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General

1. What are the system requirements for OS Deployer?
2. What operating systems can be deployed using OS Deployer?
3. What are the ports used by OS Deployer?
4. Can I capture the image of specific drives of the hard disk?
5. Where can the captured images be stored?
6. What happens when the image size is too large that it cannot be saved to a single disk?
7. Can the image be deployed to multiple systems simultaneously?
8. When deploying the image to multiple systems, will the bandwidth consumption be very high?
9. What happens if I want to deploy image to dissimilar hardware?
10. What about the other aspects of PC Life Cycle Management?

Licensing

1. How is OS Deployer licensed?
2. What operating systems come under server license and workstation license?
3. Does the OS Deploy server need a license to install?

General

1. What are the system requirements for OS Deployer?

OS Deployer for PCs components installation:

• DHCP server
• FDD, CD-R/RW drive or another drive (USB hard drive, zip drive, flash drive, etc.

• FDD, CD-ROM drive, any other drive (USB hard drive, zip drive, flash drive, etc.)
• PXE support in BIOS (if you want to boot OS Deployer components from ManageEngine PXE Server)

ManageEngine OS deploy server

• Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server /2008 Server
• Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

ManageEngine OS Deployer Management Console

• Windows NT 4.0 Server / 2000 Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server / 2008 Server
• Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
• Windows 98/Me

Operating systems for deployment**

• Vista/ Windows XP/ 2000/ NT/98/Me

**– Can deploy any OS on an x86 based system with bootable media. Server license required to deploy servers and workstation license required to deploy workstations.

Can deploy any OS on an x86 based system with bootable media. Server license required to deploy servers and workstation license required to deploy workstations.

2. What operating systems can be deployed using OS Deployer?

The following operating systems can be deployed using OS Deployer:

• MS Windows Server 2008 (TBD)
• MS Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (x86, x64)
• MS Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86, x64)
• MS Windows Small Business Server 2003
• MS Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
• MS Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions
• MS Windows 2000 Server
• MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• MS Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• MS Windows Vista Home Basic (x86, x64)
• MS Windows Vista Home Premium (x86, x64)
• MS Windows Vista Business (x86, x64)
• MS Windows Vista Ultimate (x86, x64)
• MS Windows XP Home
• MS Windows XP Professional
• MS Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• MS Windows XP Professional SP2
• MS Windows NT/4.0 Server
• MS Windows 98/Me

3. What are the ports used by OS Deployer?

The OS Deployer Server and the OS Deployer Management Console use the following ports and IP addresses for remote operation:

• UDP port: 9876
• TCP port: 9876, if port number is already in use, a random port is obtained
• IPv4 multicast address: 239.255.219.45
• OS Deployer Management Console UDP port : 9877, if busy, chose port at random
• The OSD PXE server uses UDP port: 67, 68, 69 and Broadcast address: 255.255.255.255

4. Can I capture the image of specific drives of the hard disk?

Yes, OS Deployer provides the option to image specific drives of a hard disk.

5. Where can the captured images be stored?

The images can be stored in the hard disk of the imaged computer, network share, CD, and other removable media.

6. What happens when the image size is too large that it cannot be saved to a single CD?

The image can be split and stored in multiple CDs

7. Can the image be deployed to multiple systems simultaneously?

Yes, images can be deployed to multiple computers using flexible deployment options.

8. When deploying the image to multiple systems, will the bandwidth consumption be very high?

No, using the multicast option the image is broadcast to multiple computers in bulk, thereby controlling the bandwidth.

9. What happens if I want to deploy image to dissimilar hardware?

The Universal Deploy Add-on can be used to deploy images to dissimilar hardware.

10. What about the other aspects of PC Life Cycle Management?

You can use ManageEngine Desktop Central for efficiently managing the desktops like deploying software, managing the patches and assets, applying security restrictions, managing software licenses, and so on.

Licensing

1. How is OS Deployer licensed?

OS Deployer requires separate licenses for each workstation or server that is imaged and deployed. The server and workstation licenses are priced separately.

Universal Deploy is an add-on for Servers and workstations, which are priced separately. This is required only when you try to deploy a standard image to dissimilar hardware

2. What operating systems come under server license and workstation license?

3. Does the OS Deploy server need a license to install?

No, OS Deploy Server does not require a license to install

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