Use one Deploy Studio server with images on many servers

Mar 03, '09 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: applebit

I am jumping on board the DeployStudio train, and with multiple sites to support, I ran into the issue of how to use one master Deploy Studio server, but host the images at each of the sites (especially the WAN locations).

The solution I came up with was simple. When Deploy Studio wants to mount the images volume (via AFP), I just have a preflight script that mounts the volume based on which location (based on subnet) the computer is being imaged at. For instance, our Deploy Studio is on our fiber network, but our satellite site is on cable. When the computer netboots and DeployStudio Runtime is launched, it connects up to the Deploy Studio server (again, hosted on the fiber network).

A preflight script will mount the correct AFP mount prior to imaging the computer. We are basing this on our subnets, but your mileage may vary. Hope this helps those other network administrators going through the same struggles. I have other thoughts on using one image name (with multiple images), but I'll save that for another hint.

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