User Guide
Table Of Contents
- System Imaging and Software Update Administration
- Contents
- About This Guide
- PartI: System Imaging Administration
- Understanding System Imaging
- Creating NetBoot and NetInstall Images
- Using System Image Utility
- Creating Images
- Understanding Workflows
- Workflow Components
- Configuring the Customize Package Selection Action
- Configuring the Define Image Source Action
- Configuring the Add Packages and Post-Install Scripts Action
- Configuring the Add User Account Action
- Configuring the Apply System Configuration Settings Action
- Configuring the Create Image Action
- Configuring the Enable Automated Installation Action
- Configuring the Filter Clients by MAC Address Action
- Configuring the Filter Computer Models Action
- Configuring the Partition Disk Action
- Assembling Workflows
- Adding Software to NetBoot and NetInstall Images
- Setting Up NetBoot Service
- Setting Up Clients to Use NetBoot and NetInstall Images
- Managing NetBoot Service
- Solving System Imaging Problems
- PartII: Software Update Administration
- Understanding Software Update Administration
- Setting Up the Software Update Service
- Managing the Software Update Service
- Manually Refreshing the Updates Catalog from the Apple Server
- Checking the Status of the Software Update Service
- Stopping the Software Update Service
- Limiting User Bandwidth for the Software Update Service
- Automatically Copying and Enabling Updates from Apple
- Copying and Enabling Selected Updates from Apple
- Removing Obsolete Software Updates
- Removing Updates from a Software Update Server
- Identifying Individual Software Update Files
- Solving Software Update Service Problems
- Glossary
- Index
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2 Creating NetBoot and NetInstall
Images
This chapter provides instructions for preparing NetBoot or
NetInstall images you can use with NetBoot service.
You can set up multiple NetBoot or NetInstall images to suit the needs of different
groups of clients or to provide copies of the same image on multiple servers to
distribute the client startup load. Using NetBoot service, you can provide a
personalized work environment for each client computer user.
Using System Image Utility
System Image Utility is a tool you use to create and customize NetBoot and NetInstall
images.
With System Image Utility, you can:
 Create NetBoot images that can be booted to the Finder.
 Create NetInstall images from a DVD or existing Mac OS X partition.
 Assemble a workflow that creates customized NetBoot and NetInstall images.
Creating Images
To create system and software images to use with NetBoot service, you use System
Image Utility.
 Creating NetBoot Images.
 Creating NetInstall Images.
Note: To create an image, you must have valid Mac OS X 10.5 image sources (either
volumes or installation DVDs). You cannot create an image of the startup disk you are
running on.
Creating NetBoot Images
You can create NetBoot images of Mac OS X that are then used to start client
computers over the network.