The Linux Scripting Toolkit provides
sample jobs to perform operating system (OS) imaging tasks by using
Altiris, such as capturing a copy of an installed OS (an OS image)
and deploying the image to a target server.
About this task
You might need to perform RAID configuration on the target
server before you can deploy the OS image to it. To run the
Capture
Linux Image sample job, the
Altiris Agent must first be installed
on the donor system. The
Scripting Toolkit scripted
OS installation jobs automatically install the
Altiris Agent.
Note: The Capture
Linux Image job is not supported for VMware ESX Server.
Procedure
To modify the file name and location of the captured
image, perform the following steps:
- Double-click the Capture Linux Image job.
- Select the Create Disk Image task,
and click Modify.
- Change the path and file name for the captured image.
- Click Finish to save it.
- Double-click the Deploy Linux Image job.
- Select the Distribute Disk Image task,
and click Modify.
- Change the path and file name to the same values used above
for the captured image.
- Click Finish to save the changes.
Note: - When you deploy a target server by using the Image Install job,
the image will include the Altiris Agent,
because the donor server is required to have the Altiris Agent installed.
- Because the Linux imaging
sample jobs use a sector-based imaging technique, the donor and target
servers must have identical hardware.
- Altiris RapiDeploy, which is used for the cloning jobs, does not
support cloning of multiple disks in a single pass. To work around
this issue, you can place all of the Linux partitions on a single
disk during installation by modifying the sample kickstart files to
include the –ondisk parameter in the partition
configuration part lines. Refer to the operating
system documentation for additional information.
- To specify the disk to be cloned, you must add the -d parameter,
specifying the disk number, to the command line options for the Capture
Linux Image and Deploy Linux Image jobs. For example, to clone the
operating system image on disk two, you would add: -d2 to
the command line options for the job.
- If either the capture or deploy job fails, refer to the rdeploy
log file for more information. By default, the log file
location is $AltirisInstalledPath\RDeploy\Linux\x64\rdlog\
where $AltirisInstalledPath is the fully qualified
path to the Altiris Deployment Solution directory. For example, C:\Program
Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\RDeploy\Linux\x64\rdlog\.