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When the jobs are complete, the JobStatus property value will be “Successful” if the job completed

successfully or “Failed” if an error occurred while executing the request. If the job failed, the Message

property on the returned DCIM_OSDConcreteJob instance will contain more detailed error information

on the cause of the failure.

For the Lifecycle Controller version of the OS Deployment Profile there is only one instance of a job

generated by various method invocations, and it will persist until the next method that generates a job

is invoked. The job must complete before another method that generates a job can be called

successfully. This is unchanged from the Lifecycle Controller 1.2 for OS Deployment.

Invoke enumerate DCIM_OSDConcreteJob instance with the following syntax:

EXAMPLE:

winrm e cimv2/root/DCIM/DCIM_OSDConcreteJob

-u:[USER] -p:[PASSWORD]

-r:https://[IPADDRESS]/wsman:443

-SkipCNCheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic

OUTPUT:

The enumeration will return the instances of OSDConcreteJob as shown:

DCIM_OSDConcreteJob

DeleteOnCompletion = false

InstanceID = DCIM_OSDConcreteJob:1

JobName = UnpackAndShare

JobStatus = Failed

Message = Installation not supported for the selected operating system

MessageID = OSD10

Name = UnpackAndShare

11.3.6 Boot to Network ISO

The BootToNetworkISO() method can be used to boot the target system to a bootable ISO image

located on a CIFS or NFS share. The ISO image is attached to the host system as an emulated USB CD-

ROM storage device. By default the ISO will be attached for around 18 hrs after which it will be

detached automatically. An optional parameter ExposeDuration can be used to specify a time less than

18 hrs if the ISO needs to be detached sooner.

Invoke BootToNetworkISO() via NFS share with the following syntax:

[NFS_IPADDRESS]: This is the IP address of the location of the ISO image.

[/NFS/OSISO]: This is the directory path to the ISO image.

[NFS_Username]: This is the username to the IP address of the ISO image.

[NFS_Password]: This is the corresponding password to the username containing the ISO image.