HP dc73 Altiris Deployment Solution Guide for Workstation Clients using Embedd - Page 6

2 Altiris Deployment Solution overview This chapter provides an overview of the Altiris Deployment Solution. Three basic capabilities (building blocks) are described first, followed by a description of how these capabilities can be combined to perform more advanced operations. Chapter 5, "Using Altiris Deployment Solution", describes each of these operations in detail. 2-1 Deployment Solution building blocks This section describes the three Altiris Deployment Solution building blocks upon which more advance operations are based: 1. Download to eXpress-Downloads the Embedded OS 9.xx or 10.xx image to the Deployment Server eXpress directory. 2. Capture-Creates a disk image of a client computer on the network, and store the disk image in the eXpress directory on the Altiris Deployment Server. 3. Deploy-Installs an OS image over the network from the eXpress directory to a client computer. 2-1-1 Download to eXpress With Download to eXpress, the Embedded OS 9.xx or 10.xx image (the Altiris Image) is downloaded from the HP website directly to the Deployment Server eXpress directory (see Figure 2-1). Figure 2-1 Download of Altiris image to the eXpress directory Altiris Image eXpress directory Download to eXpress The Download to eXpress details are described in Section 5-1, "Downloading an OS image to the eXpress directory." IMPORTANT: An Altiris image file will only be available for subsequent installations if it is saved under the network share eXpress directory set up when Altiris Deployment Server is installed. The directory path is typically: C:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\Images Altiris Deployment Solution overview 6