Avoid a hardware model filter bug in OS X Server
Oct 03, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Aaron Wyatt
Oct 03, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Aaron Wyatt
This is more of a workaround than a hint, but will hopefully save some folks the hours of annoyance I've had to deal with.
The problem can be summarized as follows: In the Server Admin application, installed with Apple's Server Admin Tools, you can manage many of Mac OS X Server's features, including Netboot and Netinstall images. Once you have created a Netinstall image, you have the option in Server Admin to specify what types of Apple hardware are allowed to boot the image over the network. I refer to these filters as hardware model type filters, though I'm not sure of their official name. Anyway, once a model type filter is set for a given Netinstall image, a workaround is required to make future edits to the same filter in the GUI.
Steps to Reproduce the bug:
The problem can be summarized as follows: In the Server Admin application, installed with Apple's Server Admin Tools, you can manage many of Mac OS X Server's features, including Netboot and Netinstall images. Once you have created a Netinstall image, you have the option in Server Admin to specify what types of Apple hardware are allowed to boot the image over the network. I refer to these filters as hardware model type filters, though I'm not sure of their official name. Anyway, once a model type filter is set for a given Netinstall image, a workaround is required to make future edits to the same filter in the GUI.
Steps to Reproduce the bug:
- Create a netinstall image.
- Edit the hardware model type filter by clicking the pencil button, then click OK, then Save.
- Try again to edit the same hardware model type filter, click Okay, then Save.
- Look at the filter a third time and the changes made in step three will not have been applied
- Toggle the Enable checkbox. Note it does not matter what state the checkbox is in, so it can be toggled to either the enabled or disabled position.
- Edit the model type filter by clicking the pencil button. Important: do not click the Save button between this step and the prior step.
- After editing, click OK, then click Save.
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