Re: [Unattended] How about Application deployment?

Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
> @Adam:
> Can you give me some more information about "install machines remotely"? 
> This makes me curious, is there a way to use Unattended push-based?

There is a way to use Unattended push-ish based.  The process is rather 
simple.  We have a command on our network that will ssh into any of our 
machines, and run a command on that machine.  for example, the ssh 
command would be: ssh Administrator@computerName "shutdown -s -t 0". 
That shuts down the machine.

Next we send a wake-on-lan packet to the computer, and with the correct 
bios settings (on Dell 270's), the computer will wake and begin PXE 
booting.  Through the modifications to the config.pl script, the lab 
computers specific settings are pulled from a mysql database.  They go 
through the entire install process, and then join the domain, ready to 
be used.

We have it working for some computers right now, via some commands I 
have written, but by the time I am done with things, we'll be able to 
reinstall a whole lab, or individual computer by the click of a button 
on a web page.

I am working on documenting the whole process I have gone through on our 
internal wiki, but I'd be happy to post the process to Unattended's wiki 
as soon we get all the kinds worked out.

I hope that helps.

Adam


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