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1.3.6 New: E-mail notifications about deployment
When using the command-line mode (p. 10), you can set up e-mail notifications about the result of
each deployment operation.
Scenario
In Scenario 1 or Scenario 2 described in “Command-line mode and scripting under WinPE” (p. 10), the
administrator also wants to receive e-mail notifications about deployment.
The administrator includes in the deployment script a command that sets up the parameters of the
e-mail notifications, such as the administrator’s e-mail address and the parameters of the mail
server.
An e-mail notification is sent after each deployment command. Each notification contains the MAC
address and IP address of the corresponding machine and whether the deployment has been
successful.
1.3.7 New: Compatibility with Acronis True Image, Acronis Backup
& Recovery 10, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 backups
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can use as a master image a disk-level backup created by the Acronis True
Image, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, or Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 product family.
1.3.8 New: Support for multiple network adapters
A machine license is bound to the machine’s network adapter (also known as network interface card,
NIC).
If the machine has more than one network adapter, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 ensures that only one
license is assigned to the machine. No extra license will be consumed if you add or remove a network
adapter.
To make sure that only one license is assigned to the machine, do not remove all network adapters at
once.
When using the Wake-on-LAN functionality for the machine, the software sends a special packet,
called the magic packet, to all network adapters of the machine.
1.3.9 Multicast TTL and network bandwidth throttling
Deployment configuration has a parameter that specifies time to live (TTL) for multicast packets. By
using this setting, you can limit the distribution of multicast packets via gateways.
By setting the permitted bandwidth, you can limit the network usage during deployment.
1.3.10 New: Falling back to unicast
To make deployment to multiple machines faster, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 multicasts the contents of
the master image (the deployment stream) across the network. This way, deployment can run
simultaneously on all machines even though the deployment stream is sent only once.