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Chapter 6. Real world deployment scenarios 131
Draft Document for Review November 15, 2007 3:27 pm 4372ch06.fm
4. You could download it directly to the computer you were accessing the Tivoli
Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment server from. This would allow you
to use it as a staging point.
5. You can export to a directory on the Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS
Deployment server. This may be the option you use if you have physically
separate environments and need to load the file onto a removable device to
move it. Or you had another tool that was going to do the physical move for
you.
6. You can move the file directly to another machine that is running the Tivoli
Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Web extension, RbAgent. With this
option, if the importing system is accessible in the network you are connected
to, you could move the file directly to that computer.
Import
1. At the importation end, it is almost a reverse of the export.
2. Navigate to the OS Deployment screen.
3. Select one of the following: the system profiles screen, the software
deployments screen, or the deployment scheme screen.
4. At the bottom of that screen select RAD Import. You are presented with the
following three options for the location of the .RAD file for import:
5. The local computer you are working from.
6. The Import directory of the importing server. You may recall that one of the
export options was to export to the importing server.
7. The IP address of a server running the Web extension where the file is
located.
8. Which ever option you choose, the next step is to identify the .RAD file at the
location you selected for importation. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS
Deployment will then analyze the file and import the parts of it that it requires.
Remember that it is just the files that are not already stored on the server that
it will import.