Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy®
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 3
- 1.2.1 Take an image of the master system (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.2 Manual deployment (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.3 Scheduled deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.4 Event-driven deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.5 Command line and scripting under Win PE (new in v 3)
- 1.2.6 Standalone deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.7 Custom Deployment (User-initiated deployment) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.8 Deployment of a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3)
- 1.2.9 Selective deployment (MAC filtering) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.10 Password protection (new in v 3)
- 1.2.11 Manage a remote computer (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.3 What else is new in v 3?
- 1.4 Supported operating systems
- 1.5 License policy
- 1.6 Upgrade to v 3
- 1.7 Technical support
- 2. Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy
- 3. Installation
- 3.1 System requirements
- 3.2 Used ports and IP addresses
- 3.3 General rules of installation
- 3.4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 3.5 Installation of Acronis License Server
- 3.6 Installation of Acronis OS Deploy Server
- 3.7 Installation and setup of Acronis PXE Server
- 3.8 Installation of Acronis WOL Proxy
- 3.9 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Agent
- 3.10 Installation of Acronis Universal Deploy
- 3.11 Extracting the Acronis Snap Deploy components
- 3.12 Using Acronis License Server
- 4. Using Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 5. Creating Acronis bootable media
- 6. Configuring PXE Server
- 7. Taking an image
- 8. Checking the master image
- 9. Deployment templates
- 9.1 Why save templates?
- 9.2 Creating templates
- 9.2.1 Master image selection
- 9.2.2 Disk/partition selection
- 9.2.3 Target disk and partition selection
- 9.2.4 User accounts
- 9.2.5 Computer names and domain/workgroup
- 9.2.6 Network settings
- 9.2.7 Security identifiers
- 9.2.8 Transferring files
- 9.2.9 Executing applications
- 9.2.10 Using Acronis Universal Deploy
- 9.2.11 Deployment options
- 9.2.12 Comments and summary
- 10. Standalone deployment
- 11. Manual deployment
- 12. Event-driven deployment
- 13. Scheduled deployment
- 14. Custom deployment mode
- 15. Command line and scripting under Win PE and Bart PE
- 16. Managing a remote computer
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Adjusting network utilization
Acronis Snap Deploy uses Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) for the multicasting.
Therefore, all the network hardware (routers and/or switches) must be IGMP-capable and correctly
configured. The specific information on configuring any particular router or switch is usually available
in the documentation, provided with the hardware.
If there is no IGMP-capable hardware (or you cannot configure it correctly) in the network, use the
Unicast data transfer mode.
MAC filtering
Acronis Snap Deploy has the ability to disable deployment on computers with specified MAC addresses.
This protects production servers and user’s systems from unfortunate events. The program can import
the access list from a text file or save the MAC addresses you type in.
Both straight (enabling) and inverse (disabling) lists are supported, but only one list can be active at
any one time.
The enabling (inclusion) list has to contain all computers that are allowed to be the deployment
targets. You can add only one MAC address if a computer has more than one network interface card.
Deployment through any network interface that is not in the list will be prohibited.
The disabling (exclusion) list has to include all computers that are not allowed to be the deployment
targets. Add all MAC addresses if a computer has more than one network interface card. Deployment
through any network interface that is not in the list will be permitted.
MAC filtering is a general option of Acronis OS Deploy Server and not a property of a
deployment template. Whenever and whatever type deployment is executed, the program
uses the access list that exists at that time. That’s why the option can be found when editing
the default options only.