployment node is the central entry point for the deployment of operating systems to the devices within your network. With this functionality you can install completely new devices with an empty hard disk, you can reinstall existing devices with new operating systems or repair existing systems.

Any device with a Windows operating system in your network can be OSD Manager, it only must fulfill the requirements, be declared as such and have the required OSD modules loaded. Only one OSD Manager should be defined.

Note:

If you are upgrading from a version prior to 12.1, your existing OSD Managers are still available.

After an OSD Manager is declared and set up as such, it appears under the OS Deployment node. You can then create the deployments it is to execute.

This view provides information about the defined OSD Manager:

Column

Description

Name

The name of the OSD Manager.

OSD Role

The type of OSD role the device is assigned to. This may be either Image Repository , Network Boot Listener or Image Repository and Network Boot Listener , if the OSD agent executes both roles.

IP Address

The IP address of the OSD Manager.

Operating System Name

The operating system running on the OSD Manager.

For OSD Manager prerequisites, see Prerequisites-for-OSD .

To add and configure an OSD Manager, see Adding and configuring the OSD Manager .

 

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