Performing an image based deployment

Use the tools provided by the Toolkit to capture and deploy a system configuration.

About this task

The tools for capturing and deploying an existing configuration require Altiris Agent to be installed on the system that is being captured. Altiris Agent is installed automatically as part of the Scripting Toolkit operating system installation jobs. If the donor system operating system was not installed through the Scripting Toolkit, you might need to install Altiris Agent manually.

Procedure

To capture and deploy a system configuration, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Altiris Deployment Solution console, and navigate to the IBM ServerGuide Toolkit, Windows Edition 9.6 > Combined Deployment Solutions > Image-based Deployment folder.
  2. Run the Capture RAID Configuration and Windows Image job against the donor system.
  3. When that job completes, run the Deploy RAID Configuration and Windows Image job against the target system.
Parent topic: Creating deployment solutions from sample jobs