User guide

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 No autostart: The Acronis loader will display the boot menu and wait for someone to select

whether to boot the operating system or one of the Acronis components.

 Start operating system: The operating system, if present on the booting machine’s hard disk,

will start after the time-out. This option is designed to make the target machine boot into the

deployed operating system after deployment. The main usage scenario is as follows.

You use this wizard to configure the PXE server for deployment on a schedule (p. 103).

You set up Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent to start automatically. After the deployment is

completed, the target machine reboots into the agent again and might be deployed by

another deployment operation. How to avoid this situation?

To ensure that the target machine boots into the deployed operating system after the

deployment, choose the Start operating system option in this step of the wizard. To

ensure that the target machine boots into the agent before the deployment, tune the PXE

server to work with your deployment server when setting up the deployment (p. 105).

Note: When booting from media, automatically start option does not apply when Acronis bootable

media loads in the UEFI mode.

5. Under Start automatically after, specify the time-out interval in seconds. For example, if you

choose to automatically start Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent, and set this parameter to 10, the

agent will launch 10 seconds after the boot menu is displayed.

6. If you are placing Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Agent on the media, specify whether the agent will

connect to a particular Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server. This setting allows you to have

multiple deployment servers that perform different functions on the same network.

To specify a deployment server, type its name or IP address in Server name/IP.

Note: Acronis bootable media uses NetBIOS networking protocol to resolve Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS

Deploy Server in a network. NetBIOS protocol uses ANSI characters for host names. So, machines that have

non-English characters in their names cannot be accessed from Acronis bootable media. If the name of the

Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server machine contains non-English characters, use the machine's

IP-address to specify it in the network.

The deployment server (along with the network settings for the agent) can also be specified

onsite (on the target machine’s side) when booting the agent. To be able to configure the agent

onsite, set up a reasonable delay before the default network settings will be applied. For details,

see “Booting the target machines” (p. 110).