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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 7.0 Common Documents - Administrator Guide

About the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Getting started Using the Dashboard Configuring the KACE SDA Setting up user accounts and user authentication Configuring security settings Preparing for deployment Managing device inventory Using labels Creating a Windows or Linux Boot Environment Managing drivers Capturing images Capturing user states Creating scripted installations Creating a task sequence Automating deployments Performing manual deployments Managing custom deployments Imaging Mac devices About the Remote Site Appliance Importing and exporting appliance components Managing disk space Troubleshooting appliance issues Updating appliance software Glossary About us Legal notices

Enable the NetBoot server

Enable the NetBoot server

You can enable the NetBoot server after you create the NetBoot image. The built-in NetBoot server enables the Mac OS X network boot process.

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On the left navigation pane, click Settings to display the Control Panel, then click General Settings to display the General Settings page.
2.
Under Default KACE Boot Environments, select a NetBoot image from the Mac OS X Intel (NetBoot) drop-down list.
Ensure that you select the appropriate image, because images for various OS X versions can appear in the list. If there is only one OS X NetBoot image available, that image is selected by default.
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TIP: When you review the details of a NetBoot image using the Boot Environment Detail page, the Default field indicates if the selected NetBoot image is a default boot environment.
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On the left navigation pane, click Settings to display the Control Panel, then click Network Settings to display the Network Settings page.
4.
Select the Enable NetBoot Server (for Mac OS X clients) check box.
Two BSDP field boxes appear.
5.
Accept the default BSDP settings and click Save.
The Mac Boot Service Discovery Protocol (BSDP) is the standard extension of the DHCP, which enables the Mac network boot process.
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From the Mac device, click the System Preferences icon, select Startup Disk, then select the appropriate KACE SDA Network to boot in to the NetBoot image and restart the OS.
The KACE SDA Imaging Utility appears.
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Enter the NetBoot password.
Capture the image.

Customize the image before capture

Customize the image before capture

You can customize the image on the source Mac device before capturing the image as a system image for deployment. You can add any non-native applications and files to the image that your standard corporate image requires.

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Add any non-native applications and files to the image before you capture the image as a system image for deployment, for example. Acrobat or Oracle® applications.
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Delete any Apple apps that you do not want to include in the system image for deployment to your corporate users, for example GuitarBand® GameCenter.
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To save space, delete the Mac OS X installer from the /Applications directory, if it exists. For example, /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app.
Capture the image as a system image for deployment.

Capture a Mac OS X image

Capture a Mac OS X image

The KACE SDA Imaging Utility enables you to capture Mac images for deployments from a device that has network booted in to the KACE SDA or the RSA.

You can capture a system image to use across multiple Mac hardware devices. Use the current version of the Mac OS image; older versions will cause an error because the certificate from Apple is no longer valid. You can change the date to a date prior to the expiry date on the device where you are creating the NetBoot environment and image.

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Boot the target device in to the NetBoot image to display the KACE SDA Imaging Utility.
2.
Double-click the KACE SDA Imaging Utility icon on the dock.
3.
Select Capture image.
4.
In Image Name, enter a name to identify the image on the appliance, such as ASR or DMG to identify the image on the KACE SDA as a Mac image.
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Select the appropriate volume to capture. Typically, the volume is Macintosh® HD.
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Select Capture Apple ASR format Image to capture the image in the Mac native image format.
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Select Start Capture.
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The capture process adds an image entry to the System Images page in the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console, and also in the Remote Site Console, if the image is captured using an RSA.
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The KACE SDA assigns an ID to each captured system image.
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TIP: Each image captured with the KACE SDA or its linked RSAs has a unique ID. This allows the appliance to keep track of all the different system images captured with the linked (KACE SDA) or remote (RSA) appliances, and to synchronize any images, as you edit them. To find out an ID of a specific system image, hover over the system image name on the System Images page. The ID appears in the bottom-left corner.
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Click OK.
The Capture Finished prompt appears, and the appliance displays the image on the System Images page.
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Select the image, then create a task sequence by assigning pre-installation and post-installation tasks. You can also add your own tasks to a shell script and run the script as a pre-installation or post-installation task.

Customize image before deployment

Customize image before deployment

You can customize the Mac OS X image using the built-in pre-installation tasks, or add your own customizations to a shell script that you run as a pre-installation task.

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On the left navigation pane, click Deployments, then click System Images to display the Systems Images page.
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Select the appropriate Mac OS X image to display the System Image Detail page.
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In the Installation Plan section, under Available Pre-installation Tasks, move any tasks that you want to run to the Run Pre-installation Tasks section.
You can add other tasks, such as collecting the device name. You can also edit any tasks on the System Image Detail page, if needed. After you finish adding and editing tasks, deploy the image.
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