help with netboot override

[Bukira]

Help pls chaps,

Background -

I have 2 netboot servers running a Casper netinstall image for imaging my macs, the image is load balanced between the 2 servers, i.e it has the same ID and is the same netinstall image. It is set as the default image on both servers.

I have created these 2 servers in JSS as default servers, to use the default image.

Problem / solution -

I have now created a diskless netboot image that i would like to boot my clients to temporarily, so i would like to override the default netboot sever in a policy

I have create a new netboot set in the JSS, to use specific image for Interl/x86,

I have then create a policy to reboot the macs to the netboot server, and then used the "override default settings for policy" and chosen my new netboot config as the neboot server.

Effect - the mac reboots from the default netboot image on the server and tries to re-image,

Any ideas how i go about doing this?

Regards

Criss Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
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[tlarkin]

Look at using the bless command. You can set specific netboot servers that way. You can make a self service policy or a trigger policy that would run a script or command that would reboot the machines to a specified netboot server, and it will even work across subnets. An example would be:

/usr/sbin/bless --netboot --server <url>

Probably have to run that as admin, so probably need to sudo it, or run it as a root script.

Then you can set policies to change servers whenever you need to, or however you would want to configure it.

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