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Ghosting machines with OM client installed
We clone our Dell desktops (Optiplex GX150, 260, 270) and laptops (Latitude 610, 640, 600) using Symantec Ghost 7.5. The machines are built up to our company standard with Windows 2000 Professional SP4 as well as a number of other applications.
We would like to include the Dell OpenManage Instrumentation in the images, however it appears that when we install the OM instrumentation on our master image, then clone the master image and deploy it to a number of test machines, management tools like IT Assistant don't recognize or see the cloned machines.
Is there a trick to incorporating the OpenManage instrumentation in a Ghost image, or would it be better to install the OM client on the machines after they have built from the clone?
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
James_Utas
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Posted June 28th, 2004 01:00
We have a similar environment: ghost 7.5, windows XP, Optiplex GX150/240/260/270 Lattitude c600/c610/d600/d800.
OMCI 7.1 will work for you on all of these machines, make sure you have configured it to use a domain account for the IAP service and also make sure you have set the correct CMI username/password for discovery on the IT Assistant discovery machine.
This all works fine for us with the exception of the bug that keeps displaying messages about the reduced hard drive/ram capacity when the first user logs in after a machine has been ghosted: http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_oms&message.id=5060 Dell has still not told us how to disable this feature (i hope they realise how many people this is big problem for)