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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Look at using the bless command. You can set specific netboot servers that way. You can make a self service policy or a trigger policy that would run a script or command that would reboot the machines to a specified netboot server, and it will even work across subnets. An example would be:</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">/usr/sbin/bless --netboot --server <url></font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Probably have to run that as admin, so probably need to sudo it, or run it as a root script.</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Then you can set policies to change servers whenever you need to, or however you would want to configure it.</font> </p>
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<br>___________________________<BR>Thomas Larkin<BR>TIS Department<BR>KCKPS USD500<BR><a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a><BR>blackberry: 913-449-7589<BR>office: 913-627-0351<BR><BR><BR><BR><br><br>>>> "Criss  Myers" <CMyers@uclan.ac.uk> 10/15/08 5:26 AM >>><br> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Help pls chaps,</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Background - </font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">I have 2 netboot servers running a Casper netinstall image for imaging my macs, the image is load balanced between the 2 servers, i.e it has the same ID and is the same netinstall image. It is set as the default image on both servers.</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">I have created these 2 servers in JSS as default servers, to use the default image.</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Problem / solution -</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">I have now created a diskless netboot image that i would like to boot my clients to temporarily, so i would like to override the default netboot sever in a policy</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">I have create a new netboot set in the JSS, to use specific image for Interl/x86,</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">I have then create a policy to reboot the macs to the netboot server, and then used the "override default settings for policy" and chosen my new netboot config as the neboot server.</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Effect -</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">the mac reboots from the default netboot image on the server and tries to re-image, </font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Any ideas how i go about doing this?</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Regards</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Criss</font> </p>
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Criss Myers<br>Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)<br>Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5<br>LIS Business Support Team<br>Library 301<br>University of Central Lancashire<br>Preston PR1 2HE<br>Ex 5054<br>01772 895054<br><br>
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