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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Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> Network adapters -> select the NIC ->
Properties -> Advanced:
Enable PME -> Enabled
Wake On Link Settings -> OS Controlled
Wake On Settings -> Wake On Magic Packet.
13.2 Scheduled deployment within one subnet
When the scheduled time comes, Acronis OS Deploy Server sends out magic packets according to the
predefined list of MAC addresses. (A magic packet is a packet that contains 16 contiguous copies of
the receiving NIC's Ethernet address.) The targets wake, boot into Acronis Snap Deploy Agent from
the Acronis PXE Server and connect to the deploy server. When all (or some, depending on your
choice) targets connect, the deploy server starts multicasting.
Scheduled deployment within one subnet
Steps:
1. Install Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console and Acronis License Server. Import licenses to
the license server. Install Acronis OS Deploy Server and Acronis PXE Server.
2. Make sure that Wake on LAN is enabled on the target computers. If you cannot or do not wish to
use Wake on LAN on some or all of the target computers, you will have to boot them into Acronis
Snap Deploy Agent manually before the scheduled time comes.
3. Create bootable media with Acronis Master Image Creator.
4. Configure and image the master system.
5. Create and save a deployment template.
6. Create a list of target MAC addresses. This can be a plain text file:
; comment
00-01-23-45-67-1A ; comment
02-01-23-45-67-1B
7. Configure Acronis PXE Server:
- upload Acronis Snap Deploy Agent (to boot the targets into the agent before deployment)
- set Booting from HDD as the default boot menu item (to boot the targets into the deployed
OS after the deployment)
- set up a reasonable timeout so that the OS can start automatically.
8. Connect to the Acronis OS Deploy Server and click Scheduled Deployment on the sidebar.
9. Import or type in the list of target MAC addresses.