25 April 2006

Installing/Updating Aclient + custom settings with Altiris job

From the deployment console, use the remote agent installer tool, change the agent settings the way you want them, by clicking the change settings button, Add a test computer but dont click the finish button, click on export, this will export clients.rci file which holds the settings, then rename that clients_pcname.inp file
to Aclient.inp. You can do two things with the Aclient.inp.
Create a deployment job to install the Aclient using these settings by running something like
Aclient.exe aclient.inp -Install -Silent
Or if you just want to change settings and not install aclient,, create a copy job in DS
Point the file to copy to the aclient.inp
use the destination just like
settings:aclient.inp

Thx Tim.

Steve Gibson made a GPO for this, you can find more info at : Steve's site
Thx Steve

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have a look at this link.

http://www.itlm.com.au/articles/altiris/20060430/aclient1.htm

I've written a group policy to control the client.